People start paying attention to the parameters themselves, rather than the sound – you know, getting ocd on these attack times and knob clocky clocks (I’m talking about the ‘resonance at 2 o’clock’, ‘cutoff at 4:20pm’, ‘sawtooth mix at noon’, et cetera, it’s just fucking nonsense). A possible partnership with an educational institution? College-level academic lessons on sound design or electronic music history?īut is all the mathematical stuff really necessary? The biggest problem with most books and tutorials, in my opinion, is that they sprinkle you with technical information, bake you a mathematical soufflé and bathe it in a sauce of visual parameters. More advanced lessons or links to where customers could learn more. Lessons on basic integration in a daw environment… cc#s, sysex, MIDI, etc… if their target market is beginners using plugins or their first hardware synth, it would be very beneficial.įor the videos, have a person talking that you can see, hopefully using visual learning aids… staring at a blank screen while listening to guy talk in monotone is uninteresting. More terminology, history (behind synth techniques, artists who first implemented them, etc), more science (waveform parts, freq, harmonics, overtones, waveshaping, crossfading, filter poles, diff types of noise, percussion sounds, etc.)Ī built in oscilloscope for the more advanced lessons. Might I add that this app is an amazing idea, and could easily become a revolutionary product with some tweaks.Ī few ideas (I’m a teacher by day, so hope this helps):Ī more academic approach. Not so much for modular guys, people into alternate forms of synthesis, guys looking for the history and hard science behind making sounds, or guys looking to emulate current sonic trends (this won’t show you how to specifically cater to a genre’s aesthetics or emulate your favorite artist)… My humble verdict: Good for beginners to intermediate guys, and people who want to train their ears. While looking through the paid lessons I didn’t have access to… I saw a few lessons on delays, some advanced modulation, and placing a preset within a virtual space (soundstage, reverb, whatever you wanna call it). The basics are covered, but the challenges are all on parroting back a synth preset based on A/B listening skills/trial and error. The app seems to be more about training your ears than actually learning synthesis techniques. It might not be very educational for the real synth nerds out there. It’s fun to use, minus the monotonous pace of the videos…. For beginners, this is probably an amazing app. Finished all the demo lessons/challenges/tests with a perfect score on the first try… skipped a lot of the pop up videos though… Hooray me!!! lolįirst impressions: the app is good but VERY thourough/redundant… depending on your knowledge of synthesis and how good your ears are. I've been squeezing in minutes here and there and am constantly writing and recording little ideas, but I never turn it into anything.I just downloaded and played with the app for the last half hour. And any music that used to be up way back then no longer is. My music: Since I started this company almost 10 years ago, I haven't completed a full song. It would be fun to recreate other users' music. Way down the road, when we have way more users, I'd like to give everyone the option to opt their music into an "endless dungeon" as you call it. That being said, I do like the user-generated idea. And while I have no doubt that I could figure it out, I kind of don't want to contribute to the Pandora's box of robots-writing-music. It would be way more complex to write an algorithm that randomly writes decent-sounding music than it is to randomly generate a synth patch. The one thing holding me back is the idea of randomly generating music. So the same concept would make sense for BB. Cool idea! We're adding a randomized challenge feature to Syntorial in the upcoming 2.0 update.
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