electronic music tutorials

A small tutorial, with a commentary in French, explaining how to program the basic functions of the EMS Synthi AKS: use three oscillators modulate OSC1 and OSC2 by the oscillator 3 as LFO, insert them in the envelope.

Un petit tutorial avec un commentaire en français expliquant comment programmer les fonctions de base de l’Ems Synthi Aks : utiliser les trois oscillateurs, moduler l’osc1 et l’osc2 par l’oscillateur 3 en tant que LFO, les insérer dans l’enveloppe.

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This is a quick overview of using the Combinator in Reason 4. 

You may also want to check out the video below, which looks at Combinator Modulation Routing in Reason 4, and the resources listed below. Read more…

Lovecapacitor shows his secrets for synthesizing a deep kick drum in Ableton Live. 

He uses two oscillators in Operator, tuned to 49 HZ & 73.4 HZ, snappy envelopes, a little compression and lo-pass filtering and gets a great kick. 

via Oliver Chesler

Sebastian Tomczak (Little Scale) has put together a fantastic tutorial on how to prep samples and create LSDJ kits.

LSDJ is an app designed to turn a Game Boy/Game Boy Color into a full-fledged music workstation.

To create your own sample kits for LSDJ, you’ll need several apps:

• Bias PEAK (5.2)
• Apple QuickTime Pro (7.55)
• LSDJ Patcher (5)

Creative Synth is a labor of love of Darwin Grosse and a small but dedicated group of writer/musicians. It focuses on modular hardware and software, and getting the most out of synthesizers.

There are tutorials on many of the major synth platforms, along with opinion pieces and columns.

There is an excellent Reaktor tutorial, along with an overview of Reaktor 3. There is a column on Ableton Live. Other interesting sections cover synth building with Max and Buzz, and programming Absynth.