Jason Timothy has published a really useful post on his web The Music Software Training Blog talking about the basics of synthesis, explaining several types and the main elemetns of synthesis.
“I wanted to give you some basic concepts to synthesis that you can quickly use to better your sound design abilities. My hope is that I am able to help people who haven’t yet had the ability to grasp it quite yet. I will do my best to share what I understand in a way that is easily digestible. This stuff has taken me years to understand. With any luck, this will shave a lot of time off of your learning curve. Feel free to correct me if you find more useful or more simplistic definitions for the following terms.”
Main Topics
- Waveforms
- Envolventes
- Oscillators
- Additive Synthesis
- Subtractive Synthesis
- FM Synthesis
- Other forms of Synthesis