Electronic Musician has published a useful article called Going Beyond Presets, with five top Sound Designers offering tips for getting the most of your synths.
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, there were probably fewer than 20 synthesizers on the market, all costing in the tens of thousands of dollars. Today, life is good: There are hundreds of electronic musical instruments available, both virtual and hardware-based, employing a wide variety of synthesis and sampling technologies, and costing somewhere between nothing and a few thousand dollars. Yet, with this embarrassment of riches lying at our metaphorical (and, occasionally, literal) feet, most people barely do more than choose a preset closest to their needs at the moment.
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