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.
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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 just downloaded and played with the app for the last half hour.
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