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Learn how Analog synths fit into your modern music production workflow in this amazing tutorial for ALL audio producers.

In a world before computers and virtual instruments and long before MIDI, electronic music was made with analog modular synthesizers, with real 3-dimensional knobs, faders, and switches. Sounds were constructed by routing electricity from module to module with patch cords and turning potentiometers to sculpt sound and music real time. This was an awesomely creative period in the history of music. Composers/performers, like Morton Subotnick and The Electronic Art Ensemble, stood before their vast arrays of analog synths and towering sound systems performing otherworldly atmospheres of sound that to this this day are unmatched in their expression and primal audio pyrotechnics. These amazing synths were not controlled with your typical B&W keyboards that permeate today’s bleak controller landscape. Rather, they were triggered by “Touch Activated Voltage Sources” and “Multiple Arbitrary Function Generators”. It was an exciting time. But all things must pass...

189 minutes - 59 Videos

Chapter 1: Using an Analog Modular Hardware Synthesizer

Section 1: An Introduction to Analog Synthesis
Chapter 2: Waves, Envelopes, and Filters in Moog Modular V
Section 2: Analog Synthesizer Modules
Section 3: Controlling and Analog Modular Synthesizer

Chapter 2: Waves, Envelopes, and Filters in Moog Modular V

Section 4: Moog Modular V Waveforms
Section 5: Envelops and VCAs
Section 6: Using Voltage Control Filters

Chapter 3: More About Filters and FM Synthesis in Logic ES1 and ES2

Section 7: Filters in ES1
Section 8: FM Synthesis in ES2