The Musical Art of Synthesis

Preface

Most musical instruments are locked into sounding a certain way. In a blindfolded listening test, you could identify a piano from a guitar. Most of the time, you could also tell if an instrument is a synthesizer; but because of the wide-ranging sonic palette available in synthesis, you might not be able to guess correctly. Perhaps it sounds like a gentle breeze or like the crickets on a summer evening. It could sound like a robot from the future or a flute from medieval times. There are synths that sound like electric guitars or fog horns. Synths are instruments that don’t necessarily require musical ability in the traditional sense, but when you explore further, you’ll discover that they have a soul in the same way that a Stradivarius ...