Introduction to Sound Synthesis

Some quite fun and interesting old videos from the 80’s, explaining the basics of sound synthesis using analog and digital synths from that era:

• Introduction to Synthesis (Retro 80′s View) » Synthtopia (part 1)
• Introduction to Synthesis (Retro 80′s View) » Synthtopia (part 2)
• Introduction to Synthesis (Retro 80′s View) » Synthtopia (part 3)

And a shorter video explaining how to quickly and easily create sounds in a (analog) synth.

Another nice post by Craig Anderton on various Ways to Exploit Synth and Sampler Oscillators.

A nice collection of videos and films about electronic music can be found here.

I’ll try to keep updating this post with any new (video, audio and text) references I find over the net… let me know of any you find yourselves.

MATLAB GUI Tutorial – For Beginners

A nice tutorial on developing GUIs in MATLAB (using MATLAB GUI editor, GUIDE):

MATLAB GUI Tutorial – For Beginners | blinkdagger.

At the end of the article there are other more advanced/specific tutorials on GUIDE:

MATLAB GUI Tutorial – Slider
MATLAB GUI Tutorial – Pop-up Menu
MATLAB GUI Tutorial – Plotting Data to Axes
MATLAB GUI Tutorial – Button Types and Button Group
MATLAB GUI Tutorial – A Brief Introduction to handles
MATLAB GUI Tutorial – Sharing Data among Callbacks and Sub Functions
Video Tutorial: GUIDE Basics
More GUI Tutorial Videos From Doug Hull

 

Learned in 60 Seconds: Intro to Free Synthesis Tool SuperCollider

Create Digital Music » Learned in 60 Seconds: Intro to Free Synthesis Tool SuperCollider.

The crisis of credit visualized

A quite instructional tutorial on the current economic crisis, so well put that even an engineering PhD can understand! 😉