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http://www.synthesizer-cookbook.com/id5.html has anybody checked this out yet? comments?  worth buying? nurb

><http://www.synthesizer-cookbook.com/id5.html>http://www.synthesizer-cookbook.com/id5.html
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>has anybody checked this out yet? comments?  worth buying?

This cookbook is very much oriented towards the beginning synthesist. 
The patches are all very simple and use a standard template: 2 VCO, 1 
LFO, 1 LPF (either 4 pole or 2 pole), 1 VCA, and 2 EGs (for LFP and 
VCA). You don't need a modular synth to recreate any of these 
patches, you can do them all on a Pro-One or MS-20. Using a standard 
template to work with any synth would normally be quite problematic, 
but the author has thoughtfully included a calibration section (and 
included an audio CD) so you can figure out which knob setting 
responds to 1.4 kHz on your filter (for example). Someone with a 
modest modular synth would likely go much beyond the simplicity of 
these patches.

So is it worth buying? Depends on who you are.

Collector of all things synth: yes.
Beginning synthesist: yes.
Intermediate synthesist: maybe.
Advanced synthesist: no.

A better read for the more 'advanced' synthesists (Which I asume most MOTM users are, 
afterall it is not often that an absolute beginner stubles across an MOTM system as the 
first synth.....) is the following: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nordmodularbook/
nm_book_toc.html

Eventhough it is based on the Clavia Nord Modular, the principles and theory in this book 
go much deeper and broader than the above cookbook.

Koos

 --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Scott Juskiw <scott@...> wrote:
>
> ><http://www.synthesizer-cookbook.com/id5.html>http://www.synthesizer-
cookbook.com/id5.html

> >
> >has anybody checked this out yet? comments?  worth buying?
> 
> This cookbook is very much oriented towards the beginning synthesist. 
> The patches are all very simple and use a standard template: 2 VCO, 1 
> LFO, 1 LPF (either 4 pole or 2 pole), 1 VCA, and 2 EGs (for LFP and 
> VCA). You don't need a modular synth to recreate any of these 
> patches, you can do them all on a Pro-One or MS-20. Using a standard 
> template to work with any synth would normally be quite problematic, 
> but the author has thoughtfully included a calibration section (and 
> included an audio CD) so you can figure out which knob setting 
> responds to 1.4 kHz on your filter (for example). Someone with a 
> modest modular synth would likely go much beyond the simplicity of 
> these patches.
> 
> So is it worth buying? Depends on who you are.
> 
> Collector of all things synth: yes.
> Beginning synthesist: yes.
> Intermediate synthesist: maybe.
> Advanced synthesist: no.
>