Synthesis: Learning the Language of Sound
Can You Play What You Hear?
By Professor Loudon Stearns, Berklee College of Music
Teaching and studying synthesis builds sonic awareness and essential skills for players and producers.
As a professor who teaches music production at Berklee College of Music and Berklee Online, I have grown more and more sure that an understanding of synthesis is essential for keyboardists and producers alike. Synthesizers are a constant presence in contemporary music, and even when we hear organic or acoustic sounds, they’re often performed within software that uses synthesizer parameters to control or modify them. Most importantly, though, learning synthesis gives us a language for timbre and a way to understand sound.
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