Synthesizer books

The goal of this page is to provide a bibliography of synthesis-related literature or other educational materials. Basic categories include but are not limited to those below. A long-term objective is to provide brief descriptions and perhaps even table of contents for each work.

Bibliography and Reading Materials
Excerpted from "Babaluma's" post:

There are loads of great web sources available for free. for starters try the Sound On Sound magazine "Synth Secrets" article series, available here:

http://www.soundonsound.com/search?url=%2Fsearch&Keyword=%22synth+secr ets%22&Words=All&Summary=Yes

Or the Clavia Nord Lead manual here (relates to all synths though):

http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nordmodularbook/nm_book_toc.html

Also, you can find copies of the Serge Gold book here:

http://www.carbon111.com/sergebook.zip

And the ARP 2600 manual online for free here:

http://www.guitarfool.com/ARP2600.html

Sam Ecoff also has some great free tutorials here:

http://www.samecoff.com/works.html#Tex

The Buchla Music Easel manual is also a great read here:

http://www.wavemakers-synth.com/buchla/PaMtEO.zip

If you're really hard core, you'll hunt down a copy of Allen Strange's "Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, Controls" which is by far the best text I have ever come across dealing with modular synthesis. If you can't find an old hard copy you can download a .pdf from the publishers for about $15 here:

https://ebooks.primisonline.com/cgi/showebook.cgi?isbn=0390684635

Another great reference which you'll probably only find second hand is the Roland's "The Synthesizer" boxed set of four books.

Digisound Modular Synthesis manual found here:

http://www.digisound80.co.uk/digisound/other_documents/files/Guide_to_ Synthesis.pdf Another great online resource is Rob Hhordijk's website, here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhordijk/Proto/Index.htm