A basic look at the controls commonly found on most synthesizers. Oscillator, Filter, Amplifier, Envelope, and Low Frequency Oscillator(LFO) are explained.

An explanation of how additive synthesis works, with demonstrations.

This lecture digs deeper in to the controls available for manipulating how an oscillator creates sound.

A deeper explanation of how to use filters to control the sound of a synthesizer (or sampler).

An in-depth look at envelopes. Includes demonstrations of utilizing envelopes to manipulate the sound of a synthesizer (or sampler).

This lecture explains how a LFO works, and how to route and manipulate the LFO controls.

Let's take all of the concepts covered thus far and create new synthesizer patches from scratch!

In this lecture I'll define what makes a sampler different from a synthesizer, as well as take a basic look at how samplers function.

A demonstration of how to load your own samples in to a sampler instrument.

A demonstration of how to record and create your own original samples to use within a sampler instrument.

This lecture is a more in-depth look at how to assign samples to various MIDI controls.

Now that our samples are recorded, loaded, and mapped to our MIDI controller, let's see how else the sample can be manipulated by the instrument.

An introduction to what MIDI is, and how to use it.

Basic recording techniques using a MIDI controller plugged in to your Digital Audio Workstation(DAW).

An example of how a MIDI sequence can be created without using a MIDI controller. You can use your mouse to add notes to a sequence offline.

This is the final MIDI lecture for the course. It's a little bit of review, and a little bit of new concepts.

Congratulations for making it to the end of the course! This is a final review of all of the material covered in this course.