learning synthesis. advice needed

[felipescalador12]

So I play guitar and in the last months been learning piano. I want to produce electronic music and I bought dcam synth squad but I find it extremely complex and I dont understand anything although those presets are awesome.

So I was wandering how do you learn synthesis? Trial and error? teachers? hmm

any help is greatly apreciated

[oddstep]

trial and error, one dial at a time. just had a look at the synth... its a lot to take in. the strobe looks the simplest to understand. like a roland sh101. a bit. maybe. filters are probably the best place to start, then amp envelopes, then mod envelopes, then lfos.

[ark]

This site has more information than you probably ever wanted to know about how synthesis works.

[felipescalador12]

This site has more information than you probably ever wanted to know about how synthesis works.

holy sh!!!! awesome share..

[Mage2k]

This series of articles is excellent and will teach you about synthesis from first principles on up: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

Edit: Nice! Just checked that synth.tk link and I see that they have all of the Synth Secrets articles linked there.