10/07/2021
What do I want from a synthesizer?
1. An ability to make interesting, thought provoking, cool and fun music !
2. Ability to somewhat easily (relative to other synthesizer models) perform some, if not all this music, live! At least an ability, I mean, I can play a whole instrumental track live, at times on an MPC, other times I need more tracks layered on top each other, than just one live take on one track for every sound being played... So yeah, "perform"!
3. Ability, to LEARN about music and sound, it's qualities and attributes...
4. Ability to create a great sound and know how to explain and express what it took to make this sound... On a rather "technical vocabulary" note ~ not only the emotional picture (which is also nice)
5. Hopefully at some point I will be able to predict what the sound will actually sound like before I make any adjustments to any parameters the synthesizer has, as it all SHOULD follow a certain order, I mean the actual sound's synthesis/creation (example: turning this k**b clockwise will make it louder and it's called volume!)
6. Do all synthesizers sound the same and produce the same sound/tone when the parameters altered/adjusted are equal between the synthesizers and all other parameters are equal? If not why not?
7. I want to be able to reason a sound, like think it up and be able to trace reasons for choosing it's one quality over another, in order to recreate what it feels like... I need to have enough knowledge to know in advance what I need to adjust on it, for my instrument to make the sound I am looking for...