Nord User Forum

Last month I got myself the Nord Lead A1 since it is supposedly easier to program than the L4. After spending some time on it I still think it's pretty complicated to get it to make decent sounds and sometimes I get great sounds without knowing how I did it.

So the question is: can anyone recommend a book, youtube, or website that can put me through the paces of synth programming. I've done some research but there's so much out there I don't know what's good and what's not.

I mainly want to get 70s 80s moog sounds etc, not interested in techno/house.

Hi Shark, since you are Italian I suggest you the videos from Enrico Cosimi called "Giro del Sintetizzatore in 80 giorni" http://audio.accordo.it/article.do?id=39123 they start from the basic concepts and show them applied to the Mini Moog and other synths, easy to replicate the concepts explained in the first videos on the Nord AL1 too.

Grazie Max!

SOS magazine has an excellent collection of articles called Synth Secrets which covers all sorts of interesting topics.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

Hello Shark, Im a beginner to synths and i learnt a lot from these videos, i hope they're useful for you, too. greetings!

New York School of Synthesis (Part 1/3)


Synthesizer Boot Camp (Part 1/5)


The Fundamentals of Synthesizer Programming

Sound on Sound is a great resource, and I have had the articles linked by Mr. G bookmarked for a long time. They are not light reading, but are a great reference.