Synthesizer tutorial for beginners
The link below will take you in a new tab to a synthesizer tutorial for beginners that I wrote some time ago for the SAE online magazine. Using the Reaktor® development environment, we build a very simple subtractive software synthesizer that has an oscillator, a filter and a volume envelope.
Synth specifications
Subtractive Mini-Synthesizer
- 1 oscillator (sawtooth)
- 1 filter (selectable between highpass, bandpass and lowpass, adjustable cutoff or center frequency and resonance)
- 1 volume envelope (ADSR)
And this is how the user interface of the finished synth looks like:
