Course, podcast, audiobook on sound and digital audio

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Hi all. The story is simple: I fell in love with the Animoog app about a year ago. While I’m an engineer, I don’t know much about sound and audio concepts such as enveloppe, LFO, and similar topics.

Are there learning resources you’d recommend? A course, a podcast, an audiobook? Free or not (ideally free of course :wink:.

I searched a bit and here’s what I found:
https://www.coursera.org/course/digitalsounddesign
https://www.coursera.org/course/audiomusicengpart1
http://www.soundonsound.com/podcast
Reading (no audio, which is kind of a turn off):
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov99/articles/synthsecrets.htm

Some of those look interesting, but I suspect that there is more to what my simple Google query provided. Thanks for any feedback! – Alex

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Podcast, audiobook, digital, Animoog, Thumbjam ??? What a strange language.

I would have some free advice on envelopes and LFO but that would involve real knobs, 15 inches woofers and some reading. Yeay! Yeay! I know, such a turn-off. I wish I could help.

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As an engineer, you should know how graphs work. You should also know how sound works at a simple level. Further you should know that reading is worth it, especially that last link you posted. Read that and you will be good.

Another thing we engineers are good at is try storming and learning by trial and error. If you know Animoog, then you know the answers to many of your questions. Did you purchase Filtatron as well?

To get you started, check out the http://www.moogmusic.com site, all of their products have demos, and really In depth manuals. Read. Another good resource that contains a bit of the information you seek is here in video form: http://moogmusic.com/products/apps/animoog-0#demos-tab

Further to that, Moog sells videos, that are probably online that have Bob Moog himself explain the concepts at a very understandable level & pace.

Ultimately, the combination of all of the above will truly get you learning. Ultimately, applying the knowledge in practice, like follow what you read by trying, will ram it into your brain quick. It’s really a very simple group of very simple systems that make a synth. It’s like fluid dynamics, applied mechanics, or thermodynamics, only easier.

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Filtatron! Thanks Alien8… that’s a great idea. I bought Filtatron a long time ago but dismissed it since I wasn’t having as much fun as with Animoog. But as a tool to learn digital audio concepts, you’re damn right, Filtatron seems to have most of what I would need. Live testing of one parameter at a time, included manual with the textual descriptions of what I am trying to understand, etc. I’ll clearly try to spend time on it.

I also already started to look at some Moog-provided video. So much I want to do, so little time! Thanks for providing excellent feedback :slight_smile: Cheers – Alex