Club-Wizardry : a Club Music Website project (in progress)

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Hello dear nauts,

i will extend lowend101 and will write here (progressively) only the synthesis part from a full website “Club-Wizardry” covering most of topics.

Club-Wizardry Project

The writing of the Synthesis Course (initially under the name : Let’s Get Kraken) will be in Produce > Synthesis

The Website content will be divided in 11 Main Topics subdivided in multiple categories…

RELEASE
LIFESTYLE
CULTURE
EQUIPMENT
DISCOVERY
PRODUCE (Synthesis will be part of that one)
PUBLISH
PROMOTE
VISUALS
PERFORM
CONNECT

Lowend101 will be into an Archive Section, but accessible.
i will gives the link when it’s done.

The Progression should be regular. When I have 9 Articles by those main Topics I will probably make the project public. The project could (at some point) be converted as an iPhone/android app or an eBook I don’t know for now. I have my goals with that I keep for me. But you can enjoy it for free for a long period I think. There will be a lot of cosmetics and organization changes because it’s in progress and in beta stage.

That way I will enjoy to write the Synth stories as article (more digest) in the culture section of the website. If I succeed to get auth on pictures and stuff…

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Good luck with this, looking forward to seeing it unspool. Do you want just technical corrections or also more conventional edits (spelling, grammar, phrasing)? Do you want them in this thread visible to all, or sent by DM?

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Introduction

Sound synthesis has long been an experimental field, initially aiming to replicate real acoustic instruments such as organs, pianos, basses, guitars, violins, brass, and other orchestral instruments. Early attempts largely fell short, but they laid the groundwork for significant advancements.

An old exemple of cookbook :

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The Evolution of Synthesizers

Synthesizers truly became distinct instruments when musicians began creating unique sounds, sparking the development of entirely new musical genres and styles. However, achieving realistic emulation of acoustic instruments remains challenging due to the nuanced behavior and expressiveness of live performance. Physical modeling synthesis, paired with innovative MIDI controllers like MPE devices and the Akai EWI series, has pushed the boundaries of realism, offering composers and producers powerful tools while still requiring skilled instrumentalists to bring musical parts to life with soul and groove.

Synthesizers: Sci-Fi for the Ears

I have a deep appreciation for synthesizers and electronic music, likening the experience to watching a Sci-Fi movie. I particularly enjoy unique synthetic sounds, genre fusion, and hybrid timbres that blend synthetic and acoustic elements to create something fresh and organic. Inharmonic sounds and micro-tonal music are also areas of interest for me.

Understanding Synthesizer Sound Families

For those unfamiliar with synthesizer sound families, I will share a SoundCloud playlist in this post for reference. It’s crucial to appreciate these sounds in terms of timbre, octave, and frequency rather than just their realism, as they all play a significant role in music.

Is It Important to Know All Sound Synthesis Types?

While it’s not essential to know every sound synthesis type in depth, understanding the basics and recognizing how popular sounds are made can be highly beneficial. This knowledge allows you to quickly identify and achieve the desired tone in your tracks and simplifies the use of specific modifiers in wavetable or subtractive synthesis to incorporate FM synthesis characteristics. Devices like those from Elektron already cover several synthesis types, giving you a versatile toolkit.

Developing Your Sound Aesthetic

Listening to a wide range of music enhances your ability to appreciate and shape sounds, inspiring musical phrases and ideas. Exploring different genres and influences is crucial for ear training and aesthetic development. Experimentation is key—embrace modular thinking and layer unusual elements to discover new sonic landscapes. Don’t limit yourself to subtractive synthesis; explore the full palette of sound-shaping tools available.

Field recording, sampling, and re-sampling are also vital processes. Collaboration can broaden your horizons, helping you identify and refine your sound preferences. Analyze your favorite presets and artists to create your unique sound signature. By referencing and studying the sounds and arrangements of artists you admire, you can better understand what resonates with you and why, paving the way for your creative expression.

next :
An opinionated and selfish TIMELINE

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I do think it’s an opportunity to discuss as well :wink:
If the density is high it’s probably better to DM me, but if it’s short, replying into the thread is fine with me. I take all the help people can give to make the final document better for everyone – that’s for sure.

At the end expect an English Version and a French Version.

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I thought this was about octopus and squid recipes.

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An opinionated and selfish TIMELINE

( from an old 47 years old groovebox guy)

This is my approach to creating a timeline for my synth story. Rather than posting the full synth story here due to its length, I’ll provide a link for those interested in reading it in detail (coming next). My focus was to highlight significant moments in the history of listening to, amplifying, and recording music, as well as the evolution of musical instruments—from early additive organs to grooveboxes, modular systems, computer-based setups, and live performances.
This timeline encompasses important gear across various music genres, not just club music. Additionally, I’ve considered synthesis techniques and signature sounds, which will be elaborated upon in the upcoming chapters.

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(This is the final Draft )
I will fix anything while writing the Synth Story chapter

  • 1822 Jean-Baptiste Fourier (Math-Physics) Fourier theorem Timbre = Fundamental + Harmonics (All with sine waves = idea of Additive Synthesis is based)

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  • 1849 Phone development (Antonio Meucci)

  • 1854 Phone development (Charles Bourseul)

  • 1857 Phonoautograph by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville

  • 1876 Alexander Graham Bell Patented Phone (Microphone / Speaker invented here)

  • 1877 Phonograph by Thomas Edison

  • 1887 Gramophon (Emile Berliner Patent but invention is 1886-89)

  • 1894 Gibson start with Mandolines

  • 1897 Telharmonium (Considered as the first Additive Device)
    British Marconi company (will play a role with Radio)

  • 1900 Earliest experimental AM Radio transmission is around 1900s

  • 1903 Telefunken company (will play a role with Radio)

  • 1904 Vacuum Tube (Thermionic valve) by John Ambrose Fleming

  • 1906 Triode Vacuum Tube by Lee De Forest & Early Radio Broadcasting

  • 1908 Mass production factory of Gramophon

  • 1912 First Amplifiers (vacuum tube were used in almost all amplifiers until 60s where transistors replaced them) Lee De Forest?

  • 1914 First commercial AM Audio vacuum tube Radio Transmitter (Lee De Forest)

  • 1920s Electro Acoustic transducer (Loudspeaker)
    Radio Broadcasting started around here (thanks to the Mature Valve Technology)
    AM Radio is established
    (Period where people work on earliest pickup, electric piano and electric guitar)

  • 1922 Theremin is invented by Lev Sergeyevich Termen (better known as Leon Theremin)

  • 1925 Marconi-Reisz Carbon Granular microphone

  • 1926 FET (Field effect Transistor) by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
    First Radio with electrodynamic loudspeakers (separate)
    Condenser microphone

  • 1928 Ondes Martenot
    Theremin patented to RCA company
    Stromberg-Voisinet Amplifier

  • 1929 RCA Thereminvox release
    Trautonium by Dr Freidrich Trautwein (Germany)

  • 1930 Tone control added to Radio Devices
    Analog Television Broadcasting
    Neo Benchtein « First electric piano »
    electric piano is very linked to guitars because it was mechanical and it was strings striked (Struck Strings, Tuning Forks, Plucked Reeds, Struck Reeds) also a lot of guitar manufacturer are also guitar and mandolin manufacturer (Gibson, Vivitone, Fender…)
    Tape Recording (germany)
    First Magnetic pickup
    HB1A Microphone (use in EMI Recording studio & BBC television)
    First Ribbon microphone invented here
    PA and Cinema Theater helped a lot with Amplifiers/Loudspeakers

  • 1930 Echo Chamber Reverb

  • 1931 Abbey Road Studio
    first electric stringed instrument “Frying Pan” by George Beauchamp, the general manager along with Adolph Rickenbacker (electromagnetic pickups) (need Guitar Amplifier)

  • 1933 FM Radio Patented by Edwin H. Armstrong
    Bass Guitar model 736 by Paul Tutmarc
    Vivitone Guitar Amplifier

  • 1934 Acousti-Lectric company Lloyd Loar & Lewis Williams
    Rickenbacker Amplifier

  • 1935 BBC/Marconi Type A Microphone Condenser
    Magnetophon (AEG) Tape Recorder
    Gibson guitar EH-150 (Gibson)
    Electric Bass guitar (need a Bass Amplifier)
    Hammond Organ (without Leslie first)
    Miniaturisation and Cost effective for Church, to replace Pipe Organ or Piano.
    Quickly become popular in Jazz just like Electric Piano
    It was the first device where user can shape the timbre of the organ sound !
    And it was the first time user can save and recall presets

  • 1936 Acousti-Lectric company was renamed : Vivi-Tone (Loar died in 1943)
    Electric spanish Guitar Gibson ES-150
    Telefunken U3 Variable Compressor

  • 1937 ANS Synth (photoelectronic musical instrument) by Yevgeny Murzin. Russia, 1958
    Audiovox model 236 the Bass Guitar Amplifier

  • 1938 Zenith model 12-S vacuum tube console radio

  • 1939 Hammond Novachord
    Hewlett Packard Company in Palo Alto, California founded

  • 1940s Pierre Shaeffer Experiments with Music Concrete (Tape, cut, collage)
    Also : John Cage, Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis…
    Hammond Solovox & Univox

  • 1941 Z3 Computer (not personal computer)
    Leslie Rotary Speakers (Leslie speaker to pair the Hammond Organ)

  • 1945 Magnetic Tape recording

  • 1946 micro P-90 Gibson (design still used)

  • 1947 Melochord by Harold Bode (very complex not ready for mass production)
    Point Contact Transistor by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley

  • 1948 Vinyl 33 1/3 Rpm 12 inch & 10 inch by Colombia records
    First Computer Program to Run on a Computer

  • 1949 Fender Esquire (First Solid body Electric Guitar)
    Chamberlin (Melotron ancestor) First time you get few instruments to choose !
    CSIRAC Computer (not personal computer)

  • 1950 First commercially produced computer (ERA 1101) - Fender Telecaster (Firstly named « The Esquire »> renamed « Broadcaster » > renamed « Telecaster »)

  • 1951 RCA Mark I Synth
    Earth Stood Still Movie use the Theremin
    CSIRAC computer play « the colonel bogey march » song
    GRM electro-acoustic studio (Pierre Schaeffer) after 10 years experiment at RTF

  • 1952 Gibson Les Paul

  • 1953 Grimsdale & Webb early transistorized computer

  • 1954 Wurlitzer electric piano
    Fender Stratocaster
    Regency TR-1 Portable Radio
    (Revolution of listening habbits made possible with transistor from 1948 (BELL Labs)

  • 1956 Siemens Synthesizer (Modular)

  • 1957 Vinyl become Stereophonic
    RCA Mark II Synth
    EMT 140 Reverb
    Teletronix LA-1 optical compressor

  • 1956 Bebe & Louis Barron - Forbidden Planet (First totally electronic BO movie)

  • 1959 MosFET Transistors by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng
    Transistors revolutionized : Radios, Calculators, computers & more
    Fender Piano Bass
    Wurlitzer Sideman Drum Machine
    Fairchild 600/670 compressors

  • 1960s Fender Jazz Bass
    Spring Reverb by Hammond
    First Mass Vinyl Player between 1960-1970
    Jamaican Dub Reggae to use recordings for riddim and dj over

  • 1961 Universal Audio 175b/176 Limiting Amplifiers

  • 1963 Melotron (each keys control a magnetic band, similar to the sampler except you can’t record your own material nor modify it)
    Don Buchla (Modular)- Subtractive West-Coast (NYC)
    He was also on FM synthesis early and followed by Moog and ARP

  • 1964 Robert Arthur « Bob » Moog - Subtractive East-Coast (SF) Moog Modular
    is credited for pioneering concepts such as voltage-controlled oscillators, envelopes, noise generators, filters, and sequencers.
    Hohner Clavinet

  • 1965 Teletronix LA-2A
    Fender Rhodes electric piano full size by CBS Fender (Colombia Broadcasting System)
    ACE Tone Rhythm ACE FR1 (incorporated in some Hammond organs)

  • 1967 UREI 1176 FET Compressor
    John Chowning invent FM Synthesis

  • 1968 Wendy Carlos Switched-On Bach (on Moog Modular)
    2001, a space odyssee Movie by Stanley Kubrick
    First Personal Computer by Hewlett Packard (9100A)

  • 1969 EMS Synth VCS3 (cheaper than minimoog)

  • 1970 Mass production of the Fender Rhodes started
    Moog Minimoog, smaller, cheaper (for a Moog) Minimoog standardized synthesizers as self-contained instruments with built-in keyboards (still the first synth in terms of form factor as we know synth today really visionary) - first electronic drum by Graeme Edge
    ARP 2500 (was closer to Buchla Easel a Modular + keyboard less portable than Easel still)

  • 1971 Granular Theory (the concept) suggested by Iannis Xenakis
    ARP 2600 (Ben Burtt perform with his voice R2D2 voice through it)

  • 1972 The legendary Technics SL1200 Turntable - ARP Odyssey - Buchla Music Easel was introduced in 1972 (still feel modular in a small case but portable) - EMS Synthi AKS (cheapest at that time)

  • 1973 FM Synthesis from John Chowning is Patented by Yamaha
    Roland Tape Echo RE-100/RE-200
    E-MU Modular Synth

  • 1974 Roland Space Echo RE20
    Yamaha SY-1
    MITS « Altair » (Personal Computer)
    Curtis Roads was the first to implement Granular Synthesis on a Computer

  • 1975 SONY first PCM encoder - Roland System 100 Modular - Steiner Parker EVI (Earlier EWI)
    PPG System 100

  • 1976 Yamaha CS80
    EMT 250 first Digital reverb
    DRAM and Early Apple-1 (by Steve Wozniak, marketed by his friend Steve Jobs)
    MFB founded – starting with various products, including video games

  • 1977 Apple II (Personal Computer), Commodore (cassette), Atari console, Star Wars Movie
    Synclavier II most popular Additive Synth / Sampler / Resynthesis
    it’s also include FM Synthesis patented from Yamaha to be inside.

  • 1978 Sequential Circuits released the Prophet-5, which used microprocessors to allow users to store sounds for the first time. KORG MS Series - Simmons company was created to produce commercial electronic drums sets.
    Roland CR-78 drum machine
    Speak and Spell device

  • 1979 Fairlight CMI
    First Polyphonic Synth : (earlier synth was monophonic)
    Oberheim OB-X - PPG Wave Computer 360 (Wolfgang Palm Wavetable Synthesis)
    First fully digital produced/recorded album : Ry Cooder « Bop til you drop »
    MFB-501 drum machine, a breakthrough seller in Germany

  • 1980 Roland TR-808 (80-83 and replaced by TR-909 because of « bad components »)
    LINN LM-1 Drum Computer

  • 1981 GS1 Yamaha - First FM Synth
    Oberheim OB-Xa
    SONY PCM-F1 PCM Encoder for the public
    E-mu Emulator Sampler (cheaper than synclavier & fairlight)
    PPG Wave - popular wavetable hardware synth
    KORG Mono-Poly - Polysix - Roland Jupiter 8
    IBM Personal Computer, Minitel goes public
    Ikutaro Kakehashi (Roland) proposed developing MIDI to Tom Oberheim
    Roland Jupiter 8

  • 1982 Blade Runner (Music by Vangelis) & TRON (Music by Wendy Carlos) - MIDI Protocol - Roland SH-101, TB-303, JUNO 6
    LINN Lindrum

  • 1983 Roland TR-909, TR-707, Jupiter 6 - MC-202 - OSC Oscar Synth
    Yamaha DX7 - a very popular FM Synth - MIDI became a standard
    Karplus-strong String physical modeling concept for Plucked Strings
    by Kevin Karplus and Alexander Strong
    Apple launch LISA his first commercial personal computer, CD-ROM

  • 1984 Apple Macintosh - IBM Personal Computer - CD-ROM introduced - CD for Music
    Roland Juno-106,
    Casio CZ-101 Phase Distortion Synthesis (as Yamaha patented FM, other manufacturers develop variations of the concept, but they are very similar : FM, Phase Distortion (Casio), Variable Phase Modulation (Korg) …

  • 1985 Akai S Series of Sampler (probably the first affordable to public) - Roland Alpha Juno

  • 1986 Sequential Circuits : Vector Synthesis with the Prophet VS - EMU SP12

  • 1987 Roland D-50 with samples, first mass-produced synth with built-in digital effects

  • 1988 Akai MPC60 - Akai S1000
    KORG M1 (featuring sampled transients and loops) - SoundBlaster by Creative Arts
    Waldorf by Wolfgang Düren (earlier German distributor of PPG)

  • 1989 Waldorf Microwave 1 (first affordable wavetable-synth)
    E-MU Proteus (ROMplers)
    Abyss Movie (James Cameron) - First Macintosh Laptop - Cubase on Atari ST - Digidesign ProTools

  • 1990 Yamaha SY22 also include Vector Synthesis

  • 1991 Roland JV-80 & Rack

  • 1992 Akai S300

  • 1993 Waldorf WAVE - Novation Bass Station

  • 1994 Yamaha VL1 First Physical modeling Synth

  • 1995 Clavia Nord Lead - Korg Prophecy - Doepfer Eurorack format (A100 modular)

  • 1996 Roland MC-303 Groovebox - Rebirth RB-338

  • 1997 Access Virus - Yamaha AN1x - Roland JP-8000
    Akai MPC2000 - FruityLoops
    Elektron college project SID in 1997 (Hansson, Garder, Raim)

  • 1998 Sonic Foundry Acid (Loops arranger) - Roland MC505 - Elektron Sid Station

  • 1999 Matrix Movie - update to Cubase for VST Support
    KORG Triton & Electribe Series - Waldorf Q series - Haken Continuum keyboard (innovation in keyboards expressivity)
    Sony Convolution Reverb (DRE S777)

  • 2000 Propellerhead Reason - KORG MS2000 Series

  • 2001 Yamaha RS7000 - Elektron SPS MachineDrum
    Steven Spielberg & Kubrick AI Movie - Ableton Live

  • 2002 Roland MC909

  • 2003 MySpace - Elektron Monomachine

  • 2004 Radikal Technologies Spectralis

  • 2005 Arduino

  • 2006 Roland MC808

  • 2007 Waldorf Blofeld - Akai EWI4000s (USB Electronic Woodwind)
    SoundCloud was established in Berlin by Swedish sound designer Alexander Ljung and electronic musician Eric Wahlforss - Bandcamp also the same year

  • 2009 Camel Audio Alchemy give Spectral « Synthesis » manipulation
    Native Instruments Maschine - Roland HPD-10 Handsonic (Adv Electronic Percussion)

  • 2010 Sculpture in Logic Pro - Early Physical Modeling software synth

  • 2011 Elektron Octatrack

  • 2012 Elektron Analog Four
    iZotope IRIS made the synth based on Spectral Synthesis
    Steinberg gives Padshop (it does Granular and Spectral in version 2)
    AAS Chromaphone - popular physical modeling synth

  • 2013 KORG Volca Series

  • 2014 Analog Rytm

  • 2015 Novation Circuit - ROLI Seaboard Grand Stage

  • 2016 audiomodeling SWAM engine - incredible physical modeling orchestras instruments - Toraiz SP16

  • 2017 Elektron Digitakt - Novation Peak

  • 2018 Elektron Digitone - Waldorf Quantum

  • 2019 Expressive-E Osmose - Waldorf Kyra

  • 2020 Waldorf Iridium - UDO Super 6

  • 2021 Waldorf M - Tasty Chips GR-1 (Granular Synthesizer)

  • 2022 Elektron Syntakt

  • 2024 Elektron Digitakt 2

(This is the final Draft )
I will fix anything while writing the Synth Story chapter

Next :
Synth — history

Edit : 2025 February, the 20th : Don’t wait for this synth history, maybe I will make a short text (I don’t know) but this is so interesting … I realized this was an entire book in itself !

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I already love this thread! „Low End“ was so informative and precious that I am very certain that this one will bring us a lot of goodness and a go-to thread for hints :slight_smile: :smiley:
BTW: respect for molluscs;-)

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Original Digitakt is 2017? Wow, time is passing by

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i write (work in progress) i’m currently in the writing of synth story, so along my progression i triple check those dates. No mistake for the Digitakt.

But i fix wendy carlos date, and the Theremin. It’s difficult to get everything right between research, invention, patent and commercial release… so when everything seem spot on i will remove (work in progress) and replace by (Dates triple checked)
:stuck_out_tongue:

Also, the hammond organ was release without Leslie Speaker initially, it came in 1941 (Hammond Organ in 1937)

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1989 Waldorf Microwave 1 (first affordable wavetable-synth)

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Yeah i can’t put it all but i added this one, it’s one to not miss you right (plus PPG was expensive so yeah)

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i will talk about this first fully electronic original motion picture… in my little “synth story” coming next.

  • 1956 Bebe & Louis Barron - Forbidden Planet (First totally electronic BO movie)

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Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back)
is an interesting Book, i did not use it for my timeline of important events. (It cover only from 1963 to 1995) and also it’s in alphabetical order (i choose a chronological order)

[But i will check from 1963 to 1995 if everything correct.]

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You can buy it here if you want

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Hello,
This is the upcoming « Synth Story » sectioning
(i obviously try to adopt a sound synthesis point of view)

  • (1822-1935) Fourier/Hammond/Thermen
    « early additive theory and early Loudness »
  • (1935-1949) Tape/Concrete/Loops/Bode
    « early audio manipulation techniques»
  • (1950-1969) The Experimental devices you can’t have in your bedroom
    “early Modular and Subtractive Synthesis”
  • (1970-1980) The Portable devices you actually want in your bedroom
    “East / West coast & Sample based synthesis”
  • (1980-1985) The new Digital toys and tones
    “FM to Wavetable Synthesis”
  • (1985-1994) Romplers to Software revolution
    “Vector, Granular and early physical modeling synthesis”
  • (1995-2011) Groovebox, Eurorack, Daw & Artist DIY
    “Live Performance, artist DIY and the pack light”
  • (2012-nowadays) Virtual from Real is blurry
    “Physical modeling, Expressivity and What next…”

In this chapter i will not explain the sound synthesis types in-depth as it is the chapter that follow :wink:

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Let’s get Kraken

is it just me reading this half-English, half-German — «Let’s get Kranken» ?

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then read : no more leiden :rofl:

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I‘m a German native speaker, I don’t reading this way but find it weird that Kraken is used in an English sentence.

Besides, I find this thread slightly disturbing, fascinating and confusing :sweat_smile:.

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Hey everyone, I’m here to give you an update on this project.

It’s been seven months since I last posted about it—I really have a hard time keeping up with how fast time flies…

Let me explain why this writing project isn’t progressing (or at least doesn’t seem to be). I’ll set the scene for those who might not be familiar with it. I’m working on a collection of synthesis recipes, covering everything from modern music to electronic music—crafted in my own definitive way. And since I’m a perfectionist, “definitive” means one thing: this is going to take time.

The first mistake I made was starting with a theoretical section on the history of synthesizers. As soon as I revisited that history, I felt the urge to expand it—to explore humanity’s desire to amplify sound and instruments, like the guitar and keyboard, before the synthesizer even existed. Naming, dating, explaining, and being as thorough as possible about the brilliant inventors to whom we owe our passion was incredibly interesting… but I also realized that this was an entire book in itself.

So, should I write two books—one theoretical and one practical? No, I don’t think so. The first book has already been written in multiple forms, and I neither have the ambition to do better nor the patience to go through the hassle of securing rights to reproduce photos of those early inventions. The frustrating part is that I spent months researching and writing before ultimately setting this first book aside.

Because for me, the most important part—the one that keeps me motivated and the idea I originally set out to develop—is the practical book: the patches cookbook.

Edit :
solution found : I make a website and not books for now. that way I can write the synth story as well as the synthesis recipe on my own timeline.

That first detour and the time lost shook me up a bit, and I ended up taking a two-month break. But now, I’m back at it.

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Hi little update for this project.

I decided to go the same way that I do for lowend101, as it end up working pretty well. (meaning I fill a wordpress blog with a complex organization and then I extract it all for an possible eBook but I’m not even sure… paper in 2025 I don’t know)

But the advantage of being able to envision things beyond just these synthesis recipes—on other topics as well. The ability to revise and update things more easily. At some point, I may eventually ask myself about the return on this investment. For now, it’s free, and relatively secret since I’ve only mentioned it here.

I realized that expectations here (I mean on this forum) have changed, that my advices are sometimes unwelcome or even unappreciated—and since I’m sensitive and don’t take criticism well, especially when I’m offering help for free… I’ve decided to work in a more one-sided way.

However, breaking this large project into smaller parts will allow me to move faster and write more regularly. So, the website I’ve chosen to create will remain—it won’t be deleted. For now, there are no user accounts, just a newsletter you can subscribe to. When I feel the site has enough content to go public, I’ll send out a newsletter with the official launch date.

I’m starting to integrate content into the site through this tiny section dedicated to sound synthesis—you’ve probably figured out that my ambition goes much further than that!

I may post it here as well like I done in the lowend101 thread.
Maybe.

I change this thread name to be in phase with this changes.

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Website Advancement :

CHANGELOG last update : 2025 - Mai, 12

  • overall structure of Custom Post Types & taxonomies
  • Startup Theme (I will design one after with Bricks Builder, ACSS, GetFrames)
  • glossary feature (CM Tooltip Glossary - paid plugin) better to setup early
  • Working, Planning what are the 3 posts to start each Topics
  • 3 posts per Topics to start on 11 Main Categories (Lorem Ipsum)
  • i will reach few people for interview to interest a bit more
  • Tested the Mailchimp newsletter - all good. (no-one subscribe for now)
  • All 11 Pages are created and query the appropriate Custom Post Types
  • Lost quite some time to fix a bug on CM Tooltip (caused by a plugin conflict, I would say the normal jazz with wordpress eco-system) but now it’s working as you can see here
  • Glossary is done (of course it will ever growing I guess) you can check it here : https://club-wizardry.com/glossary (print from the browser work pretty nice)
  • Lowend101 is restored as an archive in its own CPT for a period of time lowend101.com will be redirected to that archive. new URL : lowend101_archives – Club Wizardry redirection 301 is in place.
  • Added a Files download section (for now only to download lowend101.zip but at some point more goodies to download
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