As mentioned before, we'll start with a simple synthesizer. It's a subtractive one with two oscillators, [saw~] and [rect~]; a lowpass filter, [lores~]; and a standard ADSR,[adsr~]. In this chapter, we won't talk much about the actual synthesis or sound processing. We are going to use the synth to motivate us a bit to learn everything else that's needed around the synth and in many other occasions. While learning these methods, we are going to improve the synth in many ways, and as I said already, it doesn't really matter if it's a synth, a sampler or something else. In fact, I encourage you to build something else and apply the techniques discussed in the upcoming sections to it, rather than working with this synth. One last thing before we dive into it; don't expect this first little synth to sound unbelievably great. Again, we'll come to more sophisticated sound-processing topics in the next chapter.

So let's have a look at where we are going to start...