![]() ![]() Because it forces you to really spend the time listening and learning to each technique, the lessons really start to sink in. Kroneborge I'm up to section 9 now, and I'm really digging it. If you want to get that sound in your head, Syntorial will teach you how. My overall impression is that Syntorial is a great tool and well worth the investment. The best part is that I've been able to quickly understand what I need to listen for to avoid repeating my previous mistakes, that means I get to get better at what I want to do. I plan on repeating the entire course until I ace it. Usually the lesson challenges and topic quizzes go pretty quickly but the group challenges can be "challenging", that's a good thing. For me, the challenges have had almost the perfect degree of difficulty, not so easy that I nail every one but not so hard that I haven't gotten close enough to understand what I missed. So far, I've gone through the first 10 topics (65 lessons). Syntorial is also well designed in that it makes it difficult, if not impossible, to cheat, not that you'd want to. This is also the model the military uses to train people for technical jobs, it is probably the most effective method ever devised for rapid training. The instant feedback model tells you right away exactly what you didn't get right the first time and allows you to redo a challenge until you are satisfied that you have a good grasp on the topic. The thing that sets Syntorial apart is that it's an ear training tool, the lessons, challenges, and quizzes train your ears to hear what the various elements of subtractive synthesizers do. ![]() It also has a free Z3TA+ 2 module that explains the mapping of their synth to Z3TA+ 2 with accompanying challenges. In all it has 33 topics, each covering an aspect of subtractive synthesis. The challenges cover the current lesson, quizzes cover the topic, and the group challenges cover everything you've learned up to and including the current topic. It has a series of lessons where the different elements of subtractive synthesizers are explained and demonstrated followed by challenges, quizzes, and group challenges. Syntorial is an ear training tool based on the instant feedback model. But honestly, I've never really found it all that useful in a practical music-making sense.I posted in another section about not being able to get exactly what I wanted from Z3TA+ 2 and someone recommended Syntorial: so I went to the site, bought a copy, and started going through the lessons. It's fascinating, and we cover it because it's a Serum feature. That being said, in the included Serum Lesson Pack, we go DEEP into their Wavetable Editor and talk about how the visual shape of a waveform affects the sound. Also, some synths don't have dynamic visualization and Syntorial is designed to be applicable to as many other synths as possible. Syntorial is a synth ear training course above all else. Most importantly, as others have mentioned, we want 100% of your focus on your ear. We'll be replacing them with some simple text popups here and there, and incorporating some of the info into the lesson demonstration videos as well.ĭynamic visualization of waveform: We've left this out on purpose for a couple of reasons. It's clunky, and in some cases unnecessary. In the next big 2.0 update (due out in the summer) we're getting rid of the popup help videos that are interspersed throughout the first lesson. Introductory Help videos: I couldn't agree more. We appreciate candid feedback like this! It helps us make Syntorial better. All that it has going for it is gamification, which is significant, but still. But no, I've seen plenty that at least provide a dynamic visualization of the waveform, which means that Syntorial is exceptionally bad. This makes me wonder whether other synth UIs are 10x worse if they don't even put an effort into the educational aspect. So rather than building up correspondences between sounds and the waveforms, it's just about sounds and the states all the various controls scattered about the screen. Why not slow down the oscillator to the point where you can clearly hear it? Or have a visualization of the waveform front and center so you can clearly see it? Instead, all you see is a tiny static icon and a bunch of knobs. And then as for the actual content, it provides no meaningful distinction between the basic wave forms other than that the pulse sounds "like a video game". As if start and exit buttons aren't self-explanatory. The whole setup of showing you a video how to use the application UI and then an embedded video about how to use the synth's UI is pretty insulting. ![]() Yesterday I tried the Syntorial demo ended up deinstalling it about five minutes in. ![]() I'm new to synths and electronic music production and have been surveying different software available, with a particular eye towards educational tools. ![]()
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