Im a guitar player with new found respect for synth players. Not only do you folks have to play your instrument, you have to design the sounds it makes. :0

I bought a microkorg and am trying to create my own sounds using the software editor. But its all greek to me...oscillators and filters and lfo's and such, i mean I know what these things are but have no real idea how to sculpt sounds with them. There are just too many variables. So now my question: Is there somewhere a sort of blueprint for basic sounds, or for replicating acoustic sounds? or is there a beginners guide to synthesis that might explain what waves are commonly used to acheive certain sounds? that make any sense?

I could just start twiddlin knobs and learn on my own, and beleive me I have spent hours upon hours doin just that and its fun and all, just wondering if there are some "recipes" somewhere I could make use of?
I found some sounds for microkorg on a french site but couldnt figure out how to open em. any help would be greatly appreciated and sorry for the noobness of my querry.

Cheers and thanks

Chovie d,
You might want to cross-post this request at Harmony Central synth forum.
Star

will do starkeeper, I dont know how the synth forum is there but some of the other ones Ive visited at HC didnt seem to friendly..I will give it a shot tho. Thanks-

They were really cool about it and pointed me to some pretty intense but informative articles: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

thats alot of reading (and most likely re-reading for me) but looks like it will tell me what I was wantin to know. Cheers.

Hi,

For most things Korg, especially in the synth area, you'll get a bunch of good info from a bunch of good people over at:
http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/

Congrats on your new toy and Happy Tweakin'!