He was inspired to make Syntorial based on his struggles of learning musical synthesis: Syntorial uses controls and features that are the most common in many synthesizers, including subtractive synthesis, three oscillators, saw, pulse, triangle and sine waves, an FM parameter, noise oscillator, oscillator sync, band-pass filter with resonance and key tracking, ADSR envelopes, an AD modulation envelope, LFO, monophonic and polyphonic voice modes, portamento, unison with voice, detune and spread controls, ring modulation, distortion, chorus, phaser, delay, reverb, mod wheel, pitch wheel and velocity.Ī 2003 graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Joe Hanley had been a professional musician for 17 years, a teacher for nine years, and a composer for six years before he began work on Syntorial. Once the user finishes all the lessons, he/she will have programmed 706 patches. ![]() A total of 39 quizzes are included in-between lessons. As the user progresses, more controls are added in each topic. Once the user corrects the mistakes, they can try the challenge again or move on to the next lesson. After the user is done programming the sound, they will submit the patch to the program, with the user shown what controls they used correctly and what controls they used incorrectly. Each lesson starts with a video lecture teaching a control or a group of controls, followed by a challenge a patch is heard, but the user is not shown how the patch is programmed, so that they can try to program the patch to sound like the hidden patch. Syntorial includes a total of 199 lessons and 129 interactive challenges, where the user programs sounds using a built-in synth called Primer. The latest version of Syntorial is 1.6.1, which was released on August 4, 2015. Syntorial garnered critical acclaim with reviewers praising it a fun way to learn synthesis, earning an Editors’ Choice Award from Electronic Musician in 2014. The synth that is built into the software is called Primer, which was released as a VST and AU in November 2013. Kickstarter-funded in 2012, the program was officially released for Microsoft Windows and OS X on August 27, 2013, and for the iPad on June 25, 2015. ![]() He was inspired to make the program by his frustration of learning synthesis in his early career, and wanted to create something that would train the user to design a patch by ear. I recently wrote an article about why I think you should start a business (and how you can guarantee success).Syntorial is a synthesizer- teaching software created by Audible Genius, a company owned by website programmer, musician and teacher Joe Hanley. To put everything in that post to the test, I’m going to run an experiment… ![]() I’m going to start a completely new business from scratch and I’m going to document the entire process! What’s the point starting a new business after already achieving FI?Īs I mentioned in that post, creating a business around one of your interests is a great way to force yourself to dive deeper into something you enjoy.Īnd as we learned during my recent interview with Cal Newport, going deeper into something results in more happiness and fulfillment. ![]() Rather than have multiple posts about this experiment, I’m just going to update this post as the experiment progresses. I’m stealing this style of posting from my favorite entrepreneur site. MoneyLab is written by my buddy Matt and is where he runs interesting business experiments, documents all the details, and shares the results.Ī lot of his experiments aren’t successful and don’t make any money at all but it’s nice to see that honesty and transparency (especially in the “online business” space). He also has a really entertaining podcast that’s worth checking out (him and his cohost, Andrew from ListenMoneyMatters, have the best chemistry out of anyone in podcasting so the episodes are always a lot of fun to listen to).Īnyway, he dedicates a page to each of his experiments and updates the page as he goes along and I really like that style so I’m borrowing it for this experiment. To keep the experiment as fair as possible, I’m not going to publically share the URL of the new project here. Since the Mad Fientist has been around a long time and has a lot of authority in the eyes of the search engines, I don’t want to give my new site a big head start by linking to it from here.
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