Interactive pages for learning synthesis concepts — because it's easy to forget the details, and having something you can play with helps it stick. If they help you too, great.
Interactive companions to Gordon Reid's legendary Synth Secrets series from Sound On Sound (1999–2004). These cover the "East Coast" tradition of subtractive synthesis that shaped decades of electronic music.
Original lessons inspired by the same hands-on format, covering topics Reid didn't get to: wavefolding, lowpass gates, function generators, and generative patches. Same approach — just newer instruments to play with.
Wavetable and granular synthesis — memory-based techniques that decouple timbre from pitch and time from speed. The bridge from analog concepts to the digital tools that dominate modern sound design.
Prerequisites the curriculum assumes but never teaches, plus the tools needed to actually compose: step sequencing and drum machines.
Noise as a synthesis source, a guitarist's pedalboard of effects, generative sequencing, and spectral processing.
These are resources I've found invaluable for learning synthesis:
Interactive instruments for making sounds — build patches, play notes, explore.
Visual and audio experiments — prototypes for future features.