Creating Soft Synth Patches On Your PC

So, you want to produce your own synth music? While it may seem complicated to tackle at first, creating professional synth sounds is not a difficult task. Sequencers like FL Studio will serve you best in creating professional-sounding soft synth patches, and copies can be purchased for a relatively cheap price; the trial can also be downloaded and used for thirty days.

In order to create your perfect synth patches, you'll need to determine what part of the music that synth patch will represent. Will it be the lead or main instrument of the music, or will it be the bassline or a drum implement? Combining the unique sounds of all of these synth patches will give your song a professional sound, when supplemented with a bit of patience and skill.

Synth sound, unlike soundfonts or samples, is entirely synthesized by an on-board oscillator or generator. A popular type of instrument to use is a three-patch oscillator. The three-patch oscillator can be used to create a variety of sounds. The square, triangle, sine, or noise waveforms can be changed with attack, decay and release sliders. For example, if you wanted the triangle waveform to come in with a gradual slide to a synth punch, you would slide the attack on the sound up, in order to cause a crescendo at the beginning of the synth. This sort of sound with a high attack can be used to create synth strings. Increase the decay envelope to make synth strings sound as if they have a greater amount of reverb, or as if they are being played inside of an echo chamber.

If you're trying to create a synthesizer patch for a lead instrument, take the attack all the way down. Synth patches with low attack envelopes can be played at a quicker rate, or they can be arpeggiated to engender a hyperactive synth beat; for a more retro sound to your soft synth, use a square waveform and low attack envelope.

The possibilities for making new soft synth patches are endless. Waveforms can be enveloped and processed to make billions of varieties of instruments. The literally endless possibilities for different sounds and instruments in electronic music make it an attractive type of music to produce. Professional sounds can be made from a home computer with large investments in a home studio, so it is now easily affordable for anyone to produce their own home-made synth songs.