Bored on vacation, what's the best way to learn synths in 2022?
Syntorial (on desktop or iPad) is an app which teaches you synthesis by doing - it’s a full synth which you can use in its own right, and it introduces you to each part and gives you challenges to recreate a certain sound using that part. I can’t say I’ve done the full thing but it’s a cool concept.
You can also just download some free/cheap synths (or get a free trial of Ableton or some other music making software which comes with its own included synths) and start messing around of course haha, there are a tonne of good ones around, including on iOS if you use an iPad (the advantage being the touch screen makes it maybe more fun than using a mouse). GarageBand on Mac is maybe a fun place to start experimenting too.
Happy to advise more if you have specific things you’re interested in!
https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/pigmen...
If not, just get Vital and start messing around. There are tons of Youtube tutorials.
True, because Max comes with bandlimited oscillators and envelope generators ready to go. In Pd you need to build them yourself or import libraries.
> and is more fully featured out of the box
True. See above. A lot of things you'd make from scratch in Pd come in the standard namespace of Max.
That said, there's nothing you can do in Max that you couldn't do in Pd is you're a decent DSP coder, and that low-level entry point is half the fun IMHO. Don't forget they were originally the same codebase. MSP is Miller's initials (For those who don't know Miller Puckette named it Max as homage to Max Matthews).