The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "James Acker" <jacker@o...> wrote:

> I feel like I have never gotten enough out of mine, not because of 
any fault in the 
> An1x but simply because of my own lack of skills in programming it. 
> 
> I have tried, and I have heard other folks patches that sound 
great. I mostly want to get
> "weird noises" out of it. Weird but musical or rythmic. 
> 
> I guess it just takes time. It has helped tremendously to have the 
an1x edit, and better see
> what I am tweaking. Still, I wish I could spend a day a week with 
someone that knew how to
> really get the good stuff out of it....or if there were classes 
somewhere near that they taught this kind of thing.
  * I took a class in college(1975) called "electronic music lab". We 
each got 3hrs. of studio time a week to mess with an Arp 2500 
modular. Sometimes trial-and-error,tweaking knobs at random can 
produce very good results. I believe the college ( now western 
Wa.University) still offers the class and probably still has the same 
synth! You may want to check schools in your area. P.S. I will be 
posting a bank of 64 of my patches in a few weeks. They are done on a 
PLG150AN however, so some of them will not sound correct on the AN1X. 
Stay tuned!