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Sound Design Theory

This is a series of tutorials on sound design focusing on "what each effect really do to the sound" instead of presenting a series of recipes to do particular sound.

Welcome to the theory side of soud design!

1. Introduction

2. Harmonics, the basis of sound design

3. Sound sources & oscillators

4. 8 types of audio synthesis

5. Filters & EQ

6. LFO & envelopes

7. MIDI controllers, step sequencers & arpeggiators

8. Waveshapers & distortion

9. Compressors

10. Reverb

11. Delay

12. Flanger, phaser & chorus

13. Bitcrusher

14. Vocoder, auto-tune & talkbox

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