Re: [sc-users] How did you learn SC?

[Pelle Nilsson <perni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like to play with synth sounds, more than actually attempting to make
anything music-like, and have seen absolutely zero musical
education. Started out with some freeware softsynths and hardware synths
in the early 90's. Stumbled upon csound and played with that from time
to time for a few years, also doing some sound programming in C and
Python for fun. Found SC (probably just browsing debian package lists
for softsynths, or some other list of linux music software) and tried
some tutorial but didn't quite get it ("wow like a theremin with the
mouse, can control the pitch of a sinus wave") or understand how
powerful it was. About last summer I saw that THX sound made in SC, then
sc140 and the youtube videos by cylob, and after that I started looking
closer, although the learning curve has been a bit irregular. Have had
some real fun playing with connecting SC to various control devices and
writing some UI code and coming up with a few SynthDefs, but think I
will need a few more years to really figure out what to use it for and
how.

It is far too easy to start working on a SynthDef, but once it sounds
reasonably like I wanted to I just add some simple MouseX/MouseY (or
sometimes wacom) controls then just play with it making noises, rather
than keep working towards some original idea I had. Hope if I had some
clearer goal that would happen less often.

-- 
/Pelle

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