ABSTRACT
Sound design is one of the most vital elements of creating dance music, since the sounds will more often than not determine the overall genre of music. However, although it would be fair to say that quite a few timbres are gleaned from other records or sample CDs, there are numerous advantages to programming your own sounds. Not only do you have much more control over the parameters when compared to samples, there are no key range/pitch-shifting restrictions and no copyright issues. What’s more, you’ll get a lot more synth for your money than if you simply stuck with the presets and you’ll also open up a whole new host of avenues that you would otherwise have missed.
