O.k. So I have read more How too's/turtorials/history's of Synthesis technique than I'd care to admit. Yet I still can't program a synth to save my life.

Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to practice what I've learnt.

I have tried two techniques. and neither has got me anywhere. The first was to open a synth and just **** around with shit. then I would end up with some shit sound get bored and stop.


So then I thought maybe I need a purpose so I would lay down some drums. Write a track and then try and program whatever sound I thought it needed. But I could never make the sound I wanted so I would get shitty and quit.


I have since taken to mangling/layering presets in a combinator which is alot of fun and alot more rewarding than just using straight presets. But I need to learn how to make my own sounds. Or else I'll be a failure and then people will realise and no one will want to be my friend and my girlfriend will leave me. And then I'll have to move in with Mum. And then I'll live there the rest of my life until I finally die a lonely old man.


Pleeeeeease help me!!!!