The early and enduring appeal of those huge Moog and Buchla modular systems is that players could conjure any imaginable sound by learning how to tweak a big system with immediate visual and sonic feedback.īut what’s sauce for the subtractive goose is not sauce for the FM gander.
Analog subtractive synthesis operates on similar principles as an EQ or guitar effects, with twists of knobs shaping the produced sound in a straightforward way.
