I recommend this! Trawl through the sound design section in these forums also. Have learnt some great things there too.

some guy from another board just pm'd me offering a straight trade: my Polar for his desktop. What an amazing deal! I can trade a synth with keys for one without! I can't believe he's not asking for some cash to go with it.

Indeed, this chap is quite a comedian! (^_^)

I cut my teeth on the Roland MC-505 back in the late 90's. The sounds aren't real flash, but there was a lot of parameters to play with in the patch editing menus. If you wanna learn substractive synthesis, (and FM, granular, wavetable et al.) I think one of the best ways is playing with modular synthesis software. Most of my real experience/knowledge of synthesis comes from playing with Software Technology's 'Vaz Modular'. It's like the LEGO of synths.

Wanna hear what a saw/squarewave sounds like, patch it in, what does a comb filter do? patch it in. Envelope followers, LFOs all that good stuff

How about a trade for my Virus TI Snow?
No keys either, and on top of that it saves you lots of space and it's mobile.

You're even funnier than the other guy that propositioned him! (^_^) Do you not realise, he was being sarcastic? (^_^)

I believe he did realize it before proposing TI Snow :)

Yep, and i realised that straight after posting! DOH! (^_^) Too many bluffs for my little brain! (<_>)