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
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