Adding Natural Instrument Characteristics to Your Lead Synth Sounds

or the last few columns we’ve been exploring soloing styles of sax players for new inspiration. But there is another way to gain new ideas from these sources. I find it an interesting exercise to study the characteristics of a type of instrument and its players for ideas that I can add to my synthesizer programming. I am not talking about the concept of imitating existing instruments through synthesis, but in adding some of the timbral and performance concepts of a given instrument onto