Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThe best resource I've ever seen for learning synthesis is Syntorial: https://www.syntorial.com/ It teaches you step by step all the aspects of a synth engine: oscillators, wave shapes, amplitude, filters, modulation, unison, FM… But most of all it trains your ear, which allows you to replicate the sound in your head and build it from scratch.
Pretty cool demo, if you want to make your own electronic music you should check out LMMS, it's free & fairly easy to learn the basics: https://lmms.io I've been messing with LMMS for the past couple of years, zero musical training, following YouTube tutorials at first and came up with a bunch of stuff that sounds half decent in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsjzt5QLGOg&list=PL54E2psbCL...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1219
- Total comments
- 235
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-25 | Learning SynthsFirst breakout · Best thread | navidhg | 969 | 172 |
| 2021-03-11 | Get Started Making Sounds | spking | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-10-31 | Learning Synths | rcarmo | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-05-05 | Abletone Learning SynthLatest 20+ point return | evo_9 | 241 | 63 |
| 2024-01-03 | Learning SynthsHall induction | superb-owl | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-04-10 | Learning Synths | toblaroni | 3 | 0 |