Where can I find tutorials, mailing list info, patches etc.?

[Afro88]

Here is a list of links to help get you started

Clavia
http://www.clavia.com/G2/software.htm - Get the latest OS and Editor versions here
http://www.clavia.com/products/manuals.htm#g2 - Get the latest manual here
http://www.clavia.com/G2/faq.htm - Clavia's own FAQ

Tutorials
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhordijk/G2Pages/index.htm - Rob Hordijk's G2 tutorial (must read)
http://members.localnet.com/~singer99/G2-Tutorial/Introduction.htm - Chet Singer's physical modelling tutorials
http://www.clavia.com/nordmodular/Modularzone/index.html - Some tutorials based on modular synthesis, mostly relevant to the G2.
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nordmodularbook/nm_book_toc.html - Jim Clark's advanced modular programming techniques
http://www.soundonsound.com/search?PageSize=80&Keyword=%22synth%20secrets%22&Words=All&Summary=Yes&session=7e673d674fde9e3cc52563c349df2990 - Sound on Sound magazine's Synth Secrets pages containing many modular tutorials

Forums and mailing lists
http://electro-music.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=43 - This forum (duh!)
http://mail.electro-music.com/mailman/listinfo/nord-modular - The Nord Modular Mailing List
http://elists.resynthesize.com/nord-modular/ - The Nord Modular Mailing List archives (searchable)

Patch resources
http://electro-music.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=64 - This forum's patch archive
http://elists.resynthesize.com./search.php?list=nord-modular&q=pch2&submit=go - A list of (mostly) G2 patches posted to the G2 mailing list
http://elists.resynthesize.com./search.php?list=nord-modular&q=prf2&submit=go - A list of (mostly) G2 performances posted to the G2 mailing list
http://www.sebastianberweck.de/G2/MRT.htm - Sebastian (Sebber) Berweck's Page dedicated to G1 -> G2 patch conversion
http://pch.zevv.nl/topdownload.php - Original Nord Modular (G1) patch archive (searchable)
http://nm-archives.electro-music.com/010_NordModular/ - Original Nord Modular patch archive sorted by category, author or in .zip format

[ManuMontevideo]

Very useful for me but, You know some link in spanish?

[Afro88]

Sorry dude, I don't Maybe someone else here though?

One thing you can try (and you probably have) is babelfish http://babelfish.altavista.com/. You can translate from english to spanish, but I'm not sure how accurate the translation is.

[mosc]

[blue hell]

Yeah babelfish is very good as a poetry generator, at least when translating into dutch.

Jan.

[mother misty]

started reading the following last weekend,
"MUSIC SYNTHESIZERS, a manual of design & construction"
(written by Delton T.Horn)
It covers alot of interesting subjects like, special oscillator circuits, FM, filters types, ... very interesting stuff

[statler]

The tutorial is now at

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhordijk/G2Pages/index.htm

[Afro88]

Now fixed, cheers statler

[mother misty]

found some other interesting stuff, a free book about synth programming!
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/topic-76293-0-0.html

[sebber]

For newbies I would recommend books/tutorials that come with their own synthesizer for as long as there's no book on the G2 itself. The point is that you have to actually hear what what you're reading about. For that reason I don't recommend a NM tutorial for a G2 beginner, unless you have a NM, too.

A little pun here: how to recognize G2 experts? They recommend NM tutorials for G2 beginners. Don't trust them, they've forgotten how it feels


Two books that I know of that come with their own instruments (so you can listen and try the same thing on your G2) are:

Peter Gorges: Synthesizer Programming, Wizoo

Uwe Hoenig: Workshop Synthesizer, ppvmedien.

The Gordes book is available in English, too, don't know about (and haven't read) the Hoenig book.

I really like the book by Peter Gordes for another reason: he not only explains basic synthesis but tries to develop your sound imagination, too, and how to build a sound that's in your imagination.

For people who are advanced (>1 1/2 years of experience ) synthesists these books are probably a bore.

Edit:
my very own website for beginners: the G2-Toolbox.

http://g2.sebastianberweck.de

Edit again:
if you try to follow the NM workshops at Clavia's site, I've tried the same thing and you can find ca. 150 patches here:
http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-5699.html.
Mind you, I'm not saying these are the solutions, they're just my attempt.