Introduction – What to read?9 Waldorf Q User’s ManualIf you are new to the whole issueIs this your first or second synthesizer? Then you should first read the whole manual once. You don’tneed to do that while you’re exploring the Q, you can also read it as you would read a good book.But read it. You don’t need to understand everything but after you’ve read the manual, you knowwhere to find a particular topic. Then it’s time to go deep into the Q and when you’re stuck, you willfind the answer quickly and easily.Furthermore, we recommend getting a good book explaining synthesizers and sound synthesis ingeneral. This book might help you when you don’t understand a certain term that is used in themanual. The appendix of the Q manual contains a Glossary but it is possible that you want or needeven deeper explanation. A good book explaining analog sound synthesis is published by the Germanpublisher WIZOO and is called “Analog Sound Synthesis”. You can find further info about it andother books covering similar topics on:http://www.wizoo.comIf you have experience with synthesizersDo you own a couple of synthesizers and edited some sounds on them to fit your needs? Then makesure to read at least the following chapters:Section Chapter Sub-ChapterIntroduction General Safety Guidelines all chaptersSetup and Connection Audio ConnectionsDigital S/PDIF OutputSwitching offPanic FunctionSelecting Programs all chaptersInstruments and Sounds all chaptersBasic OperationEditing Parameters all chaptersMulti Parameters all chaptersMulti ModeInstrument Parameters all chaptersStep Sequencer all chapters
