Operator is capable of endless sound creation due to its extensive features, yet it remains easy to use. Like Live, Operator's interface is streamlined for immediacy and designed to promote creativity. We've also created six integrated tutorials, or "lessons," to accelerate your discovery of Operator's powerful and flexible sound design ability. Even if you have very little experience with synthesis, you can learn Operator quickly and easily.

Lesson 1: Operator Introduction

A tour of Operator's streamlined interface and powerful key features, giving you the power to personalize the wide range of sounds in this synthesizer.

The remaining lessons delve deeper into Operator by guiding you step by step through creating a variety of sounds from scratch.

Lesson 2: Creating Bass Sounds

This lesson shows how Operator's hybrid approach to synthesis can deliver an extensive range of bass sounds.

Lesson 3: Creating Drum Sounds

Operator features powerful envelopes and noise generators, making it an excellent resource for drum and percussion sounds of all kinds.

Lesson 4: Creating Lead Sounds

With four oscillators, multimode resonant filters and polyphonic glide, Operator excels at fat lead sounds.

Lesson 5: Creating Pad Sounds

In this tutorial, you'll use Operator's four oscillators and smooth filtering options to create a variety of lush pad textures.

Lesson 6: Rhythmic Textures

Operator has a unique ability to loop its envelopes, creating intricate rhythmic textures that are difficult, if not impossible, to create on other synths.