Comment by weatherlight

If you want to understand (Subtractive) synthesis. The best way is to get copy of VCV rack and follow a few tutorials. If you patch one subtractive mono synth voice once, you understand 80% of all subtractive synth architecture moving forward.

https://vcvrack.com (open source and wonderful)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V35OhojjqDs <- your first tutorial

Happy patching :)

There's a bunch of other really interesting types of synthesis and you can explore them using the above software

    - Frequency/phase modulation synthesis
    - Vector synthesis
    - physical modeling/Karplus strong
    - Additive synthesis
    - Eastcoast (subtractive)
    - Westcoast (waveshaping/LP gates)