How to Utilize Your Synthesizer

If you have bought your $1000 shiny brand-new KORG and then think that you paid this much just for the preset sounds, then you should take a closer look! All synths are made to manipulate sound itself and the possibilites of them are endless. Here's how you can create the sound that you have imagined!

Steps

Go to the sound that is closest to your desired sound. Listen for interesting effects and do not worry about the basis sound.(It has a French Horn sound, but it has a great forte-piano that you love.)
Find the basic editing area of the synth and look for the oscillator editing areas.
Change the samples given to the sample or basis sound you desire.
Find the filters and change them. Take note that this is where you can change the start time, loudest point and how it decays.
Find the LFO and change the waveform.
Find the arpeggiator and change it to a preset arpeggio or make your own.
Find the FX and find the ones you desire.

My tips

Manipulating sound is based on experimentation. You can read the manual to grasp the knowledge of your keyboard, but you must be the one to change each parameter.
Don't give up on this! It may seem to take forever to change and edit your keyboard to get the sounds you want, but it's all based on how bad you need and want the sound.
Read some of your manual. These steps are very brief and depending on the synth, there could be more or less functions on your keyboard.

Take note that this was based on the KORG Triton LE 61 Key Music Workstation. You may need to look in your manual to find these things that I am talking because they may have different names than above.
Remember that depending on what synth you have, that if you save the program to save it onto a sound you do not care for or a new program. If you save it over the original, the deletion of the old could be permanent.