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Just stumbled on this:

http://www.fsgdc.at/download/Synthex_workshop.mp3

It would only be fair if the rest of those are added, too:

http://www.synthesizer.at/download/download.htm (requires you to understand German, though)

Bottom of the page has a lot of workshops with some great sounds. Instead of dry demos, these sounds often have effects (modest, though) - it gives you a better idea of how synthesizers sound in a production context. Mr. Wittek does a great job with this!

I've heard lots of those. But one thing nags on my mind when I hear them. They are called xxx_workshop. That means there would have to be some kind of text or course going with it aswell? I mean, a workshop is where someone shows how to create all those sounds we hear. Who makes them? All we hear are a bunch of presets, but I have a feeling the "workshop" means you should be able to program those sounds too.

If you look at the pictures on the left - well, there are the workshops. Albeit that I agree that a more correct naming would be "review" and "demo" since it doesn't teach you that much.

Ah now I see. That would be an awesome site if I understood german.
I can't read any of it. Are they long reviews or do they tell you how the sounds we hear were made? I only see reams of text and pictures but can't read it.

It's basically the same principle as Bluesynths - just a review, in-depth look at the features, some history and sound examples, no tutorial on how to create what.

Aw. Guess I'll have to learn german so I can read them.

Or use Babelfish

That's an idea. But usually things translated in babelfish doesn't make much sense, since it just replaces word by word. Could be fun though