The lines of this thread venture into things like say for example I wanted to make recordings like Robert Ashley, or Tangerene Dream, or Alan Parson's Edgar Alan Poe. How do you train to be that clever. It's like studying how Reaktor and P-slice, and Mathematica, Maple, and Peavey Revalver with it's adjustable tube swapping and resister and capacitor changing abilities to reflect predictions about acoustic conversation then lets build a color organ out of Max/msp paint up stained glass paintings in Pixarra Twisted Brush and Studio Artist and Art Rage and Corel Painter . In the acoustic world, there are stories about things that have gotten recorded. With synthesizers' there isn't necessarily that kind of consistent heritage analysis. Many useful books that were written for our VST's are out of print and most of us would rather play than analyze the heritage. Which I find fascinating.