If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.
The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.