Product Description: Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of learning to create sounds on a synthesizer is understanding what all the individual synthesizer components contribute to the complex finished sound...read more

Product Description: Using Logic Pro's Synthesizers explores the synthesizers included in Apple's best-selling music composition program, Apple Logic Pro 8. No other book focuses exclusively on the software instruments of Logic Pro. The book explains what each synthesizer sounds like, how it operates, and how to achieve the sonic results you want...read more

Sound Synthesis and Sampling provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This second edition has been rigorously updated throughout and includes a new chapter on performance, examining how synthesizers have become embedded within more sophisticated musical performance instruments.Martin Russ' highly readable and non-mathematical approach makes the subject accessible whatever your level of experience. The book features:· Detailed illustrations to aid your understanding· Topics presented in bite-size sections within each chapter· Additional notes in the margin to reinforce important points· Examples of representative instruments and software· Time lines showing the development of a topic in its historical context· Questions at the end of each chapter for checking your comprehension· A glossary for quick reference· A jargon guide to demystify the varied terminologyAs such, the book is particularly suitable for students of music technology, audio engineering, acoustics, electronics and related courses. Musicians, engineers and multimedia specialists will also want to keep a copy to hand for reference..

From hit records to home studios, synthesizers are used in almost every genre of music. This book fills the know-how gap left by skimpy or garbled owner's manuals. It maps out the components of contemporary synths in clear, concise detail, and discusses how they can be harnessed to achieve specific musical effects. Each chapter presents hands-on projects that help musicians hone their skills. The companion CDROM contains audio examples that teach programming techniques.

Explains what a synthesizer is, how synthesized music developed, and how it works. (view table of contents)

Provides information for musicans on power supplies and sources, filters, amplifiers, sequencers, keyboards, attenuators and processors

Product Description: This book will give you an understanding of acoustic instruments and voices that will dramatically improve your knowledge of sound production and arranging.

Product Description: (Technical). This book provides a complete step-by-step presentation of all of the sampling skills one would need to master this technology. Some of the techniques covered include: looping, splicing, multi-sampling, velocity crossfading, resynthesis, choosing the best sampling rate, key mapping and much more...read more

Explains how synthesizers work, describes the features of top commercial models, and shows how to build a synthesizer

Product Description: Library copy with expected shelfwear and signs of handling. No marks, holes, folds or tears. Spine intact, all pages flat.

Product Description: Simple Answers to Common Questions About The New Musical Technology Confused by the rapid pace of music technology, and perhaps a little threatened by it all? Relax. This book will explain, simply and briefly, the whats, hows, and whys of it all...read more

Product Description: Computers have assumed a pivotal role in music-making as the power to convert sound into numbers creates unimaginable artistic options for the musician. The editors of Keyboard magazine have revised and expanded the original edition of this book to include the latest in technical advances and creative application for the use of computers in music...read more

Traces the history of electronic musical instruments, looks at the designers of synthesizers, and shares interviews with musicians and composers who use electronic instruments

Product Description: Book by Friedman, Dean

Discusses the fundamental principles of electronic music, supplies clear instructions on how to operate an electronic synthesizer, and surveys the various types of synthesizers and accessory equipment