Refining Sound: A Practical Guide to Synthesis and Synthesizers
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00FSAE1ZW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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For more information, visit his website at briankshepard.. Brian K. Shepard is Professor of Audio Design Practice and Assistant Dean of the USC Iovine and Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California
Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. Refining Sound is essential for all electronic musicians from amateur to professional levels of accomplishment, students, teachers, libraries, and anyone interested in creating sounds on a synthesizer.. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of the synthesis process, and contains easily digestible guided projects (entitled "Your Turn" sections) that focus on the topics of the chapter. The final chapter brings everything together as the reader creates several common types of synthesizer sounds with detailed step-by-step instructions and explanations of the concepts behind those steps. With all of the sounds in the final chapter, readers are given suggestions and tips on ways to modify the sounds, with final outcomes left to the readers' own creativit
Shepard's book on synthesizers and synthesis is one of those rare volumes which is comprehensive in its explanations of the history of synthesizers and electronic music in general that makes for a jolly good read. Peter Robinson, Composer"I'd venture to say that even veterans will find a few interesting facts here that were previously unknown to thema first rate source of instruction for those with no knowledge or just partial knowledge of subtractive synthesis. Phillips, PhD, Co-director of Music Technology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham"Brian K. This book demystifies many of the topics of synthesis that can be confusing to people."--VJ Manzo, Assistant Professor of Music Technology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and author of Max/MSP/Jitter for Music"Refining Sound is an approachable introducti
"This book is useful only after you've learned to program sounds by ear" according to P.S. Woods. There are way too many books on the market purporting to teach sound design/synth programming. This book is useful only after you've learned to program sounds by ear, at which point it is informative and well organized. However, it will not teach you make sounds deliberately, with purpose. For that I recommend the software tutorial unfortunately titled Syntorial. If that's not an option a distant second place is Welsh's Synthesizer Cookbook.. Amazon Customer said This is a great book if you want to know the science behind. This is a great book if you want to know the science behind synthesis. The author knows his stuff and presents it well.I enjoy this book very much and I've learned a lot from it. I especially like the hands-on sections where you get to hear what you're learning.But minus a star for the free software download (from a third party).Still, this book is a great investment for a techie, with tons of great info.. Justin S Leary said Good all-round book on learning how to work with softsynths. Great book so far (I haven't finished it as yet). Covers a lot of useful territory for those who work with and program softsynths, and has some good info on things like aliasing and the Nyquist theorem. Highly recommended book if you, like me, want to move from a synth preset user to someone who can make their own sounds and patches with a softsynth.