The Stage Lighting Handbook is well established as the classic practical lighting guide. The book explains the process of designing lighting for all forms of stage production and describes the equipment used. This new edition includes up-to-date inf…
Go beyond the basics of Ableton Live 8 with this book of audio making and mangling recipes, tips, and mixing/mastering techniques. Ableton Live is undoubtedly the most flexible audio application available today: Use it for sound design for music, fi…
After decades of anticipation, Alfred is proud to release the officially licensed, collectible sheet music companion folios to The Legend of Zelda(tm) video game series. The 33 arrangements in this intermediate-advanced piano edition are note-for-no…
Whatever your level of experience, the Dance Music Manual is packed with sound advice, techniques, and practical examples to help you achieve professional results. Written by a professional producer and remixer, this book offers a comprehensive appr…
If you want to go beyond the basics of creating and producing music with Logic Pro, this Apple-certified guide is for you. Whether you're a composer, producer, songwriter, engineer, studio programmer, or simply a music-lover who wants to create or p…
This comprehensive handbook of mathematical and programming techniques for audio signal processing will be an essential reference for all computer musicians, computer scientists, engineers, and anyone interested in audio. Designed to be used by read…
Since its initial release in 1997, Paul Gilreath's The Guide to MIDI Orchestration has been the premiere text on creating realistic emulations of a symphony orchestra using samplers and computer recording techniques. Now in its fourth edition, The G…
Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive history of electronic music, covering key composers, genres, and techniques used in both analog and digital synthesis. This textbook has been…
Written with the band's co-operation, the author's biography focuses on this private, frequently misunderstood group and their lives, which have been bizarre, hilarious, extreme and destructive through three decades of success and excessive celebrat…
Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary. Something radically new--an extraordinary rarity in musical culture--it was…
Musicians begin formal training by acquiring a body of musical concepts commonly known as musicianship. These concepts underlie the musical skills of listening, performance, and composition. Like humans, computer music programs can benefit from a sy…
Contemporary electronic music has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic, popular and avant-garde electronic musicians, is it possible to derive an…
The Digital Musician is a textbook for creative music technology and electronic music courses. It provides an overview of sound properties, acoustics, digital music, and sound design as a basis for understanding the compositional possibilities that…
Cubase provides the user with many more tracks than bands from the '60s, '70s, and '80s ever had at their disposal. Many iconic records were produced on 2-, 3-, and 4-track recorders, whereas the track count of Cubase 6 is limited only by the power…
Din egen musikstudio Cubase är ett av de allra mest använda programmen för att använda datorn som musikstudio. Boken guidar dig genom programmets många delar och visar med tydliga exempel på hur de olika funktionerna och verktygen kan komma till anv…
Design and implement video game sound from beginning to end with this hands-on course in game audio. Music and sound effects speak to players on a deep level, and this book will show you how to design and implement powerful, interactive sound that m…
After decades of anticipation, Alfred is proud to release the officially licensed, collectible sheet music companion folios to the Super Mario Bros.(tm) video game series. The 34 arrangements in this intermediate-advanced piano edition are note-for-…
After decades of anticipation, Alfred is proud to release the officially licensed, collectible sheet music companion folios to The Legend of Zelda(tm) video game series. The 33 arrangements in this Easy Piano edition contain the instantly recognizab…
In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the convention that recordings should recreate the illusion of a concert hall setting. The Wall of Sound that Phil Spector built behind various artists and the intricate eclecticism of George Mar…
Every session, every gig, every day, recording engineers strive to make the most of their audio signal processing devices. EQ, Compression, Delay, Distortion, Reverb and all those other FX are the well-worn tools of the audio trade. Recording and mi…
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making - as well as creatively cannibalizing - electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure a…
"This is the book that you'll want to read about podcasting--the technology that everyday people, in addition to the big-name radio networks, are using to broadcast to the world." -- Robert Scoble, Vice President Media Development, Podtech.net Creat…
Prepare yourself to be a great producer when using Pro Tools in your studio. Pro Tools 9 for Music Production is the definitive guide to the software for new and professional users, providing you with all the vital skills you need to know. Covering…
Not just another theory-heavy digital signal processing book, nor another dull build-a-generic-database programming book, Designing Audio Effect Plug-Ins in C++ gives you everything you everything you need to know to do just that, including fully wo…
From roots in '70s New York disco and '80s Detroit techno to today's international, mainstream explosion of such genres as house, trance, and dubstep, electronic dance music has reshaped the popular musical landscape. This book digs deep through the…
Denna bok är inte en manual. Den är en lärobok. Du får lära dig hur du använder Cubase 4 för att spela in musik på din dator. Boken börjar från grunden och går igenom, inte bara hur du arbetar i Cubase 4, utan också hur då får din dator och ditt hem…
Offers a non-technical overview of all the major areas in the computer processing of human speech: speech recognition; speech synthesis; speaker recognition; language identification, lip synchronisation; and co-channel separation. The text's intuiti…
Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis. The text takes a p…
Dialogue editing is a crucial yet invisible part of filmmaking. Do it right, and no one notices. Do it wrong, and your film or video sounds messy, distracting, and unrealistic. This is a book for people who need to edit production sound for film, TV…
In this new edition of the classic text on the history and evolution of electronic music, Peter Manning extends the definitive account of the medium from its birth to include key developments from the dawn of the 21st century to the present day. Aft…
Tune in to this fun and friendly guide and get great sounds If you're ready to record your own musical masterpiece, then you need this fun and friendly guide. Updated to cover the latest technologies and recording techniques, this new edition shows…
Sound Synthesis and Sampling' provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect current nee…
A guide to becoming a disc jockey covers such topics as choosing and setting up equipment, harmonic mixing, choosing records, building a record collection, and how to find ajob.
After decades of anticipation, Alfred is proud to release the officially licensed, collectible sheet music companion folios to the Super Mario Bros.(tm) video game series. The 34 arrangements in this Easy Piano edition contain the instantly recogniz…
Master the art of audio power amplifier design This comprehensive book on audio power amplifier design will appeal to members of the professional audio engineering community as well as the hobbyist. Designing Audio Power Amplifiers begins with power…
The soundtrack to Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros.(tm) Wii is packed with melodic, syncopated themes that sound great on the piano With this officially licensed sheet music collection, intermediate to advanced pianists can dazzle friends and family…
Eargle's Microphone Book is the only guide you will ever need for the latest in microphone technology, application and technique. This new edition features more on microphone arrays and wireless microphones, new material on digital models; the lates…
Due to limited publicly available software and lack of documentation, those involved with production volume rendering often have to start from scratch creating the necessary elements to make their system work. Production Volume Rendering: Design and…
For CS1 Java pogramming. Using the video game generation's fascination with digital multimedia as a springboard, this text teaches Java programming in a context that students find relevant and useful. Students learn to program using Java while creat…
The globally beloved musical themes of Nintendo's Super Mario(tm) video games sound great when they're played on the piano, and these new jazzy renditions make them more fun than ever Each arrangement in this collection was crafted under direct supe…
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-a…
The sound recorder is the 'mirror with a memory' for those who listen. With it we can capture glimpses of our reality, producing 'pictures' as we express ourselves. These may ultimately serve as reminders of who we were and of our dreams...Your reco…
*New from the author of Home Recording for Musicians For Dummies, the #1 bestselling home-recording book *Shows how to set up a PC for recording, getting sounds, mixing, mastering, and outputting and explains how to get the best sounds out of a PC s…
Audio productions are made or broken by the quality of the recording engineer's ears. The ability to properly discern sounds, identify subtle problems, and act accordingly to apply the necessary fix makes all the difference in the quality of the fin…
Den här boken handlar om tekniker, standarder och protokoll som möjliggör tjänster där ljud och bild sänds över nätverk. Bokens upplägg kretsar kring tre modeller av ett multimediasystem. Den lagerbaserade där människan ställer krav på tjänstekvalit…
Turn your musical passion into a profitable career with this exhaustive, indispensable resource for game audio. Develop the business and technical skills you need to succeed in the multibillion dollar games industry. Step-by-step instructions lead y…
From initial track laying through to mixing, sound design, and mastering Mark Cousins and Russ Hepworth- Sawyer bring you Logic Pro 9. By Highlighting the relevant parts of each application they take you through every step of the music creation and…
(Music Sales America). Many musicians are put off using MIDI by the very books meant to explain it. This one is different. By using references to everyday items such as television or the telephone, Basic Midi is actually extremely logical and straig…
This book offers a quick guide and complete reference to the fundamentals of test and measurement for all aspects of sound engineering. Including electrical and acoustic testing, measurement systems, levels, methods, protecting the ear, units of mea…