Sound Synthesis and Sampling / Edition 3

by Martin Russ

Overview

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 needs and practices- revised and placed in a modern context, providing a guide to the theory of sound and sampling in the context of software and hardware that enables sound making. For the revised edition emphasis is on expanding explanations of software and computers, new sections include techniques for making sound physically, sections within analog and digital electronics. Martin Russ is well known and the book praised for its highly readable and non-mathematical approach making the subject accessible to readers starting out on computer music courses or those working in a studio.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780240521053
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/25/2008
Series:	Music Technology Series
Edition description:	w/ CD-ROM
Pages:	584
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

Background, Computers and software, Making sounds with analogue electronics, Making sounds with analogue/digital hybrid electronics, Making sounds with digital electronics, Making sounds with computer software, Sound-making techniques.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a very good book on the subject. It is detailed enough for the more interested student and easy enough for the average student."—Lecturer (course: Electronic Music), USA

"...provides an excellent technical and historical overview of sound synthesis methods in a non-mathematical way."—Computer Music Journal

Reviews of previous edition:

"This is a very good book on the subject. It is detailed enough for the more interested student and easy enough for the average student."
Lecturer (course: Electronic Music), USA

"...provides an excellent technical and historical overview of sound synthesis methods in a non-mathematical way."
Computer Music Journal

From the Publisher

A comprehensive introduction to the common forms of analog and digital sound synthesis in a non-mathematical treatment that even some drummers might understand. Also suitable as an undergraduate textbook for students of music technology, audio engineering, and acoustics. Includes a glossary without pronunciation but with references to further explanation in the text and a section on jargon, often identifying the ten-thousand alternative terms for the same device or phenomena. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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