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The synthesizer : a comprehensive guide to understanding, programming, playing, and recording the ultimate electronic music instrument
- Title
- The synthesizer : a comprehensive guide to understanding, programming, playing, and recording the ultimate electronic music instrument / Mark Vail.
- Author
- Vail, Mark
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 410 pages; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-374) and index.
- Contents
- Trendsetting all-stars. Control ; Sound ; Performance ; Interface ; Composition ; Beyond -- Acoustics and synthesis basics. Real-world acoustics ; Types of synthesis ; Audio sources : oscillators, noise, and more ; VCAs, envelopes, and LFOs ; Envelope followers and pitch-to-voltage converters ; Filters ; EQs and filter banks ; Analog sequencers ; Arpeggiators ; Reverb ; Analog delay ; Digital delay ; Loopers ; Other effects -- Choosing your synthesizer(s). Options ; Modular synthesizers in the twenty-first century ; Connectivity ; Controllers ; Noise toys -- Composition, programming, and performance techniques. Composition ; Patching, aka programming ; Performance -- Recording the synthesizer. As it was and how it's become for the Switched-on innovator ; Serial vs. random-access media ; Strategies for recording film and TV scores ; Harnessing the power of modular synths with Ableton Live ; Automated mixing ; Outboard processing : preparing audion for recording ; Recording direct and expanding for surround-sound -- Appendix A. Selected bibliography, films, and museums -- Appendix B. Manufacturers, forums, blogs, dealers, and stores.
- Call Number
- JMF 14-23
- ISBN
- 9780195394818 (alk. paper)
- 019539481X (alk. paper)
- 9780195394894 (alk. paper)
- 0195394895 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013008727
- OCLC
- 830837518
- Author
- Vail, Mark, author.
- Title
- The synthesizer : a comprehensive guide to understanding, programming, playing, and recording the ultimate electronic music instrument / Mark Vail.
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-374) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JMF 14-23