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The Synthesizer : : a Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument

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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 audio for recording ; Recording direct and expanding for surround-sound -- Appendix A. Selected bibliography, films, and museums -- Appendix B. Manufacturers, forums, blogs, dealers, and stores.

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PUBLISHED
New York City : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: xv, 410 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780195394818
0195394895

SUBJECTS
Synthesizer (Musical instrument) -- Instruction and study.
Electronic music -- Instruction and study.