Performing Electronic Music Live
Performing Electronic Music Live

Author: Kirsten Hermes

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-12-28

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1000470261

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Performing Electronic Music Live lays out conceptual approaches, tools, and techniques for electronic music performance, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI controllers, traditional instruments, live sound design, hardware setups, custom software and hardware, to live visuals, venue acoustics, and live show promotion. Through case studies and contrasting tutorials by successful artists, Kirsten Hermes explores the many different ways in which you can create memorable experiences on stage. Featuring interviews with highly accomplished musicians and practitioners, readers can also expand on their knowledge with hands-on video tutorials for each chapter via the companion website, performingelectronicmusic.live. Performing Electronic Music Live is an essential, all-encompassing resource for professionals, students of music production courses, and researchers in the field of creative-focused performance technology.

Pure Data
Pure Data

Author: Francesco Bianchi

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9788899212216

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The book is an overview of the theory and practice of Pure Data, with a glossary of terms and suggested tests that allow students to evaluate their progress. Comprehensive online support, running parallel to the explanations in the book, includes hundreds of sample patches, analyses, interactive sound-building exercises, and reverse engineering exercises. This book will provide a reader with skill and understanding in using Pure Data for sound design and musical composition.

Gaming the System
Gaming the System

Author: Katie Salen Tekinbas

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2014-10-10

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 026202781X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Understanding games as systems, with complex interactions of game elements and rules. Gaming the System demonstrates the nature of games as systems, how game designers need to think in terms of complex interactions of game elements and rules, and how to identify systems concepts in the design process. The activities use Gamestar Mechanic, an online game design environment with a systems thinking focus.

Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd
Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd

Author: Eric Lyon

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0895797151

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Accompanying CD-ROM contains complete code for all projects presented in the book. The Max/MSP externals are designed for use with Max 5.

Sound FX
Sound FX

Author: Alex Case

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 113612358X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

FX introduces today's up and coming musician to the fantastic creative potential of the most popular instrument today- the home studio. Explaining the basic and advanced signal processing techniques used in professional music production (EQ, compression, delay, reverb etc), using real world popular music examples and an emphasis on the perceptual results and musical value of these effects, FX teaches the Recording Musician how to achieve professional production standards and maximise their creative potential. The accompanying website www.soundfx-companion.com includes audio exaples of FX featured in the book. Features: A chapter dedicated to each key effect: Distortion Equalization Compression and Limiting Delay Expansion and Gating Pitch Shift Reverb Volume More than 100 line drawings and illustrations. Accompanying website featuring examples of all FX covered in the book. Discography of FX at the end of each relevant chapter. From the Sound FX Intro: The most important music of our time is recorded music. The recording studio is its principle musical instrument. The recording engineers and music producers who create the music we love know how to use signal processing equipment to capture the work of artists, preserving realism or altering things wildly, as appropriate. While the talented, persistent, self-taught engineer can create sound recordings of artistic merit, more productive use of the studio is achieved through study, experience and collaboration. This book defines the technical basis of the most important signal processing effects used in the modern recording studio, highlights the key drivers of sound quality associated with each, shares common production techniques used by recording engineers with significant experience in the field, references many of the touchstone recordings of our time, and equips the reader with the knowledge needed to comfortably use effects devices correctly, and, more importantly, to apply these tools creatively.

Max/MSP/Jitter for Music
Max/MSP/Jitter for Music

Author: V. J. Manzo

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0190243740

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, author and music technologist V. J. Manzo provides a user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction. This second edition brings the book fully up-to-date with new applications in integrating Max with Ableton Live and offers source code for a variety of new projects.

Musical Sound Effects
Musical Sound Effects

Author: Jean-Michel Réveillac

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-12-27

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1119482682

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For decades performers, instrumentalists, composers, technicians and sound engineers continue to manipulate sound material. They are trying with more or less success to create, to innovate, improve, enhance, restore or modify the musical message. The sound of distorted guitar of Jimi Hendrix, Pierre Henry’s concrete music, Pink Flyod’s rock psychedelic, Kraftwerk ‘s electronic music, Daft Punk and rap T-Pain, have let emerge many effects: reverb, compression, distortion, auto-tune, filter, chorus, phasing, etc. The aim of this book is to introduce and explain these effects and sound treatments by addressing their theoretical and practical aspects.

Designing Sound
Designing Sound

Author: Andy Farnell

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2010-08-20

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 0262014416

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A practitioner's guide to the basic principles of creating sound effects using easily accessed free software. 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 practitioner's perspective, exploring the basic principles of making ordinary, everyday sounds using an easily accessed free software. Readers use the Pure Data (Pd) language to construct sound objects, which are more flexible and useful than recordings. Sound is considered as a process, rather than as data—an approach sometimes known as “procedural audio.” Procedural sound is a living sound effect that can run as computer code and be changed in real time according to unpredictable events. Applications include video games, film, animation, and media in which sound is part of an interactive process. The book takes a practical, systematic approach to the subject, teaching by example and providing background information that offers a firm theoretical context for its pragmatic stance. [Many of the examples follow a pattern, beginning with a discussion of the nature and physics of a sound, proceeding through the development of models and the implementation of examples, to the final step of producing a Pure Data program for the desired sound. Different synthesis methods are discussed, analyzed, and refined throughout.] After mastering the techniques presented in Designing Sound, students will be able to build their own sound objects for use in interactive applications and other projects