Electronic Music Systems
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 3:25 pm
Hi you all.
I posted this before and somehow the post disappeared. It is a link to a book about electronic music instruments which I found very useful for getting a general understanding of electronic music.
The book is provided as a download on archive.org.
Archive.org is a member of the American Library Association. (https://archive.org/about/)
Quote: "The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge."
The book itself is considered to be in the public domain. It has been in print in the 1970s. The last edition was offered for 15 bucks by McGraw-Hill who discontinued its publication as a pdf. You can find used hard-copies on amazon for anything beyond 150$s, which is a lot of money for a paperback.
Quote from a review on amazon.de:
"From the basics to the most advanced techniques for sound synthesis, this is the definitive text. I do not have the faintest notion as to why this book is out of print.
Every bit of information in its 150 or so pages is as current for the understanding and programming of todays virtual and hardware synths as it was to the modular synths of the 70's when this book was written. It is an incredibly easy read considering the depth of the information presented.
As an example, in reading this book, I now understand how and why I can use a ring modulator as an audio gate. Ever wonder why you can reproduce a 20 kHz sine wave with only two samples if sampling at 40kHz as per the Nyquist criterion. The straightforward explanation of the concepts of electronic signals will help you in the understanding. I feel comfortable with additive synthesis, subtractive synthesis, what FM is, what AM is and how these techniques are applicable in generating and sculpting electronic sounds."
Maybe the initial post was deleted by accident or under the assumption that I was violating copyright. I am quite sure that this is not the case. Archive.org does offer other books via an Adobe DRM-App, just like a regular library. If the book was still under a copyright-regime, they wouldn't offer it for download.
If for other reasons links of that kind don't want to be found in the forum, please let me know and I will refrain from posting anything alike inthe future.
Here it is:
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicM ... lenStrange
Regards
Phil
I posted this before and somehow the post disappeared. It is a link to a book about electronic music instruments which I found very useful for getting a general understanding of electronic music.
The book is provided as a download on archive.org.
Archive.org is a member of the American Library Association. (https://archive.org/about/)
Quote: "The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge."
The book itself is considered to be in the public domain. It has been in print in the 1970s. The last edition was offered for 15 bucks by McGraw-Hill who discontinued its publication as a pdf. You can find used hard-copies on amazon for anything beyond 150$s, which is a lot of money for a paperback.
Quote from a review on amazon.de:
"From the basics to the most advanced techniques for sound synthesis, this is the definitive text. I do not have the faintest notion as to why this book is out of print.
Every bit of information in its 150 or so pages is as current for the understanding and programming of todays virtual and hardware synths as it was to the modular synths of the 70's when this book was written. It is an incredibly easy read considering the depth of the information presented.
As an example, in reading this book, I now understand how and why I can use a ring modulator as an audio gate. Ever wonder why you can reproduce a 20 kHz sine wave with only two samples if sampling at 40kHz as per the Nyquist criterion. The straightforward explanation of the concepts of electronic signals will help you in the understanding. I feel comfortable with additive synthesis, subtractive synthesis, what FM is, what AM is and how these techniques are applicable in generating and sculpting electronic sounds."
Maybe the initial post was deleted by accident or under the assumption that I was violating copyright. I am quite sure that this is not the case. Archive.org does offer other books via an Adobe DRM-App, just like a regular library. If the book was still under a copyright-regime, they wouldn't offer it for download.
If for other reasons links of that kind don't want to be found in the forum, please let me know and I will refrain from posting anything alike inthe future.
Here it is:
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicM ... lenStrange
Regards
Phil