David L. Morton examines the process of invention, innovation, and diffusion of communications technology, using the history of sound recording as the focus. Off the Record demonstrates how the history of both the hardware and the ways people used it is essential for understanding why any particular technology became a fixture in everyday life or faded into obscurity. Morton's approach to the topic differs from most previous works, which have examined the technology's social impact, but not the...
Home Studio Clinic: A Musician's Guide to Professional Recording
by Emile Menasche
Blank Sheet Music Notebook Manuscript Paper
by Dans and Dans Blank Books
You're An Awesome Musician Keep That Shit Up!
by Creabooks Publishings and 4all Notebooks
How to DVJ is THE manual for the new generation of DJ's incorporating all the modern advances in digital technology- vinyl decks are replace by digital decks, and sound is combined with visual imagery. Covering all the basics of scratch, blending and mixing as well as explaining image manipulation such as wipes, layering and fades the book is set to unleash creativity and take DJ's from the bedroom to Ibiza. The accompanying DVD includes tutorial material from the 'pioneer' of DVJing as well as...
Alfred's Teach Yourself Pro Tools LE (Alfred's Teach Yourself)
by Michael Demus
The Quick Start Guide to Starting a Indie Record Label (Start and Run Your Own Record Label, #8)
by James Taylor
Ableton Live 8 (Music Tech Focus, #9)
by Mark Cousins, Hollin Jones, and Mike Hillier
Zkm Digital Art Edition #3: Kiyoshi Furukawa, Masaki Fujihata and Wolfgang Munch
by Volker Grassmuck and Heike Staff
Music Technology and the Project Studio: Synthesis and Sampling provides clear explanations of synthesis and sampling techniques and how to use them effectively and creatively. Starting with analog-style synthesis as a basic model, this textbook explores in detail how messages from a MIDI controller or sequencer are used to control elements of a synthesizer to create rich, dynamic sound. Since samplers and sample players are also common in today's software, the book explores the details of sampl...
For courses covering the Music Business. Often called the musician's bible, this comprehensive manual is the only book that provides a step-by-step guide to navigating the complete process of setting up a recording label as a business and covers everything from business plans and budgets to promotion and sales. Clear, conversational detailed, easy to follow, and well-illustrated, this book has helped revolutionize the recording industry. Includes a foreword by internationally renowned recordin...
Take the mystery out of creating sampled instruments with this one-of-a-kind resource that is dedicated to guiding you through the recording and programming of your own playable sampled instruments. USING SOFTWARE SAMPLERS: SKILL PACK uses popular sample playback and digital audio editing programs to outline the complete sampled instrument creation workflow, beginning with the recording. Coverage then progresses to editing and processing the sounds, mapping the samples on the keyboard, and creat...
The Musician's Guide to Audio (Musician's Guide to Home Recording)
by Craig Anderton
Everything in the studio starts and ends with audio - both analog and digital - yet many musicians know a lot more about the principles of music than the principles behind audio. The Musician's Guide to Audio will include: - Audio theory - sound waves in the real world - Bit resolution - Sample rates - Distortion - The different types of decibels - The meaning of audio specifications - Frequency response - The different types of distortion - Signal-to-noise ratio - Dynamic range - How the human...
Cello exam pieces, complete syllabus 2010-2015 (ABRSM Exam Pieces)
by ABRSM
Recordings of all the Grade 4 pieces from the new ABRSM Cello syllabus from 2010. Exam candidates can use these recordings, which also include 'playalong' piano-only tracks, to help prepare for their ABRSM exams. Series recorded by cellists Alexander Baillie, William Bruce, David Burrowes, Sebastian Comberti, Brian O'Kane, Gemma Rosefield and Tim Wells.
