Electronic and computer music requires sophisticated tools, considerable skill in studio work, and a thorough understanding of digital audio techniques. Having become the definitive reference book over the years, Digital Audio is aimed at all sound technicians and engineers, as well as composers and musicians who wish to discover or refine their skills in this field.
Extensively illustrated with diagrams, screenshots and photos
Electronic and computer music requires sophisticated tools, considerable skill in studio work, and a thorough understanding of digital audio techniques. Over the years, it has become the definitive reference book, Digital audio It is aimed at all sound technicians and engineers as well as musicians and composers who wish to discover this field or improve their skills.
Lavishly illustrated with diagrams, screenshots and photos, this book presents all the theoretical, practical and aesthetic aspects of the synthesis and processing of a sound signal in a digital environment:
- The first part deals with the environment and tools: mixing, digital filters, spatialization and reverb, pitch and rhythm, spectral analysis methods, MIDI, etc.
- The second part deals with sampling and then describes in detail all types of sound synthesis: additive, granular, pulsar, modulation, formant, graphic, etc.
This 3e edition It is enriched with two new chapters devoted to methods by atomic decomposition and concatenative synthesis.
