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1. |  Adobe® Audition® CC Classroom in a Book® By: Adobe Creative Team Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 21-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Audition® CC Classroom in a Book® The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe
Audition CC
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on
software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training
program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems
Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product
experts.
Adobe Audition CC Classroom in a Book contains 15 lessons
(and one bonus lesson on www.peachpit.com) that cover the basics,
providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more
productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to
finish or...
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2. |  Recording Drums: The Complete Guide By: Mike Major Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 20-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Recording Drums: The Complete Guide Recording great drum sounds is one of the most challenging tasks facing any drummer, audio engineer, or music producer. Capturing the variety, nuance, and excitement of the drum kit and other percussion instruments is part art, part science, and part creative experimentation--and there's a lot more to it than simply setting up a mic and hitting the Record button. In this comprehensive book, recording engineer/producer/mixer Mike Major leads you through the sometimes complex and often misunderstood art of recording drums. Along the way, you'll cover all the ins and outs, including establishing...
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3. |  The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook By: Bobby Owsinski Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 27-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 12-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook Thanks to the revolution in affordable recording and mixing technology, more music is being written, produced, and mixed today than ever before. The mixer's art is now a unique blend of time-tested principles and skillful technique using the latest high-tech tools. If you're ready to learn today's art of mixing, this is the book for you. THE MIXING ENGINEER'S HANDBOOK, 3RD EDITION, is the latest update of the most popular book on audio mixing ever written (more than 150,000 copies sold). Popular producer/engineer, author, and teacher Bobby Owsinski covers all the fundamentals, breaking the...
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4. |  By: Boris Smus Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 14-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Web Audio API Go beyond HTML5’s Audio tag and boost the audio capabilities of your web application with the Web Audio API. Packed with lots of code examples, crisp descriptions, and useful illustrations, this concise guide shows you how to use this JavaScript API to make the sounds and music of your games and interactive applications come alive....
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5. |  By: Richy Pitch Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 19-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Making Beats: Skill Pack MAKING BEATS: SKILL PACK teaches you how to make infectious modern beats from start to finish using popular beat making software such as Native Instruments Battery, Apple Logic Pro, Steinberg Cubase, Propellerhead ReCycle, Audacity, and others. This book explains the detailed process of beat making, what tools make a beat stand out, and how to use digital audio workstations to develop beats and loops that will make listeners nod their heads. You'll learn to edit, play, sequence, quantize, layer, and mix beats with easily accessible plug-ins within Logic, Cubase, and Reason. You'll discover...
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6. |  By: G. W. Childs IV Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 15-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 08-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Going Pro with Reason™ 6.5 GOING PRO WITH REASON 6.5 is an expert level book that addresses the needs of the professional Reason user. This book picks up where the manual leaves off, offering concise, workflow-oriented tutorials on setting up complex productions and workflows for both song creation and producing tracks. Whether you are preparing to compose or produce, and whether you will be in studio or live environments, this valuable resource holds the keys to taking your knowledge to the next level....
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7. |  Structuring Music through Markup Language By: Jacques Steyn Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 04-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Structuring Music through Markup Language Although there have been two main perspectives on the nature of music through systematic and cultural musicology, music informatics has emerged as an interdisciplinary research area which provides a different idea on the nature of music through computer technologies. Structuring Music through Markup Language: Designs and Architectures offers a different approach to music by focusing on the information organization and the development of XML-based language. This book aims to offer a new set of tools on for practical implementations and a new investigation into the theory of music. ...
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8. |  Signal Processing, Perceptual Coding and Watermarking of Digital Audio By: Xing He Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 23-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Signal Processing, Perceptual Coding and Watermarking of Digital Audio The availability of increased computational power and the proliferation of the Internet have facilitated the production and distribution of unauthorized copies of multimedia information. As a result, the problem of copyright protection has attracted the interest of worldwide scientific and business communities.Signal Processing, Perceptual Coding and Watermarking of Digital Audio: Advanced Technologies and Models focuses on watermarking, in which data is marked with hidden ownership information, as a promising solution to copyright protection issues. Compared to embedding watermarks into...
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9. |  LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Beginner's Guide By: David Earl; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 21-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 22-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Beginner's Guide
The beginner’s guide to exploring, understanding, and rocking in the world of dance music using the free LMMS digital audio workstation with this book and ebook.
Create the dance music you wanted. An experienced guide shows you the ropes.
Learn from the best in dance music; its history, its people, and its genres.
Learn the art of making music: from the way you set up your equipment, to polishing up your final mix.
In Detail
You’ve scoured the forums, watched the tutorial videos, and done everything you can to learn the secrets of the art of making dance music. Everyone...
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10. |  By: Douglas Self Publisher: Newnes Publication Date: 28-AUG-2006 Insert Date: 15-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Self on Audio, 2nd Edition
Whether you are a dedicated audiophile who wants to gain a more complete understanding of the design issues behind a truly great amp, or a professional electronic designer seeking to learn more about the art of amplifier design, there can be no better place to start than with the 35 classic magazine articles collected together in this book. Douglas Self offers a tried and tested method for designing audio amplifiers in a way that improves performance at every point in the circuit where distortion can creep in – without significantly increasing cost. Through the articles in this book, he...
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11. |  Audio Electronics, 2nd Edition By: John Linsley Hood Publisher: Newnes Publication Date: 09-DEC-1998 Insert Date: 05-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Audio Electronics, 2nd Edition
This book is a unique electronics text in that it focuses on the electronics of audio design and explores the principles and techniques that underly the successful design and usage of analog and digital equipment.
The second edition includes new material on the latest developments in the field: digital radio and television, Nicam 728, and the latest Dolby noise reduction systems. John Linsley Hood is responsible for numerous amplifier designs that have led the way to better sound, and has also kept up a commentary on developments in audio in magazines such as The Gramophone,...
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12. |  Valve and Transistor Audio Amplifiers By: John Linsley Hood Publisher: Newnes Publication Date: 23-DEC-1997 Insert Date: 05-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Valve and Transistor Audio Amplifiers
The audio amplifier is at the heart of audio design. Its performance determines largely the performance of any audio system. John Linsley Hood is widely regarded as the finest audio designer around, and pioneered design in the post-valve era. His mastery of audio technology extends from valves to the latest techniques. This is John Linsley Hood's greatest work yet, describing the milestones that have marked the development of audio amplifiers since the earliest days to the latest systems.
Including classic amps with valves at their heart and exciting new designs using the latest...
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13. |  Audio Engineering: Know It All By: Douglas Self; Ben Duncan; Ian Sinclair; Richard Brice; John Linsley Hood; Andrew Singmin; Don Davis; Eugene Patronis; John Watkinson Publisher: Newnes Publication Date: 29-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 04-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Audio Engineering: Know It All
The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf! Part I Fundamentals of Sound Chapter 1 Audio Principles Chapter 2. Measurement Chapter 3 Acoustic Environment II. Audio Electronics Chapter 4 Components Chapter 5 Power supply design III Preamplifiers and Amplifiers Chapter 6 Introduction to Audio Amplification CHAPTER 7 Preamplifiers and input signals Chapter 8...
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14. |  Pro Tools All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition By: Jeff Strong Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 03-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 20-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Tools All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
A professional musician guides serious hobbyists through Pro Tool
Pro Tools puts professional recording and music production software in the hands of anyone with the appropriate hardware and the knowledge to use it. Musician and recording engineer Jeff Strong guides you through the latest version of this complex program, offering twice the content of the official guide at a lower price. Eight minibooks cover recording basics, getting started with Pro Tools, recording audio, editing audio, managing MIDI, mixing, mastering, and getting your music to the masses.
The latest version of...
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15. |  Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction By: Mark Grimshaw Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction The sounds that a player hears while immersed in a game can have dramatic effects on that person, opening up a considerable, far-reaching field of research.
Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments researches both how game sound affects a player psychologically, emotionally, and physiologically, and how this relationship itself impacts the design of computer game sound and the development of technology. This compilation also applies beyond the realm of video games to other types of immersive sound, such as soundscape design, gambling machines, emotive and...
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16. |  Pro Tools® 10 Advanced Music Production Techniques By: Robert J. Campbell Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 05-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 14-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Tools® 10 Advanced Music Production Techniques Learn advanced techniques in Pro Tools the way the pros do. PRO TOOLS 10 ADVANCED MUSIC PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES is the official Avid training package focused on the advanced operation of Pro Tools in a professional music production environment. It includes technical insight into both Pro Tools HD and HDX hardware and software, common workflows, and advanced editing and mixing topics. The materials on the supplemental DVD--sample sessions and source files used in the book's many exercises and projects--help to reinforce the skills being learned. This book is used in training for the official...
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17. |  The Guitarist’s Guide to Line 6® Studio Tools By: Chris Buono Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 06-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Guitarist’s Guide to Line 6® Studio Tools THE GUITARIST'S GUIDE TO LINE 6 STUDIO TOOLS introduces guitarists of any experience level to the vast array of innovative hardware and software products available from this pioneering manufacturer. This straightforward guide introduces readers to today's most exciting gear advances, from Line 6 stalwarts--such as their venerable PODs and Variax modeling guitars--to their groundbreaking stompboxes, amps, digital wireless solutions, and recording options! Author and Line 6 user Chris Buono helps you tame the beast that is the Line 6 product collection and get in on today's hottest music trend...
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18. |  Using Software Samplers: Skill Pack By: Nick Batzdorf Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 23-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Using Software Samplers: Skill Pack 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 creating finished programs to make these instruments useful and musical. With a clear, straightforward...
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19. |  Using Logic® Pro’s Synthesizers By: Kevin Anker Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 08-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Using Logic® Pro’s Synthesizers Logic Pro 9 is an industry leader, featuring a comprehensive selection of software synthesizers that allow you to create almost any sound you can conceive of. But the sheer number of options can be overwhelming--even expert synthesizer users need a guide to appreciate the full power of Logic's synths. That's where USING LOGIC PRO'S SYNTHESIZERS comes in. First, you'll master the simple synthesizers, which will make the essential components of synthesis clear to you. Then, you'll build on that knowledge to learn how to use the more complex synths. In addition, you'll learn about hidden...
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20. |  Media Composer® 6: Professional Effects and Compositing By: David East Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 20-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Media Composer® 6: Professional Effects and Compositing MEDIA COMPOSER 6: PROFESSIONAL EFFECTS AND COMPOSITING was created to teach film and video editors about the full range of effects available in Media Composer. In this thorough guide, you'll go far beyond the basics and learn how to apply, design, and build your own effects, how to make full use of all of Media Composer's effects nesting techniques, how to composite various elements using different types of keys, and how to animate effects using key frames and the motion tracker. You'll also get familiar with the Avid FX interface that comes bundled with the Media Composer. Media Composer is...
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