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Logic Pro X - Tips, Tricks, Secrets #1 - A New Type of Manual - The Visual Approach (Paperback): Edgar Rothermich Logic Pro X - Tips, Tricks, Secrets #1 - A New Type of Manual - The Visual Approach (Paperback)
Edgar Rothermich
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Haunted Weather - Music, Silence, and Memory (Paperback, Main): David Toop Haunted Weather - Music, Silence, and Memory (Paperback, Main)
David Toop 2
R434 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated and created. The world of music is now a vast and complex jungle, teeming with CDs, MP3s, concerts, clubs, festivals, conferences, exhibitions, installations, websites, software programmes, scenes, Ideas and competing theories. In the eye of the storm stands David Toop, shedding light on the most interesting music now being made - on laptops, In downtown bars in Tokyo, wherever he finds it. Haunted Weather is part personal memoir and part travel journal, as well as an intensive survey of recent developments in digital technology, sonic theory and musical practice. Along the way Toop probes into the meaning of sound (and silence), offering fascinating insights into how computers can be used for improvisation. His wealth of musical knowledge provides inspiration for anyone interested in music.

Modelling Auditory Processing and Organisation (Paperback, New Ed): Martin Cooke Modelling Auditory Processing and Organisation (Paperback, New Ed)
Martin Cooke
R1,193 Discovery Miles 11 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

We are surrounded by noise; we must be able to separate the signals we want to hear from those we do not. To overcome this 'cocktail party effect' we have developed various strategies; endowing computers with similar abilities would enable the development of devices such as intelligent hearing aids and robust speech recognition systems. This book describes a system which attempts to separate multiple, simultaneous acoustic sources using strategies based on those used by humans. It is both a review of recent work on the modelling of auditory processes, and a presentation of a new model in which acoustic signals are decomposed into elements. These structures are then re-assembled in accordance with rules of auditory organisation which operate to bind together elements that are likely to have arisen from the same source. The model is evaluated by measuring its ability to separate speech from a wide variety of other sounds, including music, phones and other speech.

Electronic Music and Sound Design - Theory and Practice with Max and Msp - Volume 1 (Second Edition) (Paperback, 2nd Upd. for... Electronic Music and Sound Design - Theory and Practice with Max and Msp - Volume 1 (Second Edition) (Paperback, 2nd Upd. for Max 6 ed.)
Alessandro Cipriani, Maurizio Giri
R1,214 Discovery Miles 12 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Second Edition updated for MAX 6) Structured for use in university courses, the book is an overview of the theory and practice of Max/MSP, 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 Max/MSP for sound design and musical composition.

Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem (Paperback): Martin Clancy Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem (Paperback)
Martin Clancy
R1,251 Discovery Miles 12 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cutting-edge perspectives on a hot topic, with few competing titles on the market Contributor list includes some very well known professionals, as well as diverse academics from different disciplines Accessible and interdisciplinary introductory volume

Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action - Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers (Paperback, New): Scott K. Halbritter, Bump... Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action - Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers (Paperback, New)
Scott K. Halbritter, Bump Halbritter
R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

NEW MEDIA THEORY SERIES EDITOR: BYRON HAWK MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION: AUDIO-VISUAL RHETORIC FOR WRITING TEACHERS addresses the current technological challenges and opportunities of writing teachers through a conceptualization of writing and reading that could not have been imagined by many writing teachers at the turn of the twenty-first century. While MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION looks forward to emerging writing technologies, it finds its theoretical foundations by looking back to Kenneth Burke's concept of symbolic action. MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION situates its pedagogy for engaging the multidimensional rhetoric of audio-visual writing to help new and experienced writing teachers select, create, and engage productive models for designing audio-visual writing assignments and curricula. MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION draws upon Erika Lindemann and her pioneering work in A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, as well as the educational theory of John Dewey, the multiliteracy theory of Stuart Selber, and the design philosophy of Robin Williams. Rather than look to the creation and critique of audio-visual texts as the goal of its pedagogy, MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION looks for ways to use the creation and critique of audio-visual texts as a means for realizing a variety of learning goals for writing students. Bump HALBRITTER establishes not only the theoretical foundation for that work but also discusses, in depth, the material demands of working with audio-visual assets that writing teachers have not typically been trained to use: microphones, video cameras, and an array of other peripheral technologies for collecting, storing, and exchanging audio-visual information. BUMP HALBRITTER is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University and is Editor of CCC ONLINE. His work on aural rhetoric and audio-visual writing pedagogy has appeared in KAIROS, ENCULTURATION, COMPUTERS AND COMPOSITION, COLLEGE ENGLISH, and in the edited collection, DIGITAL TOOLS. Halbritter and Julie Lindquist are co-PIs of the long-term research project LiteracyCorps Michigan, a multi-phase research project that uses digital video to investigate and document the literate lives of college students. "The voice and style are one of the Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action's great strengths, as they render the subject approachable and readable to those who might not yet consider themselves a part of rhetoric and composition culture. Halbritter makes a compelling argument for why we should become engaged in the (symbolic) action of multimedia composing." - ERIN KARPER

Virtual Sound - Sound Synthesis and Signal Processing - Theory and Practice with Csound (Paperback): Riccardo Bianchini,... Virtual Sound - Sound Synthesis and Signal Processing - Theory and Practice with Csound (Paperback)
Riccardo Bianchini, Alessandro Cipriani
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Understanding MP3 - Syntax, Semantics, Mathematics, and Algorithms (Paperback): Martin Ruckert Understanding MP3 - Syntax, Semantics, Mathematics, and Algorithms (Paperback)
Martin Ruckert
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Speech Processing & Synthesis Toolboxes +2XCD (WSE) (Hardcover): D.G Childers Speech Processing & Synthesis Toolboxes +2XCD (WSE) (Hardcover)
D.G Childers
R7,044 Discovery Miles 70 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Strike a balance between theory and practice! With this text, you'll, find a balance between theory and practice that allows you to build your understanding of the basic concepts, assumptions, and limitations of the theory of speech analysis and synthesis. The methods for data analysis as well as the theoretical background are provided to help you comprehend the analysis results. And you'll be able to study the features and properties of speech as a signal without having to record data and write software to analyze the data. The text includes two CDs that contain stand-alone and MATLAB software and speech and electroglottographic data. The CDs illustrate the effects that speech models and speech analysis procedures have on the quality of synthesized speech. An extensive speech database provides numerous speech files and other data. Examples included in each chapter demonstrate how to use the software. The CDs allow you to:
* Calculate the parameters of linear prediction speech models.
* Examine procedures for converting the speech of one speaker to sound like that of another speaker (i.e., voice conversion).
* Analyze and alter the temporal structure of the speech signal. This allows you to automatically parse speech into various features, such as voiced segments, unvoiced segments, nasal and non-nasal segments, fricatives, stops, and more.
* Create speech with a "high speaking rate" or generate speech with a "slow speaking rate."
* Adjust the parameters of the vocal fold model to change the vocal fold tension, length, thickness, mass, etc., in order to observe the effects of these parameters on the vibratory motion of the vocal folds.

Making Movies, Photos, Music & DVDs on Your Mac: Using Apple's Digital Hub (Paperback, Ed): Jesse Feiler Making Movies, Photos, Music & DVDs on Your Mac: Using Apple's Digital Hub (Paperback, Ed)
Jesse Feiler
R793 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Get full coverage of Apples hot new suite of fun, creative tools for making movies, photos, dvds and custom music in one volume! Now you can see how easy it is to make your own customized digital creations using iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, and iTunes with help from this detailed, results-oriented guide.

How to Do Everything With MP3 and Digital Music (Paperback): Dave Johnson, Rick Broida How to Do Everything With MP3 and Digital Music (Paperback)
Dave Johnson, Rick Broida
R812 R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Save R84 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A hot new release in the extremely popular How to Do Everything series, this friendly, solutions-oriented book is filled with step-by-step details on how to create, download, upload, play--and even remaster--MP3 and digital music files. Youll also get a completely up-to-date survey of peer-to-peer file sharing services like Napster, Aimster, Gnutella, and others, and details on all the latest and best MP3 players, both desktop and portable.

Speech Enhancement in the STFT Domain (Paperback, 2012 ed.): Jacob Benesty, Jingdong Chen, Emanuel A.P. Habets Speech Enhancement in the STFT Domain (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Jacob Benesty, Jingdong Chen, Emanuel A.P. Habets
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work addresses this problem in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. We divide the general problem into five basic categories depending on the number of microphones being used and whether the interframe or interband correlation is considered. The first category deals with the single-channel problem where STFT coefficients at different frames and frequency bands are assumed to be independent. In this case, the noise reduction filter in each frequency band is basically a real gain. Since a gain does not improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for any given subband and frame, the noise reduction is basically achieved by liftering the subbands and frames that are less noisy while weighing down on those that are more noisy. The second category also concerns the single-channel problem. The difference is that now the interframe correlation is taken into account and a filter is applied in each subband instead of just a gain. The advantage of using the interframe correlation is that we can improve not only the long-time fullband SNR, but the frame-wise subband SNR as well. The third and fourth classes discuss the problem of multichannel noise reduction in the STFT domain with and without interframe correlation, respectively. In the last category, we consider the interband correlation in the design of the noise reduction filters. We illustrate the basic principle for the single-channel case as an example, while this concept can be generalized to other scenarios. In all categories, we propose different optimization cost functions from which we derive the optimal filters and we also define the performance measures that help analyzing them.

Speech Processing and Soft Computing (Paperback, 2011): Sid-Ahmed Selouani Speech Processing and Soft Computing (Paperback, 2011)
Sid-Ahmed Selouani
R1,345 Discovery Miles 13 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Speech Processing and Soft Computing" includes coverage of synergy between speech technology and bio-inspired soft computing methods. Through practical cases, the author explores, dissects and examines how soft computing may complement conventional techniques in speech enhancement and speech recognition in order to provide robust systems. The material is especially useful to graduate students and experienced researchers who are interested in expanding their horizons and investigating new research directions through review of the theoretical and practical settings of soft computing methods in very recent speech applications.

Modern Recording Techniques (Paperback, 9th New edition): David Miles Huber, Robert E. Runstein Modern Recording Techniques (Paperback, 9th New edition)
David Miles Huber, Robert E. Runstein
R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

Modern Recording Techniques is the bestselling, authoritative guide to sound and music recording. Whether you're just starting out or are looking for a step-up in the industry, Modern Recording Techniques provides an in-depth read on the art and technologies of music production. It's a must-have reference for all audio bookshelves. Using its familiar and accessible writing style, this ninth edition has been fully updated, presenting the latest production technologies and includes an in-depth coverage of the DAW, networked audio, MIDI, signal processing and much more. A robust companion website features video tutorials, web-links, an online glossary, flashcards, and a link to the author's blog. Instructor resources include a test bank and an instructor's manual. The ninth edition includes:Updated tips, tricks and insights for getting the best out of your studio; An introduction to the Apple iOS in music production; Introductions to new technologies and important retro studio techniques; The latest advancements in DAW systems, signal processing, mixing and mastering.

Tools Fur Social Listening Und Sentiment-Analyse - Einsatzfelder Und Praxisbeispiele Fur Die Analyse Deutschsprachiger... Tools Fur Social Listening Und Sentiment-Analyse - Einsatzfelder Und Praxisbeispiele Fur Die Analyse Deutschsprachiger Online-Textdaten (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2021 ed.)
Melpomeni Alexa, Melanie Siegel
R1,390 Discovery Miles 13 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture (Paperback): Jeremy Wade Morris Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture (Paperback)
Jeremy Wade Morris
R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the "digital music commodity," Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture considers how a conflicted assemblage of technologies, users, and industries helped reformat popular music's meanings and uses. Through case studies of five key technologies - Winamp, metadata, Napster, iTunes, and cloud computing - this book explores how music listeners gradually came to understand computers and digital files as suitable replacements for their stereos and CD. Morris connects industrial production, popular culture, technology, and commerce in a narrative involving the aesthetics of music and computers, and the labor of producers and everyday users, as well as the value that listeners make and take from digital objects and cultural goods. Above all, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture is a sounding out of music's encounters with the interfaces, metadata, and algorithms of digital culture and of why the shifting form of the music commodity matters for the music and other media we love.

Pure Data - Electronic Music and Sound Design - Theory and Practice - Volume 1 (Paperback): Francesco Bianchi, Cipriani... Pure Data - Electronic Music and Sound Design - Theory and Practice - Volume 1 (Paperback)
Francesco Bianchi, Cipriani Alessandro, Giri Maurizio
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Web Audio API (Paperback): Boris Smus Web Audio API (Paperback)
Boris Smus
R400 R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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. You need little or no digital audio expertise to get started. Author Boris Smus introduces you to digital audio concepts, then shows you how the Web Audio API solves specific application audio problems. You'll not only learn how to synthesize and process digital audio, you'll also explore audio analysis and visualization with this API. Learn Web Audio API, including audio graphs and the audio nodes Provide quick feedback to user actions by scheduling sounds with the API's precise timing model Control gain, volume, and loudness, and dive into clipping and crossfading Understand pitch and frequency: use tools to manipulate soundforms directly with JavaScript Generate synthetic sound effects and learn how to spatialize sound in 3D space Use Web Audio API with the Audio tag, getUserMedia, and the Page Visibility API

Making Musical Apps (Paperback): Peter Brinkmann Making Musical Apps (Paperback)
Peter Brinkmann
R594 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R109 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Pure Data (Pd) is a graphical programming environment for audio and more; libpd is a wrapper that turns Pd into a portable, embeddable audio library. Brian Eno's soundtrack of the game Spore is generated by Pure Data. Inception The App is based on libpd and has been downloaded more than three million times. The popular RJDJ also uses the technology. The purpose of this book is to present tools and techniques for using Pure Data and libpd as an audio engine in mobile apps (for Android and iOS). The tools described are perfect for the sound engine for a game or for transforming a phone or tablet into an experimental instrument. After reading the book, audio developers will know how to prepare Pd patches for use with libpd, and app developers will know how to use all features of the libpd API. Readers with some experience in both computer music and mobile development will be able to create complete musical apps. The book includes a crash course in Pd, just enough to allow readers to make sounds and control them, as well as a discussion of existing solutions for rapidly deploying Pd patches to mobile devices. An introduction to Android or iOS development is beyond the scope of this book; readers will be expected to have a basic grasp of their platform of choice, including a working development setup. The book will, however, explain how to integrate libpd into an existing setup. A number of sample apps, ranging from minimal to full featured, for both Android and iOS, will illustrate all major points.

Sentiment-Analyse Deutschsprachiger Meinungsausserungen - Grundlagen, Methoden Und Praktische Umsetzung (German, Paperback, 1.... Sentiment-Analyse Deutschsprachiger Meinungsausserungen - Grundlagen, Methoden Und Praktische Umsetzung (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2020 ed.)
Melanie Siegel, Melpomeni Alexa
R987 Discovery Miles 9 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Refining Sound - A Practical Guide to Synthesis and Synthesizers (Paperback): Brian K Shepard Refining Sound - A Practical Guide to Synthesis and Synthesizers (Paperback)
Brian K Shepard
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. As author, veteran synthesizer instructor Brian K. Shepard draws on his years of experience in synthesizer pedagogy in order to peel back the often-mysterious layers of sound synthesis one-by-one. The result is a book which allows readers to familiarize themselves with each individual step in the synthesis process, in turn empowering them in their own creative or experimental work. The book follows the stages of synthesis in chronological progression, starting readers at the raw materials of sound creation and ultimately bringing them to the final "polishing" stage. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of the synthesis process, culminating in a last chapter that brings everything together as the reader creates his/her own complex sounds. Throughout the text, the material is supported by copious examples and illustrations as well as by audio files and synthesis demonstrations on a related companion website. Each chapter contains easily digestible guided projects (entitled "Your Turn" sections) that focus on the topics of the corresponding chapter. In addition to this, one complete project will be carried through each chapter of the book cumulatively, allowing the reader to follow - and build - a sound from start to finish. The final chapter includes several sound creation projects in which readers are given types of sound to create as well as some suggestions and tips, with final outcomes is left to readers' own creativity. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of learning to create sounds on a synthesizer is to understand exactly what each synthesizer component does independent of the synthesizer's numerous other components. Not only does this book thoroughly illustrate and explain these individual components, but it also offers numerous practical demonstrations and exercises that allow the reader to experiment with and understand these elements without the distraction of the other controls and modifiers. Refining Sound is essential for all electronic musicians from amateur to professional levels of accomplishment, students, teachers, libraries, and anyone interested in creating sounds on a synthesizer.

Chatbots Gestalten Mit Praxisbeispielen Der Schweizerischen Post - Hmd Best Paper Award 2018 (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2020... Chatbots Gestalten Mit Praxisbeispielen Der Schweizerischen Post - Hmd Best Paper Award 2018 (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2020 ed.)
Toni Stucki, Sara D'Onofrio, Edy Portmann
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Understanding Video Game Music (Paperback): Tim Summers Understanding Video Game Music (Paperback)
Tim Summers; Foreword by James Hannigan
R816 R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Save R100 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Understanding Video Game Music develops a musicology of video game music by providing methods and concepts for understanding music in this medium. From the practicalities of investigating the video game as a musical source to the critical perspectives on game music - using examples including Final Fantasy VII, Monkey Island 2, SSX Tricky and Silent Hill - these explorations not only illuminate aspects of game music, but also provide conceptual ideas valuable for future analysis. Music is not a redundant echo of other textual levels of the game, but central to the experience of interacting with video games. As the author likes to describe it, this book is about music for racing a rally car, music for evading zombies, music for dancing, music for solving puzzles, music for saving the Earth from aliens, music for managing a city, music for being a hero; in short, it is about music for playing.

Audio Processing and Speech Recognition - Concepts, Techniques and Research Overviews (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019): Soumya Sen,... Audio Processing and Speech Recognition - Concepts, Techniques and Research Overviews (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Soumya Sen, Anjan Dutta, Nilanjan Dey
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers an overview of audio processing, including the latest advances in the methodologies used in audio processing and speech recognition. First, it discusses the importance of audio indexing and classical information retrieval problem and presents two major indexing techniques, namely Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) and Phonetic Search. It then offers brief insights into the human speech production system and its modeling, which are required to produce artificial speech. It also discusses various components of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. Describing the chronological developments in ASR systems, and briefly examining the statistical models used in ASR as well as the related mathematical deductions, the book summarizes a number of state-of-the-art classification techniques and their application in audio/speech classification. By providing insights into various aspects of audio/speech processing and speech recognition, this book appeals a wide audience, from researchers and postgraduate students to those new to the field.

Bayesian Speech and Language Processing (Hardcover): Shinji Watanabe, Jen-Tzung Chien Bayesian Speech and Language Processing (Hardcover)
Shinji Watanabe, Jen-Tzung Chien
R2,948 Discovery Miles 29 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With this comprehensive guide you will learn how to apply Bayesian machine learning techniques systematically to solve various problems in speech and language processing. A range of statistical models is detailed, from hidden Markov models to Gaussian mixture models, n-gram models and latent topic models, along with applications including automatic speech recognition, speaker verification, and information retrieval. Approximate Bayesian inferences based on MAP, Evidence, Asymptotic, VB, and MCMC approximations are provided as well as full derivations of calculations, useful notations, formulas, and rules. The authors address the difficulties of straightforward applications and provide detailed examples and case studies to demonstrate how you can successfully use practical Bayesian inference methods to improve the performance of information systems. This is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and industry practitioners working in machine learning, signal processing, and speech and language processing.

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