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The MIDI Manual is a complete reference on MIDI, written by a
well-respected sound engineer and author. This best-selling guide
provides a clear explanation of what MIDI is, how to use electronic
instruments and an explanation of sequencers and how to use them.
You will learn how to set up an efficient MIDI system and how to
get the best out of your music.
The MIDI Manual is packed full of useful tips and practical
examples on sequencing and mixing techniques. It also covers
editors/librarians, working with a score, MIDI in mass media and
multimedia and synchronisation. The MIDI spec is set out in detail
along with the helpful guidelines on using the implementation
chart.
Illustrated throughout with helpful photos and screengrabs, this is
the most readable and clear book on MIDI available.
* Complete illustrated guide to the MIDI spec and explanation of
the implementation chart
* Practical advice on sampling and sequencing, covering all the
major DAWs
* Includes all the latest developments in hardware and software
Leverage the power of FL Studio 20 to create and compose
production-quality songs and develop professional music production
skills Key Features Leverage the power of FL Studio to create your
own production-level music Develop widely applicable music
production skills and learn how to promote your music Utilize
cutting-edge tools to fuel your creative ideas and publish your
songs Book DescriptionFL Studio is a cutting-edge software music
production environment and an extremely powerful and easy-to-use
tool for creating music. This book will give you everything you
need to produce music with FL Studio like a professional. You'll
begin by exploring FL Studio 20's vast array of tools, and discover
best practices, tips, and tricks for creating music. You'll then
learn how to set up your studio environment, create a beat, compose
a melody and chord progression, mix sounds with effects, and export
songs. As you advance, you'll find out how to use tools such as the
Piano roll, mixer console, audio envelopes, types of compression,
equalizers, vocoders, vocal chops, and tools for increasing stereo
width. The book introduces you to mixing best practices, and shows
you how to master your songs. Along the way, you'll explore glitch
effects and create your own instruments and custom-designed effect
chains. You'll also cover ZGameEditor Visualizer, a tool used for
creating reactive visuals for your songs. Finally, you'll learn how
to register, sell, and promote your music. By the end of this FL
Studio book, you'll be able to utilize cutting-edge tools to fuel
your creative ideas, mix music effectively, and publish your songs.
What you will learn Get up and running with FL Studio 20 Record
live instruments and vocals and process them Compose melodies and
chord progressions on the Piano roll Discover mixing techniques and
apply effects to your tracks Explore best practices to produce
music like a professional Publish songs in online stores and
promote your music effectively Who this book is forThis book is for
music producers, composers, songwriters, DJs, and audio engineers
interested in creating their own music, improving music production
skills, mixing and mastering music, and selling songs online. To
get started with this book, all you need is a computer and FL
Studio.
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
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.
The turn of the millennium has heralded an outgrowth of culture
that demonstrates an awareness of the ephemeral nature of history
and the complexity underpinning the relationship between location
and the past. This has been especially apparent in the shifting
relationship between landscape, memory and sound in film,
television and other media. The result is growing interest in
soundtracks, as part of audiovisual culture, as well as an interest
in the spectral aspects of culture more generally. This collection
of essays focuses on audiovisual forms that foreground landscape,
sound and memory. The scope of inquiry emphasises the ghostly
qualities of a certain body of soundtracks, extending beyond merely
the idea of 'scary films' or 'haunted houses.' Rather, the notion
of sonic haunting is tied to ideas of trauma, anxiety or nostalgia
associated with spatial and temporal dislocation in contemporary
society. Touchstones for the approach are the concepts of
psychogeography and hauntology, pervasive and established critical
strategies that are interrogated and refined in relation to the
reification of the spectral within the soundtracks under
consideration here.
How did the introduction of recorded music affect the production,
viewing experience, and global export of movies? In Movies, Songs,
and Electric Sound, Charles O'Brien examines American and European
musical films created circa 1930, when the world's sound-equipped
theaters screened movies featuring recorded songs and filmmakers in
the United States and Europe struggled to meet the artistic and
technical challenges of sound production and distribution. The
presence of singers in films exerted special pressures on film
technique, lending a distinct look and sound to the films' musical
sequences. Rather than advancing a film's plot, songs in these
films were staged, filmed, and cut to facilitate the singer's
engagement with her or his public. Through an examination of the
export market for sound films in the early 1930s, when German and
American companies used musical films as a vehicle for competing to
control the world film trade, this book delineates a new
transnational context for understanding the Hollywood musical.
Combining archival research with the cinemetric analysis of
hundreds of American, German, French, and British films made
between 1927 and 1934, O'Brien provides the historical context
necessary for making sense of the aesthetic impact of changes in
film technology from the past to the present.
Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate
music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet,
record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises,
allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways.
Record stores speak volumes about our relationship to shopping,
capitalism, and art. This book takes a comprehensive look at what
individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what
they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in
general. What was their role in shaping social practices, aesthetic
tastes, and even, loosely put, ideologies? From women-owned and
independent record stores, to Reggae record shops in London, to
Rough Trade in Paris, this book takes on a global and
interdisciplinary approach to evaluating record stores. It collects
stories and memories, and facts about a variety of local stores
that not only re-centers the record store as a marketplace of
ideas, but also explore and celebrate a neglected personal history
of many lives.
Getting Started with Music Production is for anyone interested in
developing a more efficient and creative approach to music
production, and it's structured so thoughtfully that it can be used
as a textbook for a modular, activity-oriented course presented in
any learning environment. As an added bonus, the text and
accompanying examples are built around the free version of Studio
One from PreSonus, so no matter what their musical or technical
experience level, students don't need to purchase expensive
recording software to benefit from the presented material. The
fundamental concepts and techniques delivered in this book apply
seamlessly to any modern DAW. The author includes several
supporting video tutorials that help further explain and expand on
the instruction in the text. All supporting media is provided
exclusively online, so whether you're using a desktop computer or a
mobile device, you'll have easy access to all of the supporting
content.
Remediating Sound studies the phenomena of remixing, mashup and
recomposition: forms of reuse and sampling that have come to
characterise much of YouTube's audiovisual content. Through
collaborative composition, collage and cover songs to reaction
videos and political activism , users from diverse backgrounds have
embraced the democratised space of YouTube to open up new and
innovative forms of sonic creativity and push the boundaries of
audiovisual possibilities. Observing the reciprocal flow of
influence that runs between various online platforms, 12 chapters
position YouTube as a central hub for the exploration of digital
sound, music and the moving image. With special focus on aspects of
networked creativity that remain overlooked in contemporary
scholarship, including library music, memetic media, artificial
intelligence, the sonic arts and music fandom, this volume offers
interdisciplinary insight into contemporary audiovisual culture.
There is no greater enigma than Rick Rubin working in record
production today. As mysterious personally as the Buddhist religion
he practices, Rubin has made one thing crystal clear: the records
he produces are sonically and stylistically beyond reproach. MTV
has called Rubin "the most important producer of the last 20
years," while Rolling Stone ventured even further, deeming Rubin
the most successful "of any genre." Without a niche, Rubin has
taken greater risks than any producer in the record industry over
the past quarter century. Pushing his artists into new territory
has garnered Rubin seven Grammys, including Producer of the Year in
2007, and made him the most in-demand record producer working
today. Now for the first time, Rick Rubin: In the Studio offers the
behind-the-scenes stories of how Rubin created hit albums with such
diverse legends as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Run DMC, Johnny Cash,
the Beastie Boys, Audioslave, Tom Petty, Metallica, Danzig, Slayer,
LL Cool J, The Cult, Weezer, the Dixie Chicks, Linkin Park, System
of a Down, Rage Against the Machine, Jay Z, Neil Diamond, Sheryl
Crow, and Slipknot. This book chronicles his meteoric rise, from
his early days as DJ Double R in the early '80s, founding and
running Def Jam Records alongside Russell Simmons from an NYU dorm
room, discovering and producing the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J, to
his transition in the early '90s into a successful independent
record executive, signing and producing the Red Hot Chili Peppers
and Johnny Cash, to his role as the most influential producer of
all time (currently as the co-head of Columbia Records), and his
continued successes with rock/metal supergroups Audioslave, Linkin
Park, and Metallica. This in-depth look at the life and times of
Rick Rubin -- in the studio and beyond -- is a must-have for any
music fan.
Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous
streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of
musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in
popular culture; and they fuse and revise multiple frames of
reference, from dance to high fashion to cult movies and television
shows to Internet memes. Above all, music videos are laboratories
for experimenting with new forms of audiovisual expression. The
Rhythm Image explores all these dimensions. The book analyzes, in
depth, recent music videos for artists ranging from pop superstar
The Weeknd to independent women artists like FKA twigs and Dawn
Richard. The music videos discussed in this book all treat the
traditional themes of popular music: sex and romance, money and
fame, and the lived experiences of race and gender. But they twist
these themes in strange and unexpected ways, in order to reflect
our entanglement with a digital world of social media, data
gathering, and 24/7 demands upon our attention.
(Technical Reference). More than simply the book of the
award-winning DVD set, Art & Science of Sound Recording, the
Book takes legendary engineer, producer, and artist Alan Parsons'
approaches to sound recording to the next level. In book form,
Parsons has the space to include more technical background
information, more detailed diagrams, plus a complete set of course
notes on each of the 24 topics, from "The Brief History of
Recording" to the now-classic "Dealing with Disasters." Written
with the DVD's coproducer, musician, and author Julian Colbeck,
ASSR, the Book offers readers a classic "big picture" view of
modern recording technology in conjunction with an almost
encyclopedic list of specific techniques, processes, and equipment.
For all its heft and authority authored by a man trained at
London's famed Abbey Road studios in the 1970s ASSR, the Book is
also written in plain English and is packed with priceless
anecdotes from Alan Parsons' own career working with the Beatles,
Pink Floyd, and countless others. Not just informative, but also
highly entertaining and inspirational, ASSR, the Book is the
perfect platform on which to build expertise in the art and science
of sound recording.
Take your projects from vision to victory with Avid Pro Tools by
delivering high-quality results with perfect recipes for every
challenge Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF
eBook Key Features Learn to edit audio quickly and efficiently
using different techniques Discover advanced automation techniques
used during a mix session Unlock Pro Tools' most powerful features
and explore their uses Book DescriptionPro Tools has long been an
industry-standard Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for audio
professionals, but it can often be overwhelming for new and
experienced users alike. The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook
acts as a reference guide to the software and breaks down each
stage of a project into manageable phases. From planning a session,
editing a sequence, performing a mix to printing the final masters,
you can approach this book either sequentially or peruse the
self-contained recipes. You’ll come to grips with workflows for
music production, motion picture, and spoken word production,
helping you gain expertise in the area of your choice. You'll learn
aspects of music mixing like side chain processing to keep
instruments from overshadowing each other and conforming for motion
picture. The author’s expertise with Pro Tools will help you
discover and incorporate different techniques into your workflows.
You’ll also learn to build consistent and replicable workflows
and templates by understanding what happens behind the scenes in
Pro Tools. With this cookbook, you’ll be able to focus on the
creative aspects of your audio production and not get mired by the
technical hurdles. By the end of this book, you’ll be
well-equipped to handle even the most complex features of Pro Tools
to deliver immaculate results for your clients.What you will learn
Explore the inner workings of Pro Tools Plan and organize projects
effectively Edit audio quickly and efficiently Understand and
explore the usage of audio routing Build effective mix templates
Deliver custom solutions for varied service requirements Use
advanced mixing techniques to enhance sound tracks Pick appropriate
use cases for different audio effects and plugins Who this book is
forThe book is for audio professionals, sound designers/editors,
music engineers, podcast producers, re-recordist mixers, and
students looking to learn about Pro Tools and its features. A basic
understanding of Digital Audio Workstations and its operations such
as import, edit, mix and bounce is a must.
Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate
music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet,
record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises,
allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways.
Record stores speak volumes about our relationship to shopping,
capitalism, and art. This book takes a comprehensive look at what
individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what
they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in
general. What was their role in shaping social practices, aesthetic
tastes, and even, loosely put, ideologies? From women-owned and
independent record stores, to Reggae record shops in London, to
Rough Trade in Paris, this book takes on a global and
interdisciplinary approach to evaluating record stores. It collects
stories and memories, and facts about a variety of local stores
that not only re-centers the record store as a marketplace of
ideas, but also explore and celebrate a neglected personal history
of many lives.
Dancing to the Drum Machine is a never-before-attempted history of
what is perhaps the most controversial musical instrument ever
invented: the drum machine. Here, author Dan LeRoy reveals the
untold story of how their mechanical pulse became the new heartbeat
of popular music. The pristine snap of the LinnDrum. The
bottom-heavy beats of the Roland 808. The groundbreaking samples of
the E-MUSP-1200. All these machines-and their weirder,
wilder-sounding cousins-changed composition, recording, and
performance habits forever. Their distinctive sounds and styles
helped create new genres of music, like hip hop and EDM. But they
altered every musical style, from mainstream pop to heavy metal to
jazz. Dan LeRoy traces the drum machine from its low-tech
beginnings in the Fifties and Sixties to its evolution in the
Seventies and its ubiquity in the Eighties, when seemingly
overnight, it infiltrated every genre of music. Drum machines put
some drummers out of work, while keeping others on their toes. They
anticipated virtually every musical trend of the last five decades:
sequencing, looping, sampling, and all forms of digital music
creation. But the personalities beneath those perfect beats make
the story of drum machines a surprisingly human one-told here for
the very first time.
In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture,
Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures
in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of
listening cultures to form across time. Connecting this history of
noise in the cinema to a greater sonic culture, Static in the
System shows how cinema sound was networked into a broader
constellation of factors that affected social power, gender,
sexuality, class, the built environment, and industry, and how
these factors in turn came to fruition in cinema's soundscape.
Focusing on theories of power as they manifest in noise, the
history of noise in electro-acoustics with the coming of film
sound, architectural acoustics as they were manipulated in cinema
theaters, and the role of the urban environment in affecting mobile
listening and the avoidance of noise, Ward analyzes the powerful
relationship between aural cultural history and cinema's sound
theory, proving that noise can become a powerful historiographic
tool for the film historian.
The Vintage Recordings and Data A5 Journal from Galison features a
series of analog images from the past such as a vinyl album, floppy
disc, VHS tape, cassette tape, and many more. The journal has sleek
silver gilded page edges and 136 lined pages. - Silver Gilded Page
Edges - 136 Lined Pages - Size: 6 x 8.2", 152 x 208 mm
Written specifically with service technicians and engineers in
mind, this book is designed as a bench-side companion and guide to
the principles involved in repairing and adjusting CD players.
Engineers will find this a helpful companion to the various service
manuals. The text takes a problem solving approach with numerous
examples, circuit diagrams and line drawings.
Engineers who need to achieve a better understanding of CD
technology will find this book an essential tool for fault
diagnosis, adjustment and repair. This book not only covers the
mechanical design but also the integrated circuits within a CD
player. It is written for immediate application and is well
illustrated, so it should become a welcome addition to the rack of
tools available to the service engineer. Ken Clements has extensive
experience of the service industry both as a service manager and
later in technical training with Sony and Pioneer. It is his
hands-on knowledge that makes the book so valuable, not only as a
wide-ranging reference but also as a benchtop manual to be kept
within reach at all times when working with CD players.
Expert guidance on enhancing your live music production skills with
MIDI, audio sequencing and arrangement techniques, automation,
modulation, MPE, and external instruments from an Ableton Certified
Trainer Key Features Make the most of Ableton Live 11 tools and
processes to create, record and edit your own music Engage with
non-linear workflow for both music production and live performance
Unveil the best solutions to common pitfalls and mistakes committed
by Ableton Live users Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes
a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionThe Music Producer's Guide to
Ableton Live will help you sharpen your production skills and gain
a deeper understanding of the Live workflow. If you are a music
maker working with other digital audios workstations (DAWs) or
experienced in Ableton Live, perhaps earlier versions, you'll be
able to put your newfound knowledge to use right away with this
book. You'll start with some basic features and workflows that are
more suitable for producers from another DAW looking to transfer
their skills to Ableton Live 11.2. As you explore the Live concept,
you'll learn to create expressive music using Groove and MIDI
effects and demystify Live 11's new workflow improvements, such as
Note Chance and Velocity Randomization. The book then introduces
the Scale Mode, MIDI Transform tools, and other key features that
can make composition and coming up with melodic elements easier
than ever before. It will also guide you in implementing Live 11's
new and updated effects into your current workflow. By the end of
this Ableton Live book, you'll be able to implement advanced
production and workflow techniques and amplify live performance
capabilities with what the Live 11 workflow has to offer. What you
will learn Understand the concept of Live, the workflow of
recording and editing audio and MIDI, and warping Use Groove, MIDI
effects, and Live 11's new workflow enhancements to create
innovative music Use audio to MIDI conversion tools to translate
and generate ideas quickly Employ Live's automation and modulation
capabilities and project organization techniques to speed up your
workflow Utilize MIDI Polyphonic Expression to create evolving
sounds and textures Adopt advanced techniques for production and
discover the capabilities of live performance Who this book is
forIf you are a music producer, enthusiast, or hobbyist with a
basic understanding of using Ableton Live for simple projects, this
Ableton Live 11 book will help you improve your skills to employ
the best features and techniques in your projects. This book is
also for producers familiar with other DAWs looking to leverage
their transferable skills to learn Ableton Live.
Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural
revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925
and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the
soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure
recording sessions, as hundreds of unknown musicians entered
makeshift studios to record the melodies and rhythms of urban
streets and dancehalls. The musical styles and idioms etched onto
shellac disks reverberated around the globe: among them Havana's
son, Rio's samba, New Orleans' jazz, Buenos Aires' tango, Seville's
flamenco, Cairo's tarab, Johannesburg's marabi, Jakarta's kroncong,
and Honolulu's hula. They triggered the first great battle over
popular music and became the soundtrack to decolonization.
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