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The Synthesizer - A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,757
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The Synthesizer - A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music...

The Synthesizer - A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument (Hardcover, New)

Mark Vail

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Electronic music instruments weren't called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich Termen's development of the Etherphone, now known as the Theremin. From that point, synthesizers have undergone a remarkable evolution from prohibitively large mid-century models confined to university laboratories to the development of musical synthesis software that runs on tablet computers and portable media devices.
Throughout its history, the synthesizer has always been at the forefront of technology for the arts. In The Synthesizer: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument, veteran music technology journalist, educator, and performer Mark Vail tells the complete story of the synthesizer: the origins of the many forms the instrument takes; crucial advancements in sound generation, musical control, and composition made with instruments that may have become best sellers or gone entirely unnoticed; and the basics and intricacies of acoustics and synthesized sound. Vail also describes how to successfully select, program, and play a synthesizer; what alternative controllers exist for creating electronic music; and how to stay focused and productive when faced with a room full of instruments. This one-stop reference guide on all things synthesizer also offers tips on encouraging creativity, layering sounds, performance, composing and recording for film and television, and much more.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2014
First published: February 2014
Authors: Mark Vail
Dimensions: 286 x 223 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 428
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-539481-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Music recording & reproduction
Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Audio processing > Music & sound effects
Books > Music > Music recording & reproduction
LSN: 0-19-539481-X
Barcode: 9780195394818

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