The synthesizer
Subtitle: a comprehensive guide to understanding, programming, playing, and recording the ultimate electronic music instrument
By: Mark Vail
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780195394818; 9780195394894
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument); Instruction and study; Electronic music
Notes: "About the companion website": page xv.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-373), filmography (page 373), web resources, and index.
Table of contents: title: Trendsetting all-stars. Control ; Sound ; Performance ; Interface ; Composition ; Beyond; title: Acoustics and synthesis basics. Real-world acoustics ; Types of synthesis ; Audio sources : oscillators, noise, and more ; VCAs, envelopes, and LFOs ; Envelope followers and pitch-to-voltage converters ; Filters ; EQs and filter banks ; Analog sequencers ; Arpeggiators ; Reverb ; Analog delay ; Digital delay ; Loopers ; Other effects; title: Choosing your synthesizer(s). Options ; Modular synthesizers in the twenty-first century ; Connectivity ; Controllers ; Noise toys; title: Composition, programming, and performance techniques. Composition ; Patching, aka programming ; Performance; title: Recording the synthesizer. As it was and how it's become for the Switched-on innovator ; Serial vs. random-access media ; Strategies for recording film and TV scores ; Harnessing the power of modular synths with Ableton Live ; Automated mixing ; Outboard processing : preparing audion for recording ; Recording direct and expanding for surround-sound; title: Appendix A. Selected bibliography, films, and museums; title: Appendix B. Manufacturers, forums, blogs, dealers, and stores.