Creating sounds from scratch
Subtitle: a practical guide to music synthesis for producers and composers
By: Andrea Pejrolo, Scott B. Metcalfe
Contributors: Metcalfe, Scott B.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780199921874; 9780199921898
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Software synthesizers; Composition (Music); Acoustics and physics; Instruction and study; Computer composition (Music); Synthesizer (Musical instrument); Music; Electronic composition; Electronic music
Other titles: Practical guide to music synthesis for producers and composers; Guide to music synthesis for producers and composers
Notes: "About the companion website": page xix.

Companion website features video tutorials and audio examples.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How did we get here? Introduction ; Electronic music in the twentieth century ; Instruments ; The rise of the modern synthesizer ; The road to polyphony ; Musical Instrument Digital Interface ; Digitally controlled oscillator ; Digital sampling ; Wavetable synthesis ; Korg M1 workstation ; Conclusion; title: Understanding sound and hearing. Introduction ; What is sound? ; Amplitude ; Human hearing ; Missing fundamental ; Conclusion; title: The tools of the trade. Introduction ; Sound generators ; Sound modifiers ; Instruments ; The MIDI standard ; The electronic digital studio for the contemporary composer and producer; title: Subtractive synthesis. Introduction ; Sculpting sound with subtractive synthesis ; Sound design 4.1 : Synth clarinet ; Sound design 4.2 : 1980s classic synth strings ; Sound design 4.3 : Synth snare ; The producer point of view on subtractive synthesis ; Exercises; title: Frequency modulation synthesis. Introduction ; How FM works ; Algorithms ; Operators ; Operators and the harmonic series ; Principles of FM sound design ; Sound design 5.1 : Constructing sawtooth wave in FM8 ; Sound design 5.2 : Square wave ; Sound design 5.3 : Reed pipe organ/Oboe timbre using FM8 ; Modulation index ; Amplitude of sidebands ; Multiple carriers ; Noise, distortion, and feedback! ; The producer's point of view on FM synthesizers ; Exercises; title: Additive synthesis. Introduction ; Instruments ; Resynthesis in additive synthesis ; Manipulating resynthesized sounds ; Spectral synthesis ; Iris : is it sampling? Subtractive synthesis? Spectral synthesis? Yes ; The producer point of view on additive synthesis ; Exercises; title: Sample-based synthesis. Introduction ; Principles of sample-based synthesis ; Techniques for custom sample sets ; Being creative ; Sound design 7.1 : Sampled piano manipulation ; Digital audio : What the heck is sample rate and what are bits? ; Digital audio in practice ; File sizes ; The producer point of view on sampling ; Exercises; title: Physical modeling. Introduction ; Analog modeling ; Physical modeling in hardware ; Physical modeling in software ; Platypus of sound? ; Logic's Sculpture as a case study ; The producer point of view ; Exercises; title: Wavetable synthesis and granular synthesis. Introduction ; Wavetable synthesis ; Granular synthesis ; The producer point of view on wavetable synthesis and granular synthesis ; Exercises.