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A fascinating read that I rarely see mentioned in these kind of threads is Rick Snoman's Dance Music Manual - for anyone interested in synths and their role in
by sethhochberg 11y ago
A fascinating read that I rarely see mentioned in these kind of threads is Rick Snoman's Dance Music Manual - for anyone interested in synths and their role in electronic music, it provides tons of information on the when/where/why/how various synth techniques became popular in different styles of dance music and gives good introductory information on how to take the raw synth components you can create in software or hardware (waveforms, filters, envelopes, etc) and turn them into the kinds of sounds common in various dance music genres.
The book is written with a slant towards the aspiring dance music producer, but, it should be plenty interesting for anyone who wants to have a bit more musical interest in synthesis beyond the purely mathematical angle.
- gtani 11y agoI love that book, covers the whole chain of tools including samplers, sequencers, arpeggiators, DAWs etc. Also Shepard "Refining Sound" steps people thru oscillators, LFO's, envelope, filter/resonance and after effects. Great books. Some other classic books are Welsh's Cookbooks (i think there are 2), and those by Miller Puckette (the guy who wrote Max), Martin Russ, Perry Cook, Allen Strange, Mark Jenkins, Mark Vail. I'm forgetting a few. Or you could just buy a mopho/tetra, microbrute, bass station2, MS20 mini, ms2000, minilogue, sh201, jp8000 etc and start watching youtube tuts.