Using information in this book you will learn how to make your own analogue mono-synthesizer.

Synthesizers for Musicians

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Penfold, R.A.

Music

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Midi Survival Guide

Lennard, Vic

* For musicians, recording engineers and enthusiasts * Helps you plan the recording session * Covers recording techniques for vocals, drums, guitar and keyboards * Use MIDI and multitrack and get the best of both worlds * Appendices on equipment suppliers etc * Glossary of terms * List of recording studios * Published in conjunction with Sound on Sound magazine Whether you are a recording musician or a recording engineer learning the trade, David Mellor tells you everything you need to know to get the best from the studio recording process. Everything from planning the recording session, microphone techniques, recording vocals, drums, guitars and keyboards, using MIDI and synchronising, operating the mixing console, the use of compressors and noise gates, equalisation, location recording, adding effects, monitoring, mixdown, digital and hard disk recording - and much more. With useful appendices giving lists of UK recording studios and a glossary of terms, it's a book no recording musician or engineer can afford to be without.

Recording Techniques for Small Studios

Mellor, David

Electronic Projects for Guitar

* Get great results from your sequencer * Suitable for hardware or computer based sequencers * Program guitar, bass, keyboard, drums, wind and string instruments * Info on MIDI effects, quantising, controllers, SysEx, synchronising * Section on using MIDI live * No need to read music 
If you want to get better results from your sequencer you need this book. 
Written by leading MIDI song file producer Dave Clackett of Hands On MIDI Software, the book lists the hardware and software you need to set up a sequencing system, and introduces the basics of sequencing and music notation. 
It explains how to program drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, as well as 'real' instruments - woodwind, brass, strings etc., and shows how effects, controllers, SysEx and quantising can be used to fine tune your song files. There are sections on synchronising to tape, standard MIDI files, copyright, transcribing from record, and a chapter on using MIDI files live. 
The book will be of particular interest to musicians using General MIDI/GS/XG equipment, but all the examples are relevant whether you use a hardware based sequencer or an Atari, PC, Mac or Amiga. 
With a help section, a glossary and appendices on General MIDI data, it's a book no MIDI musician can afford to be without.

Handbook of Midi Sequencing

Clackett, Dave

Audio Editing with Cool Edit

• Setting up the program 
• A Cool Edit Pro recording session 
• Multitrack recording 
• Applying effects and using EQ 
• Using noise reduction 
• Using plug-ins 
• Saving in MP3, WAV and other formats 
• Troubleshooting section and tips and tricks 
Cool Edit really is a recording studio in your PC. It's a sophisticated piece of software that enables up to 64 tracks of stereo audio to be combined as a 'multitrack' enabling it to be used as a super high quality 'virtual tape recorder'. It's used by beginners and audio professionals to record, edit and play and record audio, add an unlimited range of effects and filters (including Direct X and VST effects), clean up audio files, mix up to 64 tracks and master to CD or even for broadcast. 
This book shows how to get the best from Cool Edit with easy to understand walkthroughs and helpful hints and tips. It's an essential addition to the Cool Edit manual and help file and reveals many undocumented features and time saving tips. 
It explains how to install and set up the program on your PC, how to record from a variety of sources, how to apply EQ and effects like flanging, reverb, delay, and how to sync via MIDI and SMPTE. You'll learn how to use plug-ins to enhance, clean up and generally improve your recordings and how to save in multiple file formats including MP3 and WAV for any platform or system. If you master to CD, Cool Edit has tools for normalising your mix, to do complex multiband compression, noise reduction, inserting silence, test tones and signals etc. 
Finally, there's an invaluable troubleshooting section along and a collection of invaluable tips and tricks gleaned from the author's many years of experience using the program.

Audio Editing With Cool Edit

Riley, Richard

Games & Strategy Guides

Digital audio gives you more flexibility, higher quality & more creative power. It's available to all PC users -- and doesn't cost the earth. This practical & clearly written book explains everything from the basics to creating a system to spit your requirements. With a minimum of technical language, it explains basic digital recording principles, sample rates and resolutions, consumer sound cards & dedicated digital audio cards.

Making Music With Digital Audio: Direct to Disk Recording on the PC

Science & Math

Waugh, Ian

Physics

* Key guitar profiles * How the electric guitar works * Basic maintenance * Setting up * Electrics * Playing live  If you need to know how to change a string, or which order to chain your effects pedals, this book has the answers. Richard Riley has been a freelance contributor to Total Guitar and Future Music magazines since 1992, including writing a regular questions and answers column dealing with readers enquires.  This book contains everything that wouldn't fit in the magazine. Everything from the width of a Les Paul fingerboard to the origins of the mahogany in the body. Pickup configurations with wiring diagrams, tips on do it yourself repairs and maintenance in clear jargon-free style. There's information on effects pedals, recording and gigging. Everything a guitar player might come across is explained in detail by an experienced working musician and writer.

Electric Guitar Handbook

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