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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Ableton Live is the cross-platform software which has rocked the music world, gathering ardent fans in a way usually associated with performers rather than software. Musicians, DJs, remixers, composers, and producers alike have embraced Live, and it's fast becoming the universal software studio.
This book will give Live novices insight into working methods that otherwise would take months to discover. For the more experienced user, it promises a quick catch-up with Live 5's new developments, and a new perspective on some of Live's more established features. 
The book does not duplicate the Live user manual--it expands upon it and introduces creative concepts, workflow enhancements, and workrounds for common objectives and problems. It also includes interviews with high-profile Live users in a variety of musical genres, passing on their real-world experiences to you. Although the Live interface is remarkably simple, there's a lot of power under the surface. This book will show you new ways to access that power.

Ableton Live 5: Tips And Tricks

Delaney, Martin

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<li>Capturing ideas quickly</li> <li>Writing memorable tunes and songs</li> <li>Using loops</li> <li>Understanding MIDI and software Instruments</li> <li>Understanding audio recording and real instruments</li> <li>Using effects - effectively!</li> Let's face it, for many beginners and amateur musicians new to computer-based music making, much of today's top-of-the-range recording software is far too complicated to operate. It's not like that with GarageBand. The complicated stuff remains hidden from view, with just the basic controls on display. The interface is friendly and inviting rather than off-putting, and capturing your ideas is quick and intuitive.
Keep it Simple with GarageBand contains a series of easy music making projects for beginners and amateur musicians. Follow these simple projects and you'll not only learn how to use GarageBand effectively, you'll also pick up tons of insider tips on songwriting, constructing tunes and pro-style audio production along the way: all explained in easy-to-understand terminology. Each project is preceded by on-topic, background information explaining just what you will be doing and why.
Keep it Simple with GarageBand!

Keep It Simple with Garage Band: Easy Music Projects for Beginners

Gemmell, Keith

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

The manual may tell you how your sequencer works, but Sequencer Secrets goes beyond any manual. In this concise, creative and intensely practical book, Ian Waugh explains how you can get the best from any software sequencer. It contains a collection of hints and tips acquired over many years of experience with a wide range of software sequencers. It explains how to master functions you may have previously ignored, how to use short cuts to speed up your work, and how to turn your sequencer from a recording tool into a creative music machine. The book will show you how to:
<ul>
<li>Optimise your MIDI system</li>
<li>Create MIDI echoes</li>
<li>Create instant harmonies</li>
<li>Humanise your drum patterns</li>
<li>Use controller messages more effectively</li>
<li>Use quantisation more effectively</li>
<li>Create more realistic instrument parts</li>
<li>Program gate effects</li>
<li>Use sequences live</li>
</ul>

Sequencer Secrets: Over 150 Power Tips for MIDI Sequencer Users from Ian Waugh

Waugh, Ian

* 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

You'll know what it's like. You spend ages getting that great guitar sound and as soon as you put it on tape it sounds like a wet string flapping limply in the breeze.
Well here comes John Harris to the rescue. He calls on his many years of experience as a guitarist and recording engineer to bring you a collection of invaluable tips to help you get stunning results from your recordings. 
He starts with setting up, strings, intonation and playing techniques. All these can affect the sound you ultimately put on to tape. Electric guitarists will learn when to mic up, when to DI (and when to do both!) and diagrams illustrate a range of different mic positions to coax the sweetest sounds from your acoustic. 
All guitarists want to get that certain sound, and John shows how different pre-amps--valve, transistor, digital--can be used for different sorts of music. And you'll find out how to put the finishing touches to your masterpiece with effects--compression, reverb, delay, gating, flange, chorus, harmonisers etc. etc. And don't believe MIDI is out of place in a guitarist's book. You'll find out about pedalboards, MIDI controllers, program switching and MIDI patchbays. And for real technofreaks there's a section on recording MIDI guitar and using sequencers, as well as sampling your guitar sounds. 
The book is rounded off with some tips on production techniques, like sound layering and tape tricks, and getting the final mix just right.

Recording the Guitar

Harris, John.

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