Creating Digital Music and Sound: An inspirational introduction for musicians, web designers, animators, videomakers, and game designers. - Softcover

Middleton, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240808320 ISBN 13: 9780240808321

Publisher: Focal Press, 2006

Synopsis

. Write and record music. Learn studio techniques. Record location sound. Make your own podcasts and Internet radio shows. Add music and sound to videos, movies, and animations. Make music on your cellphone.

'Creating Digital Music and Sound' is an illustrated introduction to the creative challenges and techniques of making music and recording sound digitally, for anyone interested in making, sharing, or publishing music and sound across any media.

From the basics of setting up a home studio and using a variety of software and hardware, to practical hints, tips, and creative strategies for adding soundtracks to videos, collaborating online in real time, and making and sharing podcasts and Internet radio shows, this unique book will instruct but also entertain and inspire.

'Creating Digital Music and Sound' also demystifies the technologies and features interviews with top musicians, studio engineers, filmmakers, DJs, Web designers, and videomakers.

The book offers a unique insight into the immediate future of music and sound-making, from making music on mobile phones, to digital rights, media players, file formats, and Blu-Ray disks and HD-DVDs.

This feature-packed book offers a creative introduction to music and sound making on Mac, PC, Linux and non-computer platforms, from budget tools and freeware to the most comprehensive studio suites.

About this title

Review

"This fully illustrated, 4-color handbook examines the basic principles of digital music-making and sound...Exploring how to create podcasts and Internet radio broadcasts, the author looks at film soundtracks, videos, and animation as well as how to add audio to Web sites..For practical hints and tips plus interviews with professionals, the book describes music-making for beginners and more advanced users in the home studio and on location." - J. Audio Eng. Soc., July/August 2006

"Middleton provides a rundown on digital creation basics such as hardware, workstations, loops, beat matching, microphone usage, multi-track recording and mastering...From there he moves into focused applications, including...podcasts, Internet radio and Flash..." - Animation Magazine, Aug. 2006

Edition details

• Publisher: Focal Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0240808320
• ISBN 13: 9780240808321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176