Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of learning to create sounds on a...
Piano & Keyboard All-in-One For Dummies makes it easier and more fun than ever to make music! If you don’t know how to read music, this book...
Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed...
Music Production can be an elusive art form for many, and the challenges that face someone who is new to this can easily create overwhelm and...
Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow...
From the pages of Keyboard magazine, Keyboard Presents Synth Gods, spotlighting artists who did much more than just play synthesizers… …they changed the course of music...
The easy way to get keyed up on the keyboard… Where Piano For Dummies helps budding musicians to master the black-and-white musical keyboard, Keyboard For Dummies helps them understand the...
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon’s speech scrambling weapon The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from...
Home music producers now have access to a wide variety of software synthesizers, samplers, and FX devices on their computers — — devices that had previously...
Audio productions are made or broken by the quality of the recording engineer’s ears. The ability to properly discern sounds, identify subtle problems, and act accordingly...
Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as...
