books about sound synthesis
June 19, 2002 04:10 PM
Hallo there!
I know... "can you recommend me books on..." threads
are not very popular...
But I did STW, and these are really hard to find.
I''d like to program software synthesizers that are useful
for making music with, like those "virtual analogs"
a la VAZ, AXS etc.
Can any of you recommend me books that help to get
enough knowledge to do this?
Basic theory about sound synthesis,
books with bias to software implementation are prefered,
well, HW synths are interesting, too, and I know basic
electronic stuff, but I''m not that rich, and only the book
will be expensive enough, I suppose...
(are there books <= $100 ?? what I saw at amazon
is not what I exactly was looking for, and far from affordable)
I''m not completely new to sound programming in general.
I did my own sound mixer and a kind of "music engine",
to play songs in a way similar to FT2, S3M etc.,
it was fast enough to run with a 3D graphics engine.
What I''m looking for is really books that explain the theory how to model sounds.
Thanks in advance,
Steve
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June 19, 2002 04:21 PM
How did you STW? What phrases did you use?
Try:
"DSP book"
in Google
Post Script: a funny thing: you can type in www.googel.com or www.gooogle.com and voila! - you always arrive at www.google.com.
Gonna go and experiment some more...
Crispy
edit: and add an http:// to a link... brrr
[edited by - crispy on June 19, 2002 5:23:12 PM]
Try:
"DSP book"
in Google
Post Script: a funny thing: you can type in www.googel.com or www.gooogle.com and voila! - you always arrive at www.google.com.
Gonna go and experiment some more...
Crispy
edit: and add an http:// to a link... brrr
[edited by - crispy on June 19, 2002 5:23:12 PM]
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June 20, 2002 03:33 AM
Unfortunately, synthesis books tend to be very expensive; however I can recommend a few [ too lazy to link em though ]:
The Computer Music Tutorial - Curtis Roads
Computer Music - Dodge + Jerse
The CSound Book - Richard Boulanger
If I would recommend one book, it would be the Curtis Roads one. Kinda pricy, but you get a heck of a lot for that. Otherwise, the Dodge + Jerse book contains a pretty hefty subset of this, but for a lot less.
Online resources:
The DSP Guide
PortAudio
The Music DSP source code archive
Enjoy!
[Edit - Fixed stupid url error. Cheers LessBread ]
[edited by - Colin Barry on June 20, 2002 5:10:38 AM]
]:The Computer Music Tutorial - Curtis Roads
Computer Music - Dodge + Jerse
The CSound Book - Richard Boulanger
If I would recommend one book, it would be the Curtis Roads one. Kinda pricy, but you get a heck of a lot for that. Otherwise, the Dodge + Jerse book contains a pretty hefty subset of this, but for a lot less.
Online resources:
The DSP Guide
PortAudio
The Music DSP source code archive
Enjoy!
[Edit - Fixed stupid url error. Cheers LessBread ]
[edited by - Colin Barry on June 20, 2002 5:10:38 AM]
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June 20, 2002 03:43 AM
"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." - the Laughing Man
June 21, 2002 03:45 PM
thankyou guys!
I''ll check this out. Just downloading some chapters
of the dsp book...
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