Sampling and Soft Synth Power!

By Michael Prager

Sampling, one of the staples of modern music production, is the process of taking periodic samples of an audio waveform and transforming these sampled signal levels into a representative stream of binary words that can be manipulated or stored for later reproduction. Studio musicians rely heavily on samplers to help give their music a realistic texture that they were not able to achieve without hiring expensive studio musicians. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592001327
• ISBN13: 9781592001323
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good introduction

This book is a good introduction to the inner workings of many soft samplers and synths. There's enough details to get you beyond just running the presets of many instruments. The book spends a lot of time covering sampler library construction, in a variety of formats. As opposed to the previous reviewer, most of us who are involved in electronic music will want to learn how to do this feat. There's a good-sized chapter...