Description
. 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.
* Learn the complete process from switching on your computer and connecting devices to producing professionally mastered soundtracks and publishing and sharing them
* Be inspired to create by interviews with top industry professionals, well-known musicians and composers
* Learn from the non-technical, easy to understand hints, tips, and expert work-throughs
Reviews
"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
Contents
All about sound; The computer in your studio;
Audio and recording terms; The studio in your computer; Recording the real world; Mixdown; Internet audio and mobility; Audio for video and movies.