The Complete Guide to Digital Audio: A Comprehensive Introduction to Digital Sound and Music-Making

by Chris Middleton

Electronic music and sound recording was truly reborn with the emergence of personal computing. Now, making music on a computer is getting easier and less expensive. New and improved compression... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592001025
• ISBN13: 9781592001026
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Muska & Lipman Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.2" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Highly entertaining all-in guide to music and sound

This book certainly attempts a lot! The history of recorded sound all the way through to a glimpse at the future, via some of the main desktop music and audio production packages for Mac and PC. If you're a beginner (or just interested like me) I'd really recommend it. Unlike many books on this topic which are dull instruction manuals, or essays by geeks, this book is also a good read! Funny in places, and often controversial (especially about licensing and piracy stuff!). There's loads of pictures, interviews with sound engineers at Peter Gabriel's studio, Adult, Dat Politics, a games audio guy, and a whole bunch else. There's a few omissions and minor quibbles, but it's fun, erudite, and very colourfully illustrated.