Dance music manual
by Rick Snoman · first published 2012
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…for around $700, I think others are open source/license. Also the clojure overtone and haskell tidal live coding libs. I think there were also threads about writing your own VST/AU plugins. Snoman's "Dance Music Manual" and Shepard "Refining Sound" are good books to start with (I'm old school about synths and sequencer, i think it's best to start with a knobby hardware synth, microbrute, ms2000, Minilogue, bass station…
on “Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno” ↗…much time on theory of Yamaha FM, Kawai additive, Casio phase distortion, which had more marketshare at the time of the SoS series) Or read the books by Brian Shepherd (Refining Sound) or Rick Snoman (Dance music manual). For somebody serious, there's books by Miller Puckette and Charles Dodge
on “Synth Secrets (1999–2004)” ↗…you typically layer 3 separate kick tracks by phase aligning and more post processing. There's a lot to getting a good sounding kick with presence, attack, body. The reference on this is Rick Snoman's Dance Music Manual, 3rd ed.
on “Eigentechno – Principal Component Analysis applied to electronic music” ↗A fascinating read that I rarely see mentioned in these kind of threads is Rick Snoman's Dance Music Manual - for anyone interested in synths and their role in electronic music, it provides tons of information on the when/where/why/how various synth techniques became popular in different styles of dance music…
on “The Synthesizer Academy” ↗google "physical modeling" and: http://www.amazon.com/Real-Sound-Synthesis-Interactive-Appli... _______________ there's also 3 good basic textbooks on synthesis/sound design by Rick Snoman (Dance Music Manual), Martin Russ and Brian Shepherd that have specific recipes ("detune a saw and square by 3 cents...) ___________ and if you don't have a synth, ask around for somebody that has Logic Pro X (several…
on “Show HN: Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer in JavaScript” ↗…Ableton a few years ago, because it is widely used for electronic music production. Also, my employer provided 50% discount on Ableton products :) I’d like to also recommend this book https://www.amazon.de/Dance-Music-Manual-Rick-Snoman/dp/0415... if you are interested in theory.
on “Psytrance Guide” ↗…subscription will be online tomorrow, 14,99$/m. I'm using it for some months now and it's really helpful, it develop your ear enormously. It's from the same guy who created Syntorial (http://www.syntorial.com). Dance Music Manual (http://www.dancemusicproduction.com) from Rick Snoman, version 4 has been recently released and it's the only book you need (for a time being). I don't own it but Secrets of Dance Music Production looks…
on “Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music” ↗and anybody that wants to go serious/pro, there's Snoman's Dance Music Manual, 4th edition but earlier editions shd still be useful.
on “Get Started Making Music” ↗…commercial package like FL Studio will come with a bunch of standard plugins that would get you pretty far before venturing into the world of virtual instruments. There's a few books on the subject (Dance Music Manual comes to mind), but honestly I don't think they're very helpful. You can get extremely far without knowing any music theory, and it's hard to describe audio stuff in a book, so you'll probably get more…
on “Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music” ↗