Designing Sound

Name: Designing Sound
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ISBN: 9780262014410

ISBN-10: 0262014416

ISBN-13: 9780262014410

Edition: 2010

Authors: Andy Farnell

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Designing Soundteaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis. The text takes a practitioner's perspective, exploring the basic principles of making ordinary, everyday sounds using an easily accessed free software. Readers use the Pure Data (Pd) language to construct sound objects,which are more flexible and useful than recordings. Sound is considered as a process, rather than as data-an approach sometimes known as "procedural audio." Procedural sound is a living sound effect that can run as computer code and be changed in…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/20/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 688
Size: 7.32" wide x 9.29" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 2.640



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Theory



Theory Introduction



Physical Sound



Oscillations



Acoustics



Psychoacoustics



Digital Signals



Tools



Tools Introduction



Starting with Pure Data



Using Pure Data



Pure Data Audio



Abstraction



Shaping Sound



Pure Data Essentials



Technique



Technique Introduction



Strategic Production



Technique 1ï¿½ Summation



Technique 2ï¿½ Tables



Technique 3ï¿½ Nonlinear Functions



Technique 4ï¿½ Modulation



Technique 5ï¿½ Grains



Game Audio



Practicals


Practicals Introduction


Practical Seriesï¿½ ArtificialSounds


Practical Seriesï¿½ Idiophonics


Practical Seriesï¿½ Nature


Practical Seriesï¿½ Machines


Practical Seriesï¿½ Lifeforms


Practical Seriesï¿½ Mayhem


Practical Seriesï¿½ Science-Fiction


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