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A practitioner's guide to the basic principles of creating sound effects using easily accessed free software.Designing Sound teaches 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 per
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One of the most comprehensive sound design books I have ever read. It covers all the most important general physical phenomena which produce and effect sound, this is huge for non-scientists. From psychoacoustics to synthesis, this presents quite a complete body of knowledge. It also has practical examples in PureData patch format to realistically recreate actual sounds. Amazing and worth the price.
Fundamental stuff, brilliantly laid out.
I am concentrating on the Pure Data chapters which start at Chapter 9. The first 8 chapters will only be useful to me when I've become proficient with Pure Data (Extended).
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Great book on sound creation and design. Get this book if you work with sound.
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