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Synthesizer Technique (The Keyboard synthesizer library) Review

Synthesizer Technique (The Keyboard synthesizer library)
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Amazon.com doesn't give a real description for this book, so here it is.
There are three chapters in this book (descriptions directly from the back of the book):
1: Recreating Timbres - String tone simulation; vocal sounds; timbre of the acoustic piano; bass voicings; percussion sounds; processed noise effects; note shapes; timbral complexity; simulating plucked timbres; pitched struck instrument timbres; tips on recording synthesizers; recording string synthesizers.
2: Pitch-Bending, Modulation, and Expression - Pitch-bending; pitch-bending exercises; pitch-bending embellishments; vibrato; clangorous sounds; amplitude and ring modulation; filter modulation and phase shift; oscillating filter modulation and waveform modulation; frequency modulation; oscillator modulation; voltage control; playing the front panel; automatic improvisation; phase relations in composition; sequence and pitch dependent functions.
3: Soloing and Orchestration - Synthesized orchestration; keyboard stacks; voicing for your keyboard stacks; building lead lines; solos: the motif method; constructing a solo; lead synthesizer.
"With contributions by Bob Moog, Tom Coster, George Duke, Roger Powell, Patrick Gleeson, Craig Anderton, Jim Aikin, Tom Darter, and the editors, designers, and staff of Keyboard Magazine."
This information is old, but still an essential beginning for everybody who is involved with synthesis and anything synthesizer.

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Modern Recording Techniques, Sixth Edition Review

Modern Recording Techniques, Sixth Edition
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Modern? As a reprint this book is getting pretty old now and would really benefit from some new material. I'm also not sure who the audience is meant to be. It's too generalised to appeal to someone who understands the fundamentals of recording and yet would probably scare off someone who is relatively new to the subject.
The format is very text bookish and is let down by the lack of solid tips, techniques and examples that would have bought this otherwise ordinary book to life.
Unless you have the luxury of already owning all the other recording books advertised on Amazon I would shunt this one further down the list.

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