Synthesizer Technique (The Keyboard synthesizer library)
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Creator: Hal Leonard Corp.Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1984-10
ISBN: 0881882909
Number of pages: 113
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
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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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