| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 551 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Note |
"A Focal Press Book" -- taken from front cover. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Dance Music Manual, aimed at the novice and seasoned professional alike, takes the reader through the software and hardware needed to create original, captivating, and professional sounding music. Key features of Dance Music Manual include: How to create compelling, professional-sounding original or remixed dance tracks. The differences between different genres and how to produce them. How to expose your tracks to their chosen audience and equip you with the skills to develop your career as a dance music producer and engineer. Along with the book is a companion website, which provides examples of synthesis programming, compression, effects, MIDI files, and examples of the tracks discussed in this edition. The new and improved fourth edition covers processes and techniques used by music producers, masters, mixers, and DJs. Each page is full of facts presented in a manner that is easy to absorb and implement. |
| Contents |
The studio centerpiece -- The audio interface -- Monitors, headphones, and your room -- Hearing protection -- The science of frequency and amplitude -- Synthesizers -- FM and wavetable synthesis -- Modular synthesis -- The theory of sound design -- Samplers -- Compressors -- Further processors -- Effects -- The mixing desk -- Hybrid studios -- Fundamentals of rhythm -- Kicks and percussion -- Creating drum loops -- Fundamentals of music theory -- Chords and harmony -- Composing and designing strings -- Composing and designing leads -- Composing and designing bass -- Sound effects -- Vocals : recording and editing -- Formal structure in dance music -- An overview of house music -- Techno -- Uplifting trance -- Dubstep -- Ambient and chill out -- Drum & bass -- An overview of dub -- Mixing theory -- Practical mixing -- Mastering -- Publishing and promotion -- A DJ's perspective -- Appendix A : Binary and hex -- Appendix B : Decimal to hexadecimal conversion table -- Appendix C : General MIDI instrument patch maps -- Appendix D : General MIDI CC list -- Appendix E : Sequencer note divisions -- Appendix F : Tempo delay time chart -- Appendix G : Musical note to MIDI and frequencies. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Electronic dance music -- Instruction and study.
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Electronic dance music. |
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Electronic dance music -- Production and direction.
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Sound recordings -- Remixing.
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Sound recordings -- Remixing. |
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Electronic composition.
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Electronic composition. |
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. |
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TECHNOLOGY -- Acoustics & Sound. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dance music manual Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. 9781138319622 (DLC) 2018038174 |
| ISBN |
9780429453830 electronic book |
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0429453833 electronic book |
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9780429843891 electronic book |
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0429843895 electronic book |
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9780429843907 electronic book |
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0429843909 electronic book |
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9780429843884 electronic book |
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0429843887 electronic book |
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9781138319622 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781138319646 paperback alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9780429453830 |
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