Sound Synthesis and Sampling

 

Description*

Sound Synthesis and Sampling provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect current needs and practices- revised and placed in a modern context, providing a guide to the theory of sound and sampling in the context of software and hardware that enables sound making. For the revised edition emphasis is on expanding explanations of software and computers, new sections include techniques for making sound physically, sections within analog and digital electronics. Martin Russ is well known and the book praised for its highly readable and non-mathematical approach making the subject accessible to readers starting out on computer music courses or those working in a studio.

 

 

Audio in Media

 

Description*

In Audio in Media, Stanley Alten-internationally recognized as a scholar and expert in the area of audio production-continues to provide students with an introduction to the basic techniques and principles necessary for audio production in today's media. The clear and current illustrations and photos and student-friendly writing in Alten's market-leading text have helped professors effectively teach this technically-based course to thousands of introductory audio production students. Comprehensive, technically accurate, and up-to-date, the text covers informational, perceptual, and aesthetic aspects of sound as they apply to each stage of the production process-from planning to post-production.

 

 

Pro Tools 101: An Introduction to Pro Tools 10

 

Description*

Pro Tools 101: An Introduction to Pro Tools 10 takes a comprehensive approach to learning the fundamentals of Pro Tools systems. Now updated for Pro Tools 10 software, this new edition from the definitive authority on Pro Tools covers everything you need to know to complete a Pro Tools project. Learn to build sessions that include multitrack recordings of live instruments, MIDI sequences, and virtual instruments. Through hands-on tutorials, develop essential techniques for recording, editing, and mixing. The included DVD-ROM offers tutorial files and videos, additional documentation, and Pro Tools sessions to accompany the projects in the text.

 

 

Music: The Art of Listening

 

Description*

Music: The Art of Listening weaves the story of great music into the fabric of cultural and social history to provide the reader with a context for developing appreciation. In a clear and accessible format, Jean Ferris and new coauthor Larry Worster introduce music from across several centuries, helping the listener develop techniques to fully appreciate music along the way. Using listening guides, insights into the composers, and illustrations from other arts, Music: The Art of Listening provides every student with a way to engage with great music and to carry that engagement into their wider listening world.

 

 

Audio Sampling: A Practical Guide

 

Description*

Bringing sampling to a new generation of audio engineers and composers Audio Sampling: A Practical Guide explains how to record and create sampled instruments in a software setting. There are many things that go into creating a sampled instrument and many things that can go wrong, this book is a step by step guide through the process, from introducing sampling, where it begins to recording editing and using samples, providing much sought after detailed information on the actual process of sampling, creating sampled instruments as well as the different ways they can be used.

 

The Recording Engineer’s Handbook

 

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The Recording Engineer’s Handbook is about how Working as a recording engineer presents challenges from every direction of your project. From using microphones to deciding on EQ settings, choosing outboard gear to understanding how, when and why to process your signal, the seemingly never-ending choices can be very confusing. Professional Audio's bestselling author Bobby Owsinski takes you into the tracking process for all manner of instruments and vocals-- providing you with the knowledge and skill to make sense of the many choices you have in any given project. From acoustic to electronic instruments, mic placement to EQ settings, everything you need to know to capture professionally recorded audio tracks is in this guide.

 

 

Recording Studio Technology, Maintenance, and Repairs

 

Description*

Recording Studio Technology, Maintenance, and Repairs is the #1 reference for studio technology - only this manual covers it all, from equipment installation to professional maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs. This book offers unbeatable guidance - from electronics basics to fine tuning equipment. It's the one reference no recording studio should be without. The Ultimate Studio Manual - if you want a smoothly functioning, beautifully performing recording studio, this book is the only comprehensive, practical guide to getting it right, from the first idea to final tweaks, from fixes to foolproof follow throughs. Understand and service every piece of equipment in today's recording studios. Written by a recording studio service pro, this illustration-packed guide shows you how speakers, microphones, mixing boards, amplifiers, meters, oscilloscopes, and all major pieces and types of recording equipment work. The fully illustrated instructions demonstrate every step in maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair - even those all-important (and often missing) mid repair processes.

 

IADT Events Team Training

Ever wanted to volunteer at an Live Event? Come to this workshop to get your training so you can be part of the IADT Events Team! Thursday, October 10th from 5-6pm in Room 143. See you there! 

Producing Great Sound for Film & Sound

Producing Great Sound for Film & Sound

Description*
Producing Great Sound for Film & Video Make your film or video project sound as good as it looks with this complete training course by audio guru Jay Rose. You get hundreds of professional, real-world techniques that you can employ from preproduction through the final mix. This is a solution-oriented guide with FAQs, how-tos, tips, and time savers. 

You'll get a primer on how sound and digital audio work as well as technical setups, guidelines, and real solutions for:
* budgeting, scheduling, and preproduction planning
* microphones and room acoustics
* recording dialog, voice-overs, ADR, and effects
* postproduction hardware
* levels and digitizing
* working with music and sound effects
* producing the final mix

New to this edition:
* information on the latest cameras and field recorders
* choices between single- and double-system, and digital workflows
* the differences between traditional video soundtracks and dialog-driven storytelling.

Please visit the author's website for additional resources: www.dplay.com/book/pgs3e
 

Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Producing Great Sound for Film & Video is shelved as Call # TK7881.4 .R67 2008.

Audio in Media

Audio in Media

Description*
Audio in Media is comprehensive, technically accurate, and up-to-date. The clear and current illustrations and photos and student-friendly writing in Alten's market-leading text have helped professors effectively teach this technically-based course to thousands of introductory audio production students. The text covers informational, perceptual, and aesthetic aspects of sound as they apply to each stage of the production process-from planning to post-production

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Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Audio in Media is shelved as Call #TK7881.4 .A46 1994.

Master Handbook of Acoustics

Master Handbook of Acoustics

Description*
Master Handbook of Acoustics presents clear explanations of acoustic phenomena and provides a hands-on approach to room design. Learn how to perform acoustics measurements, choose room dimensions, assign speaker placements, analyze response curves, and design and instal sound absorbers and diffusers. You will also find details on how to fine-tune room reverberation, minimize external noise, and apply psychoacoustic concepts.

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Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Master Handbook of Acoustics is shelved as Call # QC225.15.E95 2009.

Experiencing Music Technology

Experiencing Music Technology

Description*
Experiencing Music Technology presents cutting-edge music technology and its applications so you can stay ahead of this fast-changing field.

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Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Experiencing Music Technology is shelved as Call # ML74.W55 2006. As a book it can be found on Bookstack # 2 - Shelf # 11. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff.

About the Author

David Brian Williams is Emeritus Professor of Music and Arts Technology at Illinois State University. Peter Richard Webster is the John Beattie Professor of Music Education and Technology at Northwester University's School of Music.
     

Surroung Sound: Up and Running

Surround Sound: Up and Running

Description*
Surround Sound: Up and Running offers a wealth of practical information for recording engineers. It examines such topics as loudspeakers, room acoustics, bass management, as well as variety of available microphone and recording techniques and tips for postproduction. A thorough study of distribition formats, including an overview of existing and emerging media, and the psychoacoustics of multichannel sound complete this book.

Audio Postproduction for Film and Video

Audio Postproduction for Film and Video

Description*

Audio Postproduction for Film and Video is the resource to make your soundtracks as good as your pictures. This book includes professional audio techniques that can be adapted to desktop post. Specializing in sound after the shoot, this book features many practical examples, cookbook recipes, and tutorials. Audio theory, when necessary, is presented in plain English with plenty of visual analogies.

FAQs, full explanations, and from-the-trenches tips address the complete range of processes from wiring and hardware to testing the final mix. The one-hour audio CD features platform-independent diagnostics, demonstrations, and tutorial tracks. Novices will learn how to improve their soundtrack--even after the actors have gone home. Experienced producers will learn how to solve technical and creative problems quickly.
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Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Audio Postproduction for Film and Video is shelved as Call # TK7881.4 .R67 2009. As a book it can be found on Bookstack 4 - Shelf 8. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff.

The Producer's Business Handbook: The Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer

The Producer's Business Handbook

Description*
The Producer's Business Handbook: The Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer allows you to gain a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and learn to successfully engage in all related aspects of global production and exploitation. You'll learn to create the relationships that the most successful producers have with the various participants in the motion picture industry-this guide provides a global view of how producers direct their relationships with domestic and foreign studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors.

You get a thorough orientation to operating production development and single-purpose production companies. You'll also become familiar with the team roles needed to operate these companies, and learn how to attach and direct them. For those outside the US, also included is information on how to produce successful films without government funding. This edition has been updated to include comprehensive information on the internal greenlighting process, government financing, and determining actual cost-of-money. It includes new, simplified project evaluation tools, expediting funding and distribution. Together with its companion website (www.producersbusinesshb.com)--which contains valuable forms and spreadsheets, tutorials, and samples-this handbook presents both instruction and worksheet support to independent producers at all levels of experience. Read More at Amazon

Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

The Producer's Business Handbook is shelved as Call # PN1993.5 .U6 2011. As a book it can be found on Bookstack 2 - Shelf 13. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff.

Audio Collection Highlight

Recording:
The Magazine For The Recording Musician

Latest Edition
Summer is hotter than ever at RECORDING, and our August issue touches on a very hot subject: Plug-ins and support software for your DAW. We take a look at how you can extend the power and capability of your DAW in a variety of ways.

Business Voice Magazine

Business Voice

Description*
Business Voice is the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce's monthly magazine, and is distributed to nearly 10,000 business professionals every month. It features local business news and content paired with important considerations for small business owners. 

Read More at http://www.lvchamber.com/business-voice

Where to Find It and Borrowing Time
As a magazine, Business Voice can be found on the magazine rack in the front of the LRC. This rack is arranged alphabetically. This magazine can be checked out for a period of 5 days for students, faculty and staff. 

Citations

Description taken from SITE: ( http://www.lvchamber.com/business-voice )

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Lynda.com Audio Course Highlights

The Audio library includes courses on topics such as DAW, Mixing + Mastering, Scoring + Composition, and the Foundations of Audio. 

• The “Pro Tools 10 Essential Training” course illuminates the process of recording, editing, mixing, and mastering in Pro Tools, the industry-standard software for music and postproduction. 
• The “Foundations of Audio: Delay and Modulation” course shows the fundamentals of delay and modulation effects and how to apply these effects, technically and creatively, to improve the sound of a mix. 
• The “GarageBand '11 Essential Training” course demonstrates the tools and techniques necessary to create, edit, and publish music and podcasts in GarageBand '11. 
• The "Audio for Film and Video with Pro Tools" course shows how to create an evocative sound mix for a film or video, built from basic audio collected during the shoot and transformed into a final mix using Pro Tools. 
• The "Flash CS4 Professional Audio Techniques" course dives deep into the details of manipulating audio in Flash using ActionScript 3.0; shows how to create an audio player for the web.

Remember: To gain access, you must email the Librarian at sleif@iadtvegas.com with your full name, school email and student ID# if you're a student, or Department if you are faculty. You can also swing by the LRC/Library and give the Librarian the same information in person.