Product Description: A thorough overview of the uniquely powerful (and free) Csound system for music synthesis, CSOUND POWER offers new and existing users a clear, step-by-step guide to making music, designing sounds, and developing complete pieces. Throughout each chapter, author Jim Aikin offers user-friendly tutorials, code examples, diagrams, and tips designed to take Csound users from the essentials of sound synthesis, compositional techniques, and programming to advanced features that unleash amazing new musical possibilities...read more

Product Description: If you want to play the cello, this book is for you! Whether you're an absolute beginner wondering whether it might be fun to rent an instrument to try it out, a student in school who is thinking of signing up for an orchestra class, or a budding cellist who has been playing for a year or two and is looking for ways to develop a better technique and a better sound, PICTURE YOURSELF PLAYING CELLO will provide practical, hands-on advice that you can use...read more

Product Description: If you'd like to know about music theory but don't want to get bogged down in a stuffy college-level textbook, this guide was written just for you! It's a practical, no-nonsense book ideal for: young musicians learning guitar so they can play rock, folk or blues; DJs who've started recording their own tracks and need to know how chord progressions work; anyone who wants to play from the chord symbols in sheet music; classical musicians who want to do more than just "read the dots," and countless others...read more

Product Description: From hit records to home studios, synthesizers are used in almost every genre of music. This book fills the know-how gap left by skimpy or garbled owner's manuals. It maps out the components of contemporary synths in clear, concise detail, and discusses how they can be harnessed to achieve specific musical effects...read more

Discusses computer programs for making music and current sound synthesis techniques, covering topics including physical modeling, MIDI, and sampled loop libraries.

Product Description: This book, along with the tutorial examples on the companion CD-Rom, takes you step by step through creating your own sounds, beats, and songs in Fruityloops. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Trapped inside a walled city of telepaths in the Earth's distant past, Danlo Ree feels isolated and alone, until he is kidnapped by a band of wild humans who give him a taste of freedom. Original.

Human sea captain and adventurer Salas Tarag sets out to rescue a missing lilith, a mysterious veiled and hooded Vli priestess on a diplomatic mission to Falnerescu