At 8:46 AM -0700 5/17/05, Mike Estee wrote:
Keyboard Magazine (or maybe under the older name of Contemporary
Keyboard) and look up Roger Powell's columns you'd get a great
introduction to simulating acoustic instruments. I still remember his
description of all the bits of a drum sound (i.e., stick tap, head
vibration, shell resonance) and how that opened my eyes to listening,
in a sense. I think there were some columns or articles around that
time by Larry Fast as well that went in the same direction. While not
a $100 book, those columns will certainly be a good start if you can
find them.
Seth
> > I'd pay $100-150 for a nice book well written on the subject. I have someThis might take some work, but if you could dig up the old issues of
>> reading material, but none of it was written from the well rounded
>> experience with patching that Ken has shown us
>
>I'd agree with that. A well illustraited, clearly written book on the
>topic of analog synthesis as it pertains to creating realistic simulations
>would be worth ~100$ to me as well.
Keyboard Magazine (or maybe under the older name of Contemporary
Keyboard) and look up Roger Powell's columns you'd get a great
introduction to simulating acoustic instruments. I still remember his
description of all the bits of a drum sound (i.e., stick tap, head
vibration, shell resonance) and how that opened my eyes to listening,
in a sense. I think there were some columns or articles around that
time by Larry Fast as well that went in the same direction. While not
a $100 book, those columns will certainly be a good start if you can
find them.
Seth