Book: The Dance Music Manual by Rick Snoman

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Posted by cheesy on Oct-29-2004 00:28:

Book: The Dance Music Manual by Rick Snoman

I just bought this book, it looks pretty good, anyone seen it?

Posted by Thunder5 on Oct-29-2004 18:43:

So you have already lost it?

Posted by cheesy on Oct-29-2004 19:21:

haha, no really, it looks like a great book, they cover everything from MIDI to music theory. There's 3 main sections:

1) Technology and Theory - computers/music/midi/audio, dance music theory, basic synthesis, sampling/digital audio, compression/processing/effects, cables/mixing decks/effects busses, programming theory, recording vocals, and about 20 different hardware and software tools

2) Dance Genres - trance, hip-hop/rap, ambient/chill-out, house, techno, trip-hop

3) Mixing and Promotion - mixing, mastering, publishing/promotion, remixing/sample clearance, even two guest chapters: "designing an audio website" and "a dj's perspective"

plus a bunch of apendixes for midi and whatnot

it could take me awhile to get through te whole thing, its about 500 pages.

edit: oh yeah, it also comes with a CD full of software tools/demos, and a bunch of sample songs for each genre, before and after comparisons of mastering/effects/etc

Posted by Thunder5 on Oct-29-2004 19:29:

Whats the ISBN?

Posted by cheesy on Oct-29-2004 19:33:

0-240-51915-9