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From: mu298ac@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Philip Marlowe)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Books on massaging waveforms...
Summary: Watch out for errors!
Keywords: samples sound
Message-ID: <11785@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 7 Jul 90 05:12:36 GMT
References: <4090@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <987@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu>
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In article <987@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> sandell@ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell) writes:
>In article <4090@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, tonyg@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Tony
>Gedge) writes:
>> Can someone point me towards a good starting book in manipulating
>> sampled sound?  I want to do things like:
>
>I would get the new book on Computer Music by F. R. Moore which is out
>in Prentice-Hall, 1990.  The title is something like (sorry, I don't have it
>here in my office) THE ESSENTIALS OF COMPUTER MUSIC.  

	The title is ELEMENTS OF COMPUTER MUSIC by F. Richard Moore
(Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1990; ISBN # 0-13-252552-6).  I am
plowing through it right now, at Professor Moore's suggestion.  I have
two caveats about the book:

	1.  It presumes strong familiarity with a programming
language, preferably C.

	2.  The book is laden with misprints.  There are entire
pages of code missing, mislabeled examples, etc.

	My roommate took a course with Moore which used this text.
By the end of the quarter, he had:  designed time-varying filters;
adapted code in Moore's book to write his own phase vocoder;
implemented linear prediction, again based on code supplied in
Moore's book.

	I must stress, however, that there are very serious
misprints.  If you do shell out thirty bucks for the book, be sure to
write the publisher and ask for errata--Moore has been compiling a
list since the book came out.  Once the errors are corrected, the
book will be wonderful!

				Chris Hertzog