Electronic music instruments known as synthesizers have been around since the 1950s, but the past few decades have seen their capabilities expand exponentially and their forms shape-shift from room-filling grandeur to sophisticated applications that run on pocket-sized phones an…
Vail tells the complete story of the synthesizer: the origins of the many forms the instrument takes, the crucial advancements in sound generation, musical control, and composition, and the basics and intricacies of acoustics and synthesized sound. He gives the reader informatio…
Vail tells the complete story of the synthesizer: the origins of the many forms the instrument takes; the crucial advancements in sound generation, musical control, and composition; and the basics and intricacies of acoustics and synthesized sound. He gives the reader informatio…