Making Music With Digital Audio: Direct to Disk Recording on the PC [Paperback]

Ian Waugh (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 249 pages
• Publisher: PC Pub (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878427563
• ISBN-13: 978-1878427564
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,575,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teaches you to effectively work with audio files, August 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Music With Digital Audio: Direct to Disk Recording on the PC (Paperback)

Making Music with Digital Audio by Ian Waugh is an easy to read and informative book dealing with creating, editing, and post processing sound files on the PC. The book covers introductory material dealing with digital recording, hardware and software considerations, editing of digital files, and moving the files onto CD's or DAT tapes. What really makes this book special is the explanations of editing and special effects processes which can be applied to digital audio files. Several commercial audio editors are used as examples and the descriptions of what the controls do are complete enough to allow the reader to apply them to other software packages. Most important, Mr. Waugh describes what the various special effects can do to the sound file and why you might want to use them. If you are a new user to digital audio editing and are trying to learn to use audio processing software, this is a must read. This book does not go into the mathematics of digital audio and is suitable for a person without a signal processing background. It is also for people with an engineering background, as knowing the math and being able to do something useful with a sound file are not the same thing.

For completeness, here are the chapter titles: What is d-t-d recording?; What is sound?; Digital audio basics; The PC system; The hard disk; Storage and backup media; The soundcard; The software; Recording and Playback; Editing; Processing and FX; CD ROMs; Digital audio and multimedia; Audio and MIDI; Mixdown and mastering; Troubleshooting; Glossary; Appendix 1 (Copyrights and wrongs); Appendix 2 (Using the Internet, Useful contacts); Index

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful basic information, but not for Macintosh users., December 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Music With Digital Audio: Direct to Disk Recording on the PC (Paperback)

While the information and theory is useable by those involved with Digital Audio too much space is devoted to PC specific applications and hardware while ignoring the large base of Macintosh audio professionals. The writer is British and writes from his knowledge of Digital Audio in Britain which is vastly different than my experience. The basics and effects theory is useful if only about 30 pages of the book.