Skip to Main Content
Digital Sound Processing for Music and Multimedia
book

Digital Sound Processing for Music and Multimedia

by Ross Kirk, Andy Hunt
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
334 pages
9h 10m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Digital Sound Processing for Music and Multimedia

11 Designing the musician-machine interface

 

Overview

It is said that a computer system is only as good as the people who use it. However, it is often the interface — the means by which people communicate with the computer — that is the limiting factor. This is equally true of computer music systems. This chapter considers the different ways in which people interact with machines.

It introduces the subject of human-computer interaction (HCI) and explains the variety of ways in which computer systems are operated. It then describes the common models by which interfaces to electronic musical instruments are designed, and considers their relative advantages and disadvantages. This knowledge leads to a series of guidelines for the development ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

A Professional Guide to Audio Plug-ins and Virtual Instruments

A Professional Guide to Audio Plug-ins and Virtual Instruments

Mike Collins
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists

Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists

Ge Wang, Perry Cook, Spencer Salazar, Ajay Kapur
Audio Source Separation and Speech Enhancement

Audio Source Separation and Speech Enhancement

Emmanuel Vincent, Tuomas Virtanen, Sharon Gannot
Parametric Time-Frequency Domain Spatial Audio

Parametric Time-Frequency Domain Spatial Audio

Ville Pulkki, Symeon Delikaris-Manias, Archontis Politis

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780240515069