Sound Synthesis and Sampling, 2nd Edition

Preface to second edition

This second edition has revised and updated all of the material in the first edition, correcting a few minor errors, and adding a completely new chapter on performance aspects (Chapter 8), which shows how synthesizers have become embedded within more sophisticated musical performance instruments, rather than always being stand-alone synthesizers per se. This theme is also explored further in the extended ‘Future of synthesis’ chapter.

I have strived to maintain the abstraction of the techniques away from specific manufacturers, and with only a few exceptions, the only place where details of individual instruments or software will be found is in the ‘Examples’ sections at the end of each chapter.

Taking a cue from other ...