Sound Synthesis and Sampling, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 6

Making Sounds with Computer Software

CONTENTS

Computer History

  6.1 Mainframes to calculators

  6.2 Personal computers

  6.3 The PC as integrator

Computer Synthesis

  6.4 Computers and audio

  6.5 The plug-in

  6.6 Ongoing integration of the audio cycle

  6.7 Studios on computers: the integrated sequencer

  6.8 The rise of the abstract controller and fall of MIDI

  6.9 Dance, clubs and DJS

Environment

6.10 Sequencing

6.11 Recording

6.12 Performing

6.13 Examples

6.14 Questions

6.15 Timeline

6.1 Mainframes to calculators

Computers were initially used for number crunching in large corporate, education and government applications. Initial work concentrated on the connections between music and mathematics, and this ultimately led to the ...