Part 3

Music technology systems

 

This section deals with the structure of contemporary music technology systems, set within the context of the way in which people have used such systems over the years. The MIDI specification is introduced and discussed in Chapter 4. This leads to a description of the essential functional components of modern music technology systems in Chapter 5.

Most of Chapter 4 can be read without prior knowledge, although Section 4.7 will make more sense if read after Part 2 has been studied. Chapter 5 begins with an overview of sound processing, and this is followed by a section that describes signal processing techniques which are commonly found in digital audio and music technology systems. The latter parts of this chapter ...

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