Dance Music Manual
by Rick Snoman · Focal Press
Focal Press manual on producing club-oriented electronic music, covering MIDI, synthesis, sampling, compression, sound design, then genre-specific arrangement for house, trance and hip hop, plus mixing, mastering and release. Readers gain a full production workflow from sound to finished track.
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