Designing Sound
by Andy Farnell · Andy Farnell
Andy Farnell's MIT Press book on procedural audio: building sound effects from physical and acoustic principles rather than recordings. Using Pure Data patches, it works from signal-processing fundamentals to models of fire, water, engines, and machines, teaching readers to synthesize sounds analytically.
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