Interesting and inspirational reading matter

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Yes and yes. It’s a beautiful book and people are already calling it “The Modular Bible”.

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Oh man! That’s crazy! Everyone should check that out…

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awesome! i ordered. looking forward :slight_smile:

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Got it! dear lord it’s perfect. It’s everything I’ve been looking for. So stoked

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Not directly synthesis related but I just bought In the Field: The Art of Field Recording as it’s something I want to start getting into. Lots of interviews and advice from experienced field recordenisationists. Is that the right word?

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Interesting first chapter read for me so far… free ebook about ambient music, just mentioned in yesterday’s Synthtopia article. A quote from the introduction : “this book should be read as a starting point for future research, one that seeks to critically interrogate the very meaning of ‘ambient’, how it creates its effect, and how the genre can remain vital and relevant in twenty-first century music-making.”

https://unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/books/19/

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YES! My copy of “Patch and Tweak” has arrived. :star_struck:

There’s a couple of birthdays and Christmas presents rolled into that purchase :wink:

EDIT after a 30 minute read - Now I know what HP means!!! This book has paid for itself already :+1:

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Springer have set 400+ text books to be downloaded for free until July. Lots of interesting stuff. The section headed “Free textbook title lists” on the linked page includes downloads to spreadsheets listing the titles and their URLs.

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not technical but still interresting to read: https://makingmusic.ableton.com/

The Book is available as Free download in pdf format.

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I’ve been perusing Jim Aikin’s Csound Power, an excellent guide to Csound. It isn’t focused on modular synthesis per se, but Csound can be considered as a gigantic collection of modules that are organized into entities (orc/sco files, i.e. instruments and scores) similar to modular patches. Jim is an exceptional writer, the book is a pleasure to read and a great introduction to one of the most powerful systems for software sound synthesis. Alas, the book is now out of print and difficult to find. The listings at Amazon are ridiculously priced, but an eBook is available for ~US$35.

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Ok, really lots of stuff, I just started adding William Hartmann’s textbook on acoustics to my collection:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-6786-1
now it sits in good company next to the works of Thomas Rossing and to the one from Harry Olson, dated 1957 :slight_smile:

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Jim is currently doing a series of tutorials about… VCV Rack. :slight_smile:

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Big Jim! EDIT: my first exclamation was “Bug Jim!” (it was a typo…) :smile:

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This discussion about this

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Not sure if this falls into reading matter, but sharing anyway as it may inspire some interesting panel designs. :slight_smile:

The original story is from http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/27986-2.

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It’s worth it for the hats in the first picture alone.

(Side note: Mosfilm has a Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/mosfilm. In case you’re a fan of that Soviet esthetic).

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not great, not terrible…

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This is kinda interesting. (Particularly for me right now as I’m struggling with a panel design.)

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Ouch, that sounds familiar.

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more topics about different resources:

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