Making Music On Your PC

The Beginners Guide to Music on PCs

Published by Abacus

Audience:

Making Music on Your PC is written for beginners who want learn how to make and play music on their PCs, with or without a boost from the Internet. It's for those who want to play, as well as for those who need to know about business applications for sound, such as embedding music in presentation documents.

This book is unique in the music and computers area because it's written for computer music novices, not for highly skilled technical wizards.

Book description:

Love Mozart? Or is Smashing Pumpkins more your style? Have you always wanted to learn to play but never had the time for formal lessons? Whatever your interest in music on the computer, Making Music on Your PC has the information you need to get started quickly and easily. Author Victoria Camp guides you through the basic steps to get you started making your own kind of music on the PC.

Making Music on Your PC covers:

Setting up your PC hardware to play music
Connecting your music keyboard (or other instrument) to your PC
Installing music software
Music construction sets: software for composing
Sampling - music instrumentation and playing it back - your way
Creating your own personal audio files using TV, movies and radio
Embedding audio in documents

Internet music topics:

Finding popular music sites on the Iriternet
Compressing music files and sending them to others via e~mail

On the companion CD-ROM:

Music composition software and demos
Shareware music utilities

Facts

Title: Making Music on Your PC
Author: Victoria Camp
Size: 7-3/8" X 9-1/4"
ISBN.. 1-55755-327-0
Price: $29.95 US / $39.95 CAN
Release: May 1997

Reprinted from Abacus press release.

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