Roe,
Although Alan Strange's book can be a bit tough, remember it started life as a manual for students taking a degree in electronic music.
Keep at it though, it is a fine text. Try out the examples and try to take the time to explore each module on it's own or with other modules that you understand well. This way you can get a better understanding of what happens when say a VCO fm input is fed by either another VCO, an LFO, an envelope, etc. It helps when you hear that sound in your head and decide to create it.
Best of all enjoy making noise, second best pastime there is.
regards
David Salter
Reuters Consulting
Tel: +44 20 7542 2402
Mob: +44 7990562402
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From: David Salter <david.salter@r...>
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Hi David,
I got it by mail, in zipped format. I downloaded and unzipped it on my computer. I noticed how simple André Stordeur explained it all. His drawings were perfect, for people like myself who are no techheads, to understand this complex world of sounds and volts. The example of that "grand father's clock" on the subject of the cyles of frequency was so enlightning! It was a good starting place, though only a starting place.
I too have the book by Allan Strange. Actually I have it three times. I got it first twice from Andrew Bunny. Cause my dumb computer, kept telling me there was error on the cdr!! I'm curious if my new computer can open it!
Then Allan Strange, the author himself, let all interested people via Andrew Bunny know, that they could purchase the book through himself. He found a publishing company to print another photo copy edition. So I contacted Strange via email and got a copy of the book for cheap. That was his own iniative. He said, he had a misprint for me if I wouldn't mind. I didn't so he send me this misprint. All the text is in good condition, only the cover is strange and the listing of the chapters makes no sense. The drawings are readable, although the letters are so tiny, their on the brink of unreadable. But I managed. To bad the pictures in the book are sometimes a blur.
This book which I studied for about 8 chapters, is not easy. That's why I'm reading and studying it again. That has nothing to do with the excellent explanations Strange gives us. Only the subject on the tech parts if difficult for me. But hé, I'm still learning and I'm so pleased I learned so much already, also on the technical side of things. I still find it all fascinating and do my best to understand it all.
cheers,
Roel.
David wrote:
Hi Roel,
I also bought the tutorial (a single floppy disk if I remember right) years ago
and it was my prime source until I got hold of DR Alan Strange's book. Pretty
good sources, both of them.
Regards
David Salter
Reuters Consulting
Tel: +44 20 7542 2402
Mob: +44 7990562402
Fax: +44 20 7542 2699
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