Product Description

This book's comprehensive diagrams and clear, jargon-free language mean any user will soon be able to master this increasingly important area of music.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #118691 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02
• Released on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Customer Reviews

Great for musicians and multimedia programmers
I highly recommend this inexpensive little book for absolute beginners whether they be programmers or musicians. No real prior knowledge of music terminology is required to understand the simple but necessary questions and answers discussed in this book. The author also talks about basic connections to equipment for musicians and lists the various messages and codes that both musicans and programmers need to know. I needed this information to work with the Java Sound MIDI programming language features. I could find plenty of sample programs using these features, but the explanations were purely from a programmers point of view and I had no idea what the big picture was. This little book solved all of that. Its purpose is to only answer the "big picture" questions, so when you finish this book I suggest you pick up "The S.M.A.R.T. Guide to Producing Music with Samples, Loops, and MIDI". It is very comprehensive and although it is aimed at musicians, I've learned a lot about what musicians are looking for in terms of writing applications for them involving Java and MIDI.

Gotta Get This!
If you're struggling to understand some or all aspects of MIDI, this is the book for you. It is written in standard, non-technical English for easy comprehension. You can learn the basics of MIDI to run a setup of MIDI devices in no time or for whatever application(s) you wish to use MIDI. This book also covers some basics of sequencing and synthesis that you can apply to your music. You simply cannot miss out on this great bargain.

Book Not As Described
This book is barely bigger than your thumb. It doesn't even look like the picture on Amazon's page. If you are over 30 buy a microscope - you'll need it to try to read it. It won't lay flat to use a reference. The author should sue the publisher for incompetent packaging of what most others describe as a good book. I wouldn't know; I can't read it.