Designing Sound Farnell Andy Consultant/contractor Digital Audio ; Part time lecturer School of Audio Engineering/ Middlesex Un

A practitioner's guide to the basic principles of creating sound effects using easily accessed free software.Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. The text takes a practitioner's perspective, exploring the basic principles of making ordinary, everyday sounds using an easily accessed free software. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles, guided by analysis and synthesis.

Sound is considered as a process, rather than as data--an approach sometimes known as "procedural audio." Procedural sound is a living sound effect that can run as computer code and be changed in real time according to unpredictable events. Readers use the Pure Data (Pd) language to construct sound objects, which are more flexible and useful than recordings. Applications include