sound synthesis and sampling

		Sound sampling and synthesis, aka 'SS&S' My book, as published by Focal Press,and available from Amazon. The cover shown on the left is from the first edition, which first went on sale in 1996.

		I had been working for some time on a new 'completely revised and updated' second edition, and it (SS&SII, as I've known it for the past few years) was published in May 2004. The new edition features a completely new chapter which looks at using synthesizers in live performance, and will have a new front cover , as shown on the left. This web-site will eventually present some additional material related to the book, plus any corrections.

		New Easter Egg Zero (July 2004) This idea came to me when I updated the main page for the book on this site in July. [ 60 Kbytes ]

		SY99 floppy drive replacement (July 2004) How I replaced a floppy disk drive in one of my synthesizers...

		Mixer History (work in progress) A brief history of the mixer... This sounded like an easy project. The reality has proved more challenging. It seems that there is very little information available on the history of the mixer, so I'm gathering whatever I can...

		CD-ROM Easter Egg 1 (work in progress) When the CD-ROM accompaniment for the first edition of the book was produced, I included a few special hidden features. Since the CD-ROM is no longer available, I'm going to gradually include some of them, plus some new ones, here...

		New Easter Egg 2 (work in progress) If I have time, then I plan to try to add an Easter Egg every Easter... So far, I'm not doing very well.

		LIMTEC Keynote (November 2006: work in progress) I was invited to give the keynote speech on the final day of the Leeds College of Music's Music Education Technology Conference (LIMTEC) in November 2006, and I'm going to put some of the highlights here...