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Favourite books related to music production etc
I'm currently reading this, it is an excellent source of all kinds of creative ideas, for any kind of music, not just electronic:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00WHXYZG8/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
Feel free to share anything you have read that has rocked.
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This one is also good, though I've only dipped into it so far:
https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Music-Manual-Tools-Techniques/dp/1138319643
Gotta go with “The Beatles Recording Sessions” by Mark Lewisohn. I got it in the early ‘90’s around the time I began recording so it never failed to get me inspired.
The past few years I’ve reread it cover to cover a few times since Apple has released these big super deluxe 50 year anniversary editions of Sgt. Pepper, The White Album and Abbey Road that include incredible outtakes and raw audio from the sessions. It was so cool hearing some of these outtakes that Lewisohn described in the book so many years later.
There’s another great book called “Behind The Glass” by Howard Massey that has tons of interviews with producers & engineers from over the years on the making of their hits.
Lastly just for nostalgia, the Billboard Book of Home Recording was one of the first, if not the first, home recording books I checked out from the library in the early 90’s. No DAW’s, no AutoTune, no plugins...this was when a home studio was either a PortaStudio or a reel to reel & a mixer. While it doesn’t cover the technology of today, it covers the basics so well. The section on micing drums and acoustic guitar totally helped me understand the spectrum of frequencies, that all things had to occupy and share that space. It’s an old favorite...
https://www.mixingwithyourmind.com/
I’d wholeheartedly recommend Kim Bjorn’s beautiful ‘Push Turn Move’.
https://www.pushturnmove.com/products/push-turn-move-the-book
Also, I just had a look at buying the OP’s ‘Making Music: 74 Creative strategies’ book - it was over £50 on eBay and Amazon, but a much more attractive £25 including postage new from the Ableton site. £6.99 for kindle edition.
Music Production Books I've read (and recommend)
Making Music - 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers - Dennis DeSantis/Ableton
https://www.ableton.com/en/shop/#making-music
Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio (Mike Senior)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mixing-Secrets-Small-Studio-Presents/dp/1138556378
The Secrets of Dance Music Production - Various/Attack
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Dance-Music-Production/dp/0956446035
Music Theory for Computer Musicans - Michael Hewitt
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Theory-Computer-Musicians-Michael-Hewitt/dp/1598635034
Music Production Books I plan to read (one day)
The Music Producer's Survival Guide: Chaos, Creativity, and Career in Independent and Electronic Music - Brian M Jackson
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Producers-Survival-Guide-Independent/dp/1138697850
Refining Sound: A Practical Guide To Synthesis And Synthesizers - Brian K Shepard
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0199922969
Audio Engineering 101: A Beginner's Guide to Music Production - Tim Dittmar
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0240819152
Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science - Bob Katz
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0240818962
Principles of Digital Audio - Ken Pohlmann
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0071663460
Mixing and Mastering in the Box: The Guide To Making Great Mixes And Final Masters On Your Computer - Steve Savage
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0199929327
I just ordered this from Ableton
Making Music - 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers - Dennis DeSantis/Ableton
https://www.ableton.com/en/shop/#making-music
Mastering Audio by Bob Katz
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Lot of great tips, nice, keep ‘em coming!
https://www.mixingaudio.com/
https://books.apple.com/se/book/how-to-make-a-noise-analog-synthesis/id470232597
By Simon Cann
This one goes deep!!!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9572760-designing-sound
Not cheap but have been reading and re-reading for the last few years so it’s been great value for money here.
https://goodreads.com/book/show/22948313-power-tools-for-synthesizer-programming
I have fiiiiiiinally found a book on MIDI that actually describes how you use it. I have spent about £60 on 2 other MIDI books. One of them is very good at being an encyclopedia of MIDI with a few Dummies-style breakout boxes amongst the 400 or so pages. The other tries to be like that but is very poor indeed, padded with superfluous material and pretty terribly set out too.
Anyway, this one was £2.99. 150 pages of MIDI goodness. The Practical MIDI Handbook.
Are Ableton still giving this away, anyone know?
Not sure, but I'm sure you can find a free download somewhere if you look hard enough.
I bought the hardcopy from the Ableton website the day it came out and have never regretted it. Absolutely beautiful book.
Still a classic, from the 80s:
https://amazon.com/Drum-Machine-Patterns-Leonard-Corp/dp/0881888877
https://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Dance-Music-Grooves-Hip-Hop/dp/1480393762/
This is good for dance music beats. Not much theory (there really isn't much on rhythm theory in music for some reason), but lots of examples.
I have a found this so far to be great to break through some of my writers block or laziness or fear of making a track.....
https://www.amazon.com/The-War-of-Art-Steven-Pressfield-audiobook/dp/B07PTBYH2G
FUCK!
I was gonna post a photo of my TapeOp book and I can’t find It!. Been looking everywhere. Who has it? I want it back.
https://www.amazon.com/Keyboard-Presents-Steal-This-Sound/dp/1423492811/ref=sr_1_1?crid=W7JD3JHG3AHK&dchild=1&keywords=steal+this+sound&qid=1616677106&sprefix=Steal+this+s,aps,173&sr=8-1
Just got this and the other one with 200 patterns. I am always on the lookout for drum machine books. I also have The Drum Programming Handbook by Justin Paterson. Drum Programming by Ray F. Badness (Ray also wins the best name ever competition). Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers is quite helpful too. The Roland Drum Machine Rhythm Dictionary is out there in PDF format for the cost of a Google.
There are quite a lot of practical drum machine books but they're difficult to track down.
PSA from your forum librarian: your local library may be able to get specific books for you via Interlibrary Loan if they don’t have local copies.
All You Need Is Ears
by George Martin and Jeremy Hornsby
Oblique Strategies cards
by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
@ashh Thanks for the tip on the Roland PDF!
Then you should get the book I posted a link to. It's the best drum machine book that I know of (though there are some good books on drumming that also work).
Got the Drum Machine Patterns and Drum Programming by Ray Badness
Awesome books that helped me a lot in my Boss DR-505 and MC-303 era
Oh... btw... got a recommendation for this one on my email:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/so-like-what-do-i-do/id586852041
It's free, so I downloaded, but am only gonna have some time to read it tonight. So i'm not sure on the quality
Thank you so much! The google search led me to this cool collection on archive.org with many more free resources. Probably some of these drum machine books you mentioned might be there. https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_music