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Apress Raspberry Pi GPU Audio Video Programming 2017 Retail eBook

Delve into the Broadcom VideoCore GPU used on the Raspberry Pi and master topics such as OpenGL ES and OpenMAX. Along the way, you’ll also learn some Dispmanx, OpenVG, and GPGPU programming.

The author, Jan Newmarch bumped into a need to do this kind of programming while trying to turn the RPi into a karaoke machine: with the CPU busting its gut rendering MIDI files, there was nothing left for showing images such as karaoke lyrics except for the GPU, and nothing really to tell him how to do it.

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Sounds, Societies, Significations: Numanistic Approaches to Music

This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.

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Handbook of Sound Studio Construction: Rooms for Recording and Listening

Build first-class recording studios and listening spaces. Design and build your own audiophile-grade recording and playback environments using proven, cost-effective plans and techniques. Handbook of Sound Studio Construction: Rooms for Recording and Listening explains practical acoustical properties and describes how to engineer acoustically sensitive spaces, including music recording studios, control rooms, voice studios, home project studios, A/V suites, media rooms, and surround-sound home theaters.

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Tonal Harmony, 8 edition by Stefan Kostka Tonal Harmony and Dorothy Payne Tonal Harmony

For a generation of professionals in the musical community, Tonal Harmony has provided a comprehensive, yet accessible and highly practical, set of tools for understanding music. With this new edition, twenty-first century technology meets a time-honored tradition. Now available in McG-H Education’s Connect® with SmartBook®, students are better equipped to understand and master the vocabulary of music efficiently,allowing them to move on more quickly to advanced musical skill-building.

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Ric Viers The Sound Effects Bible PDF

The Sound Effects Bible is the complete guide to recording, editing, and designing your own sound effects. If it snaps, crackles, pops, crashes, booms or bangs, it can be found somewhere in this first-ever book on the black art of Foley and sound effects. This definitive book covers microphone selection, field recorders, the ABCs of digital audio, understanding digital audio workstations, building your own Foley stage, designing your own editing studio, sound design, and much more.

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Podcasting For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

Produce a podcast like the pros

More people than ever are turning to podcasts for on-demand, mobile entertainment and information. Podcasting For Dummies offers a fast and easy way to get the know-how you need to produce and distribute one of your very own. Written by a pair of podcasting pioneers, this book shares insight on the technology behind recording, editing, and sharing podcasts, along with tips and tricks on how to produce a pro-level podcast.

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Goodnight, L.A.: The Rise and Fall of Classic Rock--The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios

A behind-the-scenes journey through the rise and demise of the '70s and '80s classic rock era

Before disco, punk, hair metal, rap, and eventually grunge took it all away, the music scene in Los Angeles was dominated by rock 'n' roll. If a group wanted to hit it big, L.A. was the place to be. But in addition to the bands themselves finding their footing, their albums also needed some guidance. That came from a group of dedicated producers and engineers working in a cadre of often dilapidated-looking buildings that contained some of the greatest recording studios the music industry has ever known.

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Blues Guitar Chords and Accompaniment

“Blues Guitar Chords and Accompaniment” is the ultimate guide for learning how to play guitar accompaniment in blues, one of the oldest and most popular forms of American music. Staring with such basics as tuning, music notation, and chord theory, the book guides you step by step through a variety of basic open chords, strumming patterns, and accompaniment styles, along with numerous techniques involved in blues rhythm guitar. Throughout the book, you’ll find easy-to-follow diagrams, ample music examples and exercises, and various blues riffs and sample songs.

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Music Theory 101: From keys and scales to rhythm and melody, an essential primer on the basics of music theory

Learn the basics of music theory in this comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide.

From classical to hard rock, and jazz to hip hop, music is constantly evolving, but many of the basics have stayed the same. Understanding these basics is key to becoming a successful musician and well-rounded music lover.

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Cakewalk SONAR Help Documentation v1.0.0.54-R2R

SONAR is more than just a digital audio workstation - it's the most advanced music production environment available today. Choose the creative experience only SONAR offers: advanced technology, effortless workflow, and an inviting interface that amplifies inspiration. Capture pristine recordings in the award-winning, touch-enabled Skylight User Interface—then take advantage of the comprehensive editing, mixing, mastering, and publishing tools to craft your masterpiece.

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The Rythm Bible By Dan Fox Book and MP3

Whether you're a student or professional, a jazz player, rocker, or salsa enthusiast, performing today's music can be challenging. Developed by the author during a lifetime spent as an arranger and performer, this unique, well-planned book, trains musicians to understand and perform the most complex rhythms at sight.

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Harmonic Exercises For Jazz Piano: Short Version

The purpose of this book is to develop your knowledge of the voice-leading used in jazz harmony and extend your technical abilities in that direction. The exercises will help you to learn the basic way of building chords, develop your technical abilities and help you gain a better understanding of the logic in the harmonic movement.

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Music Theory, 3rd Edition (Idiot's Guides)

Many people find music theory a tough subject—but it doesn't have to be! The best-selling Idiot's Guides: Music Theory, Third Edition, is a concise and clear guide that teaches any budding musician (and even more experienced ones) how to read musical notation by navigating the basics of reading and composing music. This book covers:

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With Passionate Voice: Re-Creative Singing in Sixteenth-Century England and Italy

Musicians in the 16th century had a vastly different understanding of the structure and performance of music than today's performers. In order to transform inexpressively notated music into passionate declamation, Renaissance singers treated scores freely, and it was expected that each would personalize the music through various modifications, which included ornamentation. Their role was one of musical re-creation rather than of simple interpretation–the score represented a blueprint, not a master plan, upon which they as performer built the music. As is now commonly recognized, this flexible approach to scores changed over the centuries; the notation on the page itself became an ostensible musical Urtext and performers began following it much more closely, their sole purpose being to reproduce what was thought to be the composer's intentions. Yet in recent years, scholars and performers are once again freeing themselves from the written page–but the tools for doing so have long been out of reach.

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Signal Analysis of Hindustani Classical Music

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the basics of Hindustani music and the associated signal analysis and technological developments. It begins with an in-depth introduction to musical signal analysis and its current applications, and then moves on to a detailed discussion of the features involved in understanding the musical meaning of the signal in the context of Hindustani music. The components consist of tones, shruti, scales, pitch duration and stability, raga, gharana and musical instruments. The book covers the various technological developments in this field, supplemented with a number of case studies and their analysis. The book offers new music researchers essential insights into the use the automatic concept for finding and testing the musical features for their applications. Intended primarily for postgraduate and PhD students working in the area of scientific research on Hindustani music, as well as other genres where the concepts are applicable, it is also a valuable resource for professionals and researchers in musical signal processing.

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Introduction to Live Sound Reinforcement - The Science, the Art, and the Practice

This book is an invaluable resource for burgeoning audio engineers. With clear writing and comprehensive illustrations, fundamental concepts of acoustics are explained in easy to understand language. The operating principles of the essential components of a sound system, as well as their use in the design and implementation of the system, are covered in detail. Operational aspects of executing a live performance are also given full treatment. By providing practical information surrounding the concepts, implementations, and practices central to live sound reinforcement, this book sets the foundation upon which to build and move forward with confidence.

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Elements Of Human Voice by C. Julian Chen

This is the first book about human voice that includes the physics and physiology of voice production, mathematical representations, and technology applications in a single volume by a single author from a single and novel point of view. The book expounds a novel and unified view on human voice, targeting at researchers, practitioners and students of several different fields of science and technology, including physiology and medicine, acoustics, computer science, linguistics especially phonetics, and musicology.

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Playing Guitar So Easy: The Ultimate Book For Beginner

Designed for most kinds of guitar beginners
Only easy playing, no hard theory
Song melody 』、『 Accompaniment 』、『 Fingerstyle playing 』 on guitar in a simple way

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JFilt The 16 Pad Scale Manual 2014 RETAIL eBook

The year 2013 introduced “The world’s first chord ebook for a Drum Machine“. Now it’s perfect companion is available for all beatmakers to excel to even a greater level. The 16 Pad Scale Manual is here to provide a simple system to create melodies and bass lines on top of your beats.

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Berklee Press The Private Guitar Studio Handbook

Teach guitar for profit!

This book shows you how to set up and develop a guitar studio. Besides the ability to teach guitar, running a profitable studio requires effective systems for attracting and retaining students, ensuring prompt payments, and handling of operations issues smoothly. This book will show you the essential considerations, from choosing a space (residential or commercial), to marketing, to specific teaching aids.

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