What's the best books for sound design?

Is "Welsh's Synthesizer Cookbook" a good book?

 

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Electronic Music and Sound Design
Theory and Practice with Max and MSP -
Alessandro Cipriani & Maurizio Giri

 

That cookbook seems to cover the basics. But it maybe a little too basic. I'd do further reading (and watch video's) that focus on the style & synths you like best; EDM and Dubstep both need totally different programming..

 

Let's talk about videos and another sources also please but not only books?

 

Ppl saying that what is synth doesn't matter, but it's matter actually. Because not every synths are equal each other.
Here some unique synths:
Linplug Cronox 3
Camel Audio Alchemy
NI Absynth
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
U-he Bazille

 

What Type of Sound Design are you refering to?
Do you mean Sound Synthesis for music?
Or do you mean post production? As in creating sound(s) for moving pictures?
These are 2 different approaches.

 

Sounds for music

 

Got syntorial and it's really helping a lot

Still want a good book lol

 

Look for "Creating Sounds from Scratch" by Andrea Pejrolo et. al., also available on sister site.

I was skimming this recently, and it's exactly what you want, a plain language book that explains the intricacies and then says "OK, try this and this in a synth now and see what it sounds like". Good way to learn quickly and on your own.

 

I think there is really not much things to know in sound design. Of course there is ways to do courses and rules, but in my opinion it's one of those sound domain where experimentation and self-thinking is way more important than learning. You just need to know the basic, how an OSC or a filter works, how digital synthesis works in general. But apart from that, don't spend too much time reading others people's sound design techniques, make your own!

 

Straight YouTube. No need for books. Why read on sound design when you can actually experience it sonically and visually?

Grab a Synth and look for some tutorials for it. Echo Soundworks has some nice ones. Dorian Day has some great in depth tutorials for Massive and Serum. https://www.youtube.com/user/doriandaymusic/videos

As far as the whole theory aspects are concerned, it's good to know them but not necessarily mandatory.

 

get Serum, select the analog basic waveforms. Get familiar with those

get familiar with the amp envelope, play around until you understood a little bit more then before

activate the filter amd play with its cutoff and resonance, tie envelope 2 to that filter and play around

activate and deactivate some other modules, play

go to fx, play with the delay and reverb. Then try out the other effects

If you like that, and still want a book, read the manual for Serum

 

just need to study frequencies and harmonics and transients attack and release or decay

 

I think the best book would be a Physics book. Master the Physics and you won't need a cookbook after that, that has been my experience. Although I had a good fortune of having a successful producer mentor me to look at synthesis as application of Physics, and that changed everything in my production.

You don't have to actually go and read a Physics text book, but just be aware and notice how the physics is working on the sound while you tweak any parameter even a bit; after a lot of practice, synthesis will become second nature .

 

As somebody wiser than myself once said "reading about music is like dancing about architecture"

 

https://es.scribd.com/document/2368...-Make-Your-Apps-Come-Alive-With-Dynamic-Audio

 

Last edited: Mar 24, 2017

"As somebody wiser than myself once said "reading about music is like dancing about architecture""


if you consider "wise" as being ambiguous maybe

 

music is a language, like all languages you have to learn it somehow