Making Music with Your Computer 2E

The industry's bestselling book on this subject has been completely revised and expanded to bring you detailed, relevant instruction for using your computer to create music. Edstrom vividly covers MIDI orchestration, musicianship, today's latest technology and much more. He also uses example scores to demonstrate the use of computers and synthesizers to create music in a variety of modes. Much more than a tech manual, this book teaches you the theory behind today's music styles and explains in great detail exactly how to get the results you want from your computer. An accompanying audio CD demonstrates concepts used throughout the book, making this title an absolute must-have for anyone using their computer for hard disk recording, MIDI, composing or orchestrating!

For the past twenty years, Brent Edstrom has utilized music technology as an integral part of an active career as a performer, composer, arranger, transcriber, and music synthesist. Highlights of industry work include hundreds of arrangements and transcriptions for the Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, music for industrial films and regional television, arrangements for symphony orchestra, and session work for a wide variety of recording projects. In the realm of traditional composition, his pieces have been featured at universities and major festivals such as the International Trumpet Guild. His theoretical work includes an ongoing publishing project on the topic of music notation algorithms in C++. Edstrom currently works as a freelance arranger for the Hal Leonard Corporation and coordinates the music theory and composition program at Whitworth College.