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Boulanger and Lazzarini "The Audio Programming Book" - great if you want to start working straight away in C

Boulanger - "The Csound Book" (another classic language I still use today)

Greenbaum and Barzel - "Audio Anecdotes". A fascinating series of 3 volumes with all sorts of wisdom on FX design, studio systems and composition

Wilson, Cottle and Collins - "The Supercollider Book". In the style of The Csound Book, but with SC.

Loy - "Musicmathics". A rare and much under-rated two volume set on the equations behind audio DSP

Bilbao - "Numerical Sound Synthesis". A hard but rewarding journey to understanding audio physics as linear diff systems and implementing them efficiently in C, Goes well with Perry Cook's stuff.

Benson - "Music a mathematical offering" Very unusual book that analyses many subjects in music physics. Equations but no code.

Miranda "Computer Sound Design". More about music synthesis than "sound design" imho, but has some interesting fringe methods like cellular autonoma and genetic algorithms.



>Boulanger - "The Csound Book"

Probably the gold standard for such books, wish all the audio DSLs had a book of such quality. Between it and The Computer Music Tutorial Csound is ahead of the rest when it comes to books.

Edit: Was thinking The Computer Music Tutorial was filled with Csound examples but on second thought I don't think it actually is. Been awhile since I last browsed it.


No, The Computer Music Tutorial doesn't have any code as far as I remember. I know there is a second edition but not sure what is new in there.

The Csound book is so great though. It would be nice if the orc/sco on the CD that came with it were available. I have the book still but the CD is long gone and so is owning a CD rom drive.

I just came back to csound recently and I think it has taken me about 25 years to actually like the sco. If one is use to a piano roll/DAW, the sco seems utterly ridiculous.

The csound manual now though actually has good working examples too. If I remember, that was not the case when the csound book came out and part of what made it so great too.


>I have the book still but the CD is long gone and so is owning a CD rom drive.

https://github.com/SamKomesarook/The-Csound-Book


Awesome. The book is such a bargain used then on Amazon with this.




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