Digital and Laptop Music

On this new version of the traditional textual content on the evolution of digital music, Peter Manning extends the definitive account of the medium from its start to incorporate key developments from the daybreak of the twenty first century to the current day. The scope of the numerous developments which have taken place because the late Nineties are thought of in a collection of recent and up to date chapters, together with matters akin to the event of the digital audio workstation, laptop computer music, the Web, and the emergence of recent efficiency interfaces. Emphasizing the useful traits of rising applied sciences and their affect on the inventive growth of the medium, Manning covers key developments in each business and the non-commercial sectors to supply readers with probably the most complete useful resource accessible on the evolution of this ever-expanding space of creativity.