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Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques

by Rick Snoman · 2004

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This practical guide takes readers inside the making of dance music, explaining the equipment, software and methods that producers rely on. It covers the instruments and studio tools at the heart of the genre, showing how sounds are built, shaped and arranged into finished tracks. Practical exercises help readers apply each technique in their own work. A companion disc supplies audio examples in mp3 format, so the techniques described on the page can be heard as well as read about.

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