Sound Design Methods

[PeterHanes]

@Alinka

I feel completely stuck with my current tool arsenal. I want to create different types of sounds and not sure if I need to look at other software, other sound packs, or something else (Komplete? Ableton?).

Previous forum discussions on sound design often include recommendations for the book “Designing Sound” by Andy Farnell:

Computer Programming Sound?

DivKid suggested the book Designing Sound by Andy Farnell on the most recent Sonic Talk #522. The book according to DivKid goes through the basic mathematics and algorithms of sound creation. The algorithms are all presented for the Pure Data graphical programming environment, which you can get for free. Pure Data is pretty close to Max and Max for Live so you’ll learn some of that with this too. There is a seven chapter downloadable excerpt from the book to get started, also free: Al th…