sounds. Section 4, “Product Applications and the Future”, is a
slightly fuzzy snapshot of the electronic music field of the mid 1980’s.
The first edition of this book helped me a great deal when I was starting to think seriously about writing musical software a few years ago. I recommend it to people who want to understand or develop musical hardware or software. I couldn’t read the whole thing, parts of it were too hardware-tech oriented. Other parts were very valuable to me, especially the parts about digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion.