The Byte book of computer music

Would-be musicologists and fugue fanciers take note! The BYTE Book of Computer Music combines the best computer music articles from past issues of BYTE Magazine with exciting new material-all written for the computer experimenter interested in this fascinating field. You will enjoy Hal Chamberlin's "A Sampling of Techniques for Computer Performance of Music," which shows how you can create four-part melodies on your computer. For the budget minded, "A $19 Music Interface" contains practical tutorial information-and organ fans will enjoy reading "Electronic Organ Chips for Use in Computer Music Synthesis.' New material includes "Polyphony Made Easy" and "A Terrain Reader:' The first describes a handy circuit that allows you to enter more than one note at a time into your computer from a musical keyboard. The "Terrain Reader" is a remarkable program that creates random music based on land terrain maps. Other articles range from flights of fancy about the reproductive systems of pianos to Fast Fouriertransform programs written in BASIC and 6800 machine language, multi-computer music systems, Walsh Functions, and much more. For the first time, material difficult to obtain has been collected into one convenient, easy to read book. An ardent do-it-yourselfer or armchair musicologist will find this book to be a useful addition to the library.