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Title: How MIDI Works - 6th Edition by Peter Lawrence Alexander ISBN: 0-634-02083-8 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Grammatical Errors Galore
Comment: The author seems to have meant well but, how is one supposed to take him serious when there are so many blatant grammatical errors? Words are used incorrectly and spelled wrong. Use a spell checker for crying out loud! As mentioned previously, there is good information but put together poorly. He does go on and on about gigastudio but, in his defense, it is the future of the industry.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not Bad, Not Great
Comment: This book was "OK" at best. Like others have mentioned, it is kind of organized oddly as MIDI isn't even mentioned until a third of the way through. The title is semi-misleading because it strays from MIDI quite a bit from time to time to explain other things. And also as someone mentioned, he has a bad tendency to mention terms and concepts well before he actually explains them.
Also, it's already seriously outdated as far as system specs, software, etc...
One more complaint: This book is full of blatant advertisments for the author's other business ventures as well as the music school where he teaches, and also for Gigasampler/Studio which is mentioned SEVERAL (I mean SEVERAL) times in every chapter and shown in nearly all diagrams, and even goes as far as having an entire chapter dedicated to Gigasampler/Studio. If you were a complete newbie reading this, you would be convinced that having Gigasampler was the only way you could make music on your computer.
But, I'd say that the information is mostly straight forward, easy to understand and finally when it gets into actually talking about MIDI, has some good info. This book had potential, but the little things really add up to make it sub-par in my opinion.
I'd give it 2.5 stars if I had the option.
Rating: 1
Summary: Lots of Good Material, but Disorganized
Comment: This book seems to cover most of the right topics for explaining how MIDI works. However, I find the organization of the book very confusing and the advertised "plain English" missing. Where was the editor when this book was being written? Just a little more organization and better writing clarity could have made a huge difference.
The title of the book is "How MIDI Works" but the first three chapters barely mention MIDI as the system requirements of computers are explained. Eventually, when we get to Chapter 4, we see a discussion of "Multiport MIDI Devices". However, even at this point, MIDI has not even been defined. Only when we get to Chapter 9 do we start to see a definition and a real discussion of the MIDI interface and its data and control formats. However, I still have not found a concise summary of the MIDI format as it is sprinkled throughout the book but never really summarized. I would expect a book with this title to function well as a reference source for MIDI information. I looked for MIDI in the index but found there is no index!
It appears that the title of the book should have been "How to Build a PC-based Recording Studio" since that is what the book actually attempts to deliver. MIDI is just one technology that gets discussed among all the other ins and outs of putting together a PC-based audio system. I'll need to look elsewhere for a good reference on MIDI.
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Title: Basic MIDI by Paul White ISBN: 1860742629 Publisher: Sanctuary Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Midi for the Professional by Paul Lehrman, Tim Tully ISBN: 0825613744 Publisher: Music Sales Corp Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Midi Companion by Jeffrey Rona, Scott R. Wilkinson, Jeff Rona ISBN: 0793530776 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The MIDI Manual, Second Edition by David Miles Huber ISBN: 0240803302 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Basic Home Studio Design by Paul White ISBN: 1860742726 Publisher: Sanctuary Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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