Sampling, one of the staples of modern music production, is the process of taking periodic samples of an audio waveform and transforming these sampled signal levels into a representative stream of... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This book is a good introduction to the inner workings of many soft samplers and synths. There's enough details to get you beyond just running the presets of many instruments. The book spends a lot of time covering sampler library construction, in a variety of formats. As opposed to the previous reviewer, most of us who are involved in electronic music will want to learn how to do this feat. There's a good-sized chapter on Kontakt, and a few chapters on other synths - including a way-too-short chapter on the Moog Modular.
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