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is this good for someone with no music knowledge but loves programming and want to learn about audio and sound generation?


This is primarily about analysis of music/sound, and almost nothing about sound synthesis. But apart from that, yes.


What are good resources for sound synthesis?

A while ago I started a repository, in which I wrote code to write a riff-wave file with a sine wave in it. My idea is: "All sound is, is waves. Incredibly many overlapping waves maybe, but waves. Using functions I should be able to implement things like fade-in, fade-out, increase frequency, etc, that I usually do using Audacity. And then I should be able to make small command line tools out of those and do fun effects on wave files."

Perhaps my thoughts are naive, as I have no background in sound/music theory and probably lack some fundamental mathematics for sound, but: What would be a good book to get more into this sound synthesis stuff, as a software engineer?


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