posted 19 April 2006 05:37            

Would be very interested if anyone knows of some math online / eBook resources appropriate for kyma, sound and music creation. my studies of biology and chemistry didn't involve complicated math. Sometimes I wish I'd studied Algebra instead of Algae!! ;-)

posted 19 April 2006 08:34            

Was there a specific area that you were interested in? (e.g. signal proceessing? logic? complex systems? algebraic algae?;-)

posted 20 April 2006 04:58            

I was hoping to understand the workings of some of the DSP & Acoustics texts I have on my bookshelf - my weak math is really an obstacle to connecting the abstract of the equations to the waves coming of my speakers.

My goal would be to go from A) I like this Kyma Sound, how can I modify it to B) I want this sound, the required Kyma structure would be this.

Having a browse through the site now - just what I was looking for!
(and it's in book form too! $129 phew!) Thanks a lot :-)

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posted 20 April 2006 18:57            

I'm in the same boat as you. This question came up on the Max/MSP list (I think it was) awhile ago, and a couple of people recommended "Engineering Mathematics" by K.A. Stroud. I filed the recommendation away for future reference - I still haven't gotten it (still hoping to get through the Smalltalk books I recently picked up!).

It may not cover all of the topics that Mathworld does (I think it's supposed to be for a first year engineering course), but it goes step by step, which I need.

It gets good reviews on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0831131527/ref=wl_it_dp/102-9097848-8336919?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=2B1PDWTA5JIM0&coliid=I3KG1WR7OYRVBA&v=glance&n=283155

posted 28 April 2006 14:50            

You can download the entire book at no charge and the math is very accessible.