Cloud-Based Music Production: Sampling, Synthesis, and Hip-Hop by Matthew T. Shelvock from Focal Press investigates how hip-hop producers make music using cloud-based music production libraries. This book reveals how those services impact music production en masse.
0.1 Defining Music Production
0.2 CBMP Services
0.3 Sound-Tagging and Search Filters
0.4 Project Backup and Sharing
0.5 Access to Professional Sounds
0.6 Free Tools/Rent-to-Own
0.7 Community, Contests, and Collaboration
0.8 Chapter Outline
Chapter 1: Understanding Samples, Synthesis, Editing, and Mixing
1.1 Virtual Performance: Performing Samples, Performing Synthesis
1.1.1 Performance Inputs: Sample Triggering, Synthesis, and MIDI
1.1.2 Point and Click Editing
1.2 Creating Hip Hop Sounds: Sampling
1.2.1 Technological Constraints, Sample Arrangement, and Sample Phrasing
1.2.2 Types of Samples: One Shots and Continuous Samples
1.2.3 Timbre and Arrangement
1.2.4 Categorizing Samples: Instrument Families as Conceptual Groups in Sample Arrangement
1.3 Synthesizers
1.3.1 Synthesizer Types
1.3.2 Synths in Modern Hip Hop
Chapter 2: Making Music Using CBMP Resources
2.1 Making Music from Samples
2.2 Drums, Percussion, Bass
2.2.1 Creating Drum and Percussion Tracks with One Shots: Timbral Selection and Arrangement
2.2.2 Rhythmic Congruence in Sampling: Using Continuous Samples for Additional Percussion
2.2.3 Hip Hop Microrhythm: Creating Intentional Rhythmic Incongruence
2.3 Bass
2.4 Melodic Sounds
2.4.1 Categorizing Short-to-Medium Length Melodic Samples: ADSR Profiles
2.4.2 Arranging Long Duration Melodic Samples
2.4.3 Arranging Commonly Used Short- to Medium Duration Melodic Sounds
2.5 Textures, Atmosphere, and Harmony
2.5.1 Ready-Made and Cloud-Based Textures and Atmospheric Samples
2.5.2 Custom Atmospheres and Textures
Chapter 3: The Mix — Conditioning Musical Materials on Records
3.1 What is Mixing?
3.2 Establishing Genre through Material Means
3.3 Spectral Distribution
3.4 Dynamic Contours
3.5 Stereo Configuration
3.6 Ambient Design
3.7 Noise, Distortion, Saturation, and Enhancement
Chapter 4: Hearing for Your Audience — Beat Production as a Psychoacoustic Art
4.1 Sonic Realism and The Canvas of Psychophysiology
4.2 Mixing Beats: Constructing Past Tense Aural Narratives
4.3 Painting on the Psychoacoustic Canvas: Applying Gestalt Theory to Mixing Technique
4.4 What is Gestalt Theory?
4.5 Auditory Stream Segregation and the Law of Disjoint Allocation
4.6 Laws of Similarity and Common Fate: Location, Timbre, and Signal Routing
4.7 The Figure-Ground Phenomenon: More Applications for Mix Buses
4.8 The Rule of Good Continuation: Parameter Automation and Low Frequency Oscillators
4.9 Chapter Summary
Chapter 5: Case Studies in CBMP
Case Study 1: "melancholy" by kingmobb (2019)
Case Study 2: "fayth" by kingmobb (2019)
Case Study 3: "Dxn’t Want U" by kingmobb, from KNGMXBB II (2017)
Conclusions