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Did anyone here had a look at this book ?
Just found it by accident a few days ago, and it does look rather well designed.

It's basically about all the different kinds of interfaces we have on our electronic instruments.
The author interviewed some of the more well known electronic instrument builders.
The book celebrates the art and science of interface design in electronic music by exploring the functional, artistic, philosophical, and aesthetic worlds within the mysterious link between player and machine.

45 exclusive interviews with artists, designers, and makers:

Including Imogen Heap, Dorit Chrysler, Suzanne Ciani, Richard Devine, DiViNCi, Laura Escudé, Ean Golden, Axel Hartmann, Larry Heard, Roger Linn, Keith McMillen, Moldover, Jordan Rudess, Dave Smith, Tatsuya Takahashi, and others, along with well-known music industry brands like Ableton, Arturia, DJ TechTools, Elektron, Korg, Make Noise, monome, Moog, Native Instruments, Novation, Propellerhead, Roland, Teenage Engineering, and Yamaha.

Dive into the ideas behind music gear like synthesizers, drum machines, sequencers, DJ equipment, DAWs, and iOS apps. Explore sections on design principles, control elements, visualization of sound, and concepts such as grids, MPC, multitouch, modular, and much more. PUSH TURN MOVE is the very first book of its kind
In any case, it looks like the ultimate gear-porn book :lol:
but I'm just wondering if it really does dig in properly on the subject of the interfaces.

https://www.pushturnmove.com
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Looks very interesting! Xmas is coming and this is definitely going on the list :)

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Is it just pictures of synths & stuff?

I don't really understand what this adds to anything. Id really need to look at It to make a judgement.

Would be interested to hear a review of it.
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it's supposed to discuss all the different interfaces and talking with quite a few known synth designers.
if it's just gear porn, I'm not gonna pay that amount of cash.
But yeah, I'm trying to find out if anyone bought it to hear more details than the sales talk.
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Aye.. maybe I'm just a lot more frugal with my money these days ( or possibly its the season - gulp, Christmas!!).. but it resembles a Computer Music Special Edition with my casual glance.

Don't want to hate on it without knowing more.. but it looks like the buyer is paying for adverts? Or is that too harsh? ;)
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Looks like any other overpriced coffee table book published by Taschen.

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I think it looks decent after flicking through the website and reading the author's bacķground.
Surprised it hasn't been done before now ..

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Monreal wrote:Looks like any other overpriced coffee table book published by Taschen.
I'd say this is pretty spot on. I backed the project on Kickstarter so I got mine a few weeks back. Haven't had the time to read it yet, just flicked through it. Content is very shallow so if you're looking for in depth writing on design decisions this def is not for you.. however - as a rather large coaster I'd say it's a 7/10.

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good, thx for the info. Was looking for someone who had bought it.
So no worth the hefty price-tag ?
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Well, different strokes for different folks I guess.. do you want a glossy coffee table book on electronic music interfaces with not much content or are you genuinely interested in interface design and want to read up on it? Me, I thought it was a fun idea for a book, knowing I hardly would read it very thoroughly, clicked purchase and that was that, not much thought went into that decision :lol:

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Sounds dissappointing. How the fuck do you put nearly 400 pages in a book and not *really* get into the subject?! Oh well ..

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NAO wrote:Content is very shallow so if you're looking for in depth writing on design decisions this def is not for you.. however - as a rather large coaster I'd say it's a 7/10.
Ha! This review gets an 8 on a scale of zero to scathing.

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intrusav wrote:Sounds dissappointing. How the fuck do you put nearly 400 pages in a book and not *really* get into the subject?! Oh well ..
with a lot of glossy pics, I guess ??
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I kinda like the idea of a book that actually goes deep into hardware design from a user interface/human factors/psychology type perspective, I'm assuming this isn't it though?

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I suppose not,
because that's exactly the type of question that I'm asking about this book.
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Looks like an interesting find! Might have to put this on my "to buy" list, alongside that Ableton production book that came out a year or so ago (I have a PDF version of it, but would love a physical copy of it, still). Cheers for the recommendation!

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SFBM wrote:Looks like an interesting find! Might have to put this on my "to buy" list, alongside that Ableton production book that came out a year or so ago (I have a PDF version of it, but would love a physical copy of it, still). Cheers for the recommendation!
which Ableton product book ?
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I've not seen the book in real life but the interface of instruments is quite a import aspect of liking (and sometimes licking :D) or ditching a instrument.
I guess the book will be some kind of history guideline of interfaces starting from fully loaded one function per knob synths to programming with a value slider synths with all kind of variatons like desktop and rack synths ... and at the end the complete downfall with midget instrument :mrgreen:.

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WOLF! wrote:I've not seen the book in real life but the interface of instruments is quite a import aspect of liking (and sometimes licking :D)
I recently saw some VICE documentary where this guy interviewed some young XTC-producers in the UK.
Since they were wearing masks during the interview,
and wearing gloves because they were making pills,
and one guy had a very recognizable ring tone,
he had to lick his phone to turn it off...
:lol:
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