From Florian Anwander Sent Wed, Aug 1st 2018, 07:49
A co-musician of mine has the book, and I could have a look through it for two hours. I have to say, I did finally not buy it. The text is ok contentwise, but the overall book fails on the layout and the pictures. The running text is often broken up by several pages and by too many inserts. You get lost while reading it. You have the impression that the layouter wants to distract you from reading the book from start to end. (This seems to be something wide spread in new music-technical literature: An absolute negative example is Sylvia Masseys "Recording Unhinged", which to read drove me crazy) And about the pictures: If you do a book about design, then you should not picture it in the way of a 1980's tourist information fllyer. * many images are too small (use less but larger images). * many images which shall explain comparisons are not comparable with each other (if you want to compare how some UI-detail is solved on two devices, then you should not use a detail picture of one device and an overview-picture of the other device). * picture legends are missing or don't get to the point Maybe I am biased, as I am an author of two synth related books and have made the layout of many many issues of a special interest magazine and of technical books (not on synths). Summary: This looked to me like the typical crowdfunded home-made book. The physical quality is good but contentwise you wish they would have done it with an experienced editor. Florian -- http://www.florian-anwander.de