Dave Phillips is an expert Linux programmer and a professionally performing musician who draws upon his special expertise and experience to explain the basics of digital sound and Linux-specific software/hardware issues in The Book Of Linux Music & Sound. Phillips covers the general Linux audio set-up, basic and advanced system use, as well as the broad range of Linux sound and music applications. Readers will learn how to record, mix, and add effects to music tracks; work with MOD, MIDI, and MP3 files; use hard disk multi-track recording; explore software sound synthesis programs like Csound; share sound resources over a network or broadcast live over the Internet; use realtime synthesizers; and produce high quality scores with music notation programs. An accompanying CD-ROM includes over one hundred MIDI applications, including digital audio and music notation software, games, and utilities. The Book Of Linux Music & Sound is a "must" for all Linux users wanting to incorporate sound and create music, and take full advantage of their computer's manifold capabilities in the process.