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# Meta-Production
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Thoughts on the Process of Producing Electronic Music
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This is my first attempt at writing and self-publishing books, alongside [Of Mind And Movement](https://of-mind-and-movement.allsup.co/). There is a print edition available on Amazon, and an eBook edition available from the Kindle Store. As a first attempt, I decided to avoid the complexity of marketing more widely, such as also publishing with Ingram Spark, and the hassle of acquiring and using my own ISBN's. Perhaps in future I'll take on the additional tasks of doing so, but it would have presented in impediment to just getting these books out.

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There are many tutorials, and many books, on the production of electronic music. Most of the time these tell you how to program a synth patch, or how to arrange a track, or how to EQ a kick drum. But few of these do what is here termed meta-production: the thinking about your overall strategy for approaching learning music production, about the attitudes to take, and about optimising your workflow.

What is meant by meta-production? The difference in attitude between production and meta-production is the primary focus. When producing, the recording you get at the end is the product, and the production process is a means to achieving that end. With meta-production, the process and workflow are the product, and the recordings produced are side-effects of the process of analysing, refining, and training your workflow and production processes. The hope is that, by optimising how you produce, when you then get back to producing proper, with the end products being the primary aim, you'll produce that bit more efficiently and effectively.
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## Where To Buy
[Links To Buy](Buy)

## AI
No AI of any kind was used in the production of the *content* of the book. The book was written in \(\LaTeX\), a language I learned back when I was doing my Ph.D. studies in mathematics. I *did* use Gemini's help in writing the \(\LaTeX\) preamble (stuff like setting up page formatting and finding the right packages to use for various tasks) along with a answering a few questions like the usual order of frontmatter sections. The background image for this wiki was generated by Gemini.

## Errata
Post submission, a few typos slipped the net. Writing the manuscript in \(\LaTeX\) does come with some issues since there is no built-in spelling or grammar checker. Anyway, the few errors that have come to light are [listed here in the errata](Errata).