Rick Snoman is a music producer, sound designer and Apple-approved mastering engineer, and the owner of Altar Studios. He has designed sounds for numerous synthesisers and sample libraries used by producers worldwide, and is the author of the award-winning Dance Music Manual, widely regarded as the definitive textbook on electronic music production. He delivered a keynote at NAMM in Los Angeles and, as co-chair of Electronic Dance Music for the Audio Engineering Society, has presented on EDM production and remixing in New York, Los Angeles and Dublin.