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Using Logic Pro Synthesizers

Using Logic Pro's Synthesizers explores the synthesizers included in Apple's best-selling music composition program, Apple Logic Pro 8. No other book focuses exclusively on the software instruments of Logic Pro. The book explains what each synthesizer sounds like, how it operates, and how to achieve the sonic results you want. It picks up where the user manual leaves off, giving users practical, sound-oriented advice on how to get the most out of each instrument.

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Pro Tools 101: An Introduction to Pro Tools 11

PRO TOOLS 101 AN INTRODUCTION TO PRO TOOLS 11 takes a comprehensive approach to learning the fundamentals of Pro Tools systems. Now updated for Pro Tools 11 software, this new edition from the definitive authority on Pro Tools covers everything you need to know to complete a Pro Tools project. Learn to build sessions that include multitrack recordings of live instruments, MIDI sequences, and virtual instruments. Through hands-on tutorials, develop essential techniques for recording, editing, and mixing. The included DVD-ROM provides media files and Pro Tools sessions to accompany the exercises and projects in the text. PRO TOOLS 101 AN INTRODUCTION TO PRO TOOLS 11 is the first of two courses designed to prepare users for the Avid Pro Tools 11 Certified User exam. The second course, Pro Tools 110: Pro Tools Production I, is available exclusively through Avid Learning Partners.

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Going Pro with Reason 6.5

GOING PRO WITH REASON 6.5 is an expert level book that addresses the needs of the professional Reason user. This book picks up where the manual leaves off, offering concise, workflow-oriented tutorials on setting up complex productions and workflows for both song creation and producing tracks. Whether you are preparing to compose or produce, and whether you will be in studio or live environments, this valuable resource holds the keys to taking your knowledge to the next level.

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Guitar Tone: Pursuing the Ultimate Guitar Sound

"Great tone" is a combination of many things–electronic, acoustic, musical, physical, emotional, and cerebral. Each player assembles and manipulates those components into a special blend, creating his own unique sonic stew. So how do we get great tone? The answer for most of us is a lifetime of pursuit that is at once equal parts joyous and frustrating, but always rewarding. A big part of succeeding in that pursuit is having an understanding of what goes into making great tone.

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Ann Ingalls, Bright Connections Media, "J Is for Jazz"

Winner 2015 Annual American Graphic Design Award! The perfect way to introduce children to a truly American art form, and a work of art in its own right, J Is for Jazz is the cat's pajamas for all readers-little finger zingers through grown-up cats!

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Academy.FM How To Network With DJ’s and Artists PDF

How To Network With DJ’s & Artists

Understanding how to network is crucial in developing your personal network of producers and DJs. In this video, Shanahan introduces the course and explains what he’ll be covering, and touches upon the basics of networking.

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Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings by Steve Sullivan

From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters.

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Cengage - Logic Pro X Power 2015 Retail eBook-BitBook

Logic Pro X Power!: The Comprehensive Guide LOGIC PRO X POWER!: THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE is a thoroughly updated edition of this popular guide to Apple Inc.'s flagship software for computer music production, Logic Pro X. The most complete guide to Logic Pro X available, this book is both an introduction and reference to Logic's essential features. All the issues and questions you're likely to encounter while making music with Logic are covered simply and thoroughly. In addition, you'll learn why Logic works the way it does-so instead of just reproducing steps mechanically, you'll understand what you're doing, leading you to true expertise and creativity with Logic Pro X. No matter where you are on the spectrum of Logic know-how, this is the book for you. If you're a beginner, you will benefit from the clear, step-by-step introductions to what Logic Pro X can do. More advanced users will find LOGIC PRO X POWER! an indispensable reference-the go-to resource covering all of the software's features and functions. Build your Logic Pro expertise with LOGIC PRO X POWER!: THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE.

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Cengage - Reason 7 Power 2014 Retail eBook-BitBook

The Reason debut in 2000 heralded wide-sweeping changes in the world of electronic music. Reason was the very first music-software platform that behaved just like hardware. Since then, Reason has grown considerably. In addition to adding support for many more devices--from Propellerhead, the creators of Reason, as well as from respected third-party companies such as Korg, Cakewalk, and others--and a truly professional mixing board, Reason has developed into a complete "studio" that looks and sounds like hardware--but is all software. This book covers the most recent version of Reason, Reason 7. This version adds the polish. In Reason 7, everything has been refined, including the way that you get around the software and even the way you edit audio. This book introduces these Reason 7 refinements in addition to covering everything that Reason's always done. If you're new to Reason, this book will get you up to speed. You'll learn all about the classic devices stored within the giant virtual studio that is Reason. If you're an experienced Reason user, you'll be happy, too. This book covers all the new features found in Reason 7.

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Cengage - Recording Drums 2014 Retail eBook-BitBook

Recording great drum sounds is one of the most challenging tasks facing any drummer, audio engineer, or music producer. Capturing the variety, nuance, and excitement of the drum kit and other percussion instruments is part art, part science, and part creative experimentation--and there's a lot more to it than simply setting up a mic and hitting the Record button. In this comprehensive book, recording engineer/producer/mixer Mike Major leads you through the sometimes complex and often misunderstood art of recording drums. Along the way, you'll cover all the ins and outs, including establishing the drums' role in the song, preparing the drum kit (and the room) for recording, choosing microphones and getting sounds, and tracking, overdubbing, editing, and choosing the final take. Not only will you find plenty of tips and techniques to help your recordings sound better than ever, you'll also be inspired to examine the philosophies and thought processes that go into creating and capturing drum sounds that are unique, interesting, and powerful. With plenty of helpful illustrations and sample setups, and all of the files you need on the companion website, RECORDING DRUMS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE puts you on the fast track to great drum sounds.

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Cengage - Scoring With Logic Pro 2013 Retail eBook-BitBook

Apple's Logic Pro is one of today's most popular digital audio workstations (DAW). Perhaps the most professional DAW on the market for composers, Logic can be used to compose anything from a symphony to a television jingle and includes complete tools for scoring, recording, and processing music and audio. Despite Logic's popularity as a composition tool, its Score Editor can be one of the application's most challenging features to master. Scoring with Logic Pro offers concise and easy-to-follow tutorials to guide the reader in inputting, formatting, and printing music notation using Logic Pro's Score Editor. Whether you're a beginner or a long-time Logic Pro user just getting into composition, you'll be scoring like the pros in no time.

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Cengage Learning - Reason 6 Power 2012 Retail eBook-BitBook

The leading reference to Propellerhead's flagship virtual studio, Reason 6 Power! is an all-new edition, exploring and explaining the latest version of this popular, powerful music-making software. This book is the most thorough guide to Reason available, covering all the magic and fun that Reason is known for---from its synths, samplers, drums, and signal processors to its powerful and intuitive MIDI sequencer, audio recorder, and all the stunning new devices in Reason 6. If you're a beginner, you will benefit from the clear, step-by-step introductions to everything Reason can do. More advanced users will find this to be an indispensable reference---the go-to resource covering all of Reason's features and functions. Strengthen your Reason expertise with Reason 6 Power!

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Cengage Learning - Sibelius 7 Music Notation Essentials 2014 Retail eBook-BitBook

SIBELIUS 7 MUSIC NOTATION ESSENTIALS provides the most thorough introduction available to the fundamental operations of Sibelius 7 and lays the foundation for continuing studies at the more advanced levels. This book is built around five hands-on projects, including an introduction to the Sibelius 7 interface and basic editing operations; setting up a score and entering notes; importing MIDI, MusicXML, lyrics, and more; creating a worksheet; and scoring video. The learning method is tutorial-based, step-by-step, and visually compelling; the projects in the book are fully integrated with the accompanying tutorial videos and include many helpful screenshots and diagrams. On the companion website are 31 tutorial videos in which the author steps you through every key skill learned in each lesson. In addition, the accompanying CD provides you with all of the resources you need to complete the course in Sibelius, plus five extension projects. SIBELIUS 7 MUSIC NOTATION ESSENTIALS is the first crucial step in mastering Sibelius 7, the most popular music notation software in use today.

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Scarecrow Press - Music Production 2012 2nd Edition Retail eBook-BitBook

The guidance of a skilled music producer will always be a key factor in producing a great recording. In that sense, as Michael Zager points out in his second edition of Music Production: For Producers, Composer, Arrangers, and Students, the job of a music producer is analogous to that of a film director, polishing work product to its finest sheen. And this is no small matter in an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century.

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The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung

The vital, carefully crafted discussion on Wagner’s masterpiece, offering deep insight into both the work itself and profound perspective on certain key philosophical questions

Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger Scruton brings to it in this inspiring account.

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Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method by Mark Davis

The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz piano from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book! Topics include essential theory, chords and voicings, improvisation ideas, structure and forms, scales and modes, rhythm basics, interpreting a lead sheet, playing solos, and much more!

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THE 00INDIVIDUAL COUNTER-CULTURE COMPENDIUM 1960's and 1970's Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Volume 1 - The 1960s

This significant, insightful, entertaining, and educational Three Volume Compendium uses personally reviewed historic 1960s and 1970s Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Cultural events to reveal and reflect the spirit of the times; and was designed to be of beneficial use as:

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Parametric Time-Frequency Domain Spatial Audio

A comprehensive guide that addresses the theory and practice of spatial audio

This book provides readers with the principles and best practices in spatial audio signal processing. It describes how sound fields and their perceptual attributes are captured and analyzed within the time–frequency domain, how essential representation parameters are coded, and how such signals are efficiently reproduced for practical applications. The book is split into four parts starting with an overview of the fundamentals. It then goes on to explain the reproduction of spatial sound before offering an examination of signal–dependent spatial filtering. The book finishes with coverage of both current and future applications and the direction that spatial audio research is heading in.

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On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory

What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again?

Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece?

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Apress Linux Sound Programming 2017 Retail eBook

Program audio and sound for Linux using this practical, how-to guide. You will learn how to use DSPs, sampled audio, MIDI, karaoke, streaming audio, and more. Linux Sound Programming takes you through the layers of complexity involved in programming the Linux sound system. You’ll see the large variety of tools and approaches that apply to almost every aspect of sound. This ranges from audio codecs, to audio players, to audio support both within and outside of the Linux kernel.

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