Power Tools for Studio One 2: Reference Books

Apple's Logic 9 is the most comprehensive and complete music production software package on the market today. Logic 9 Studio comes with an impressive array of software instruments plug-ins synthesizers applications and more while the slimmed-down Logic 9 Express delivers an amazing amount of power with many of the same plug-ins and a nearly identical digital audio and MIDI workstation production application. Power Tools for Logic 9 unlocks Logic's immense capabilities to help you achieve amazing results for your audio and music productions with techniques you won't find in beginner-level books or videos. Rick Silva teaches you powerful ways to use both Studio and Express giving you easy-to-understand strategies for using the complex production tools built into Logic. You'll tap into known features in ways you never thought of before while learning to use new features to produce spectacular audio recordings. Go beyond beginner with Power Tools for Logic 9 ! DVD-ROM included with new music-making strategies demonstrated in videos and session files.

Apple's Logic 8 has been completely redesigned from the ground up making this latest version of the feature-packed digital audio workstation application simply the best it's ever been. Forget what you know about previous versions Apple's Logic 8 Pro Studio and Express are all new and full of enhancements across the board. This new DVD from BCI Media and Hal Leonard Logic 8: Beginner Level explores all of the features of Logic 8 so that no matter which edition you choose you'll be able to use the powerful tools it provides to start making your music sound incredible! You'll learn how to quickly navigate the newly designed single-window interface and how Logic8's new Multitake Management and Quick Swipe Comping dramatically streamline the overdub process. Learn to master the powerful new audio editing features such as snap-to-transient and graphical time stretching and sample accurate editing in the Arrange window while learning to work faster and with greater precision. You'll even learn all about end-to-end surround production features in Logic 8 including multichannel tracks busses and support for True Surround software instruments and effects. This DVD will familiarize you with the features of Logic 8 Express while introducing you to even more features from the massive Logic 8 Pro Studio package.

Understanding the Psychology Relationships and Technology in Recording and Live Performance-To be a great singer talent and technique are obviously important as are having excellent songs and being able to move an audience. But there's more to it than that including two critical skills that are rarely if ever addressed in vocal training: managing the technology on stage and in the studio and interacting with the people who run it. No matter how fantastic your voice is or how much money is behind you if you don't know how to work with performing and recording technology you're in for a tough ride. Countless phenomenal singers stagnate professionally and even leave the business because they can't figure out how to deliver when using studio headphones and stagemonitors or how to communicate their needs to producers and engineers. And many less-capable singers get ahead because they can. The Art of Singing on Stage and in the Studio is the only book that comprehensively addresses these critical issues in an easy-to-read accessible style. Starting with a discussion of the evolution of technology and the voice in our culture it also explores the root causes of anxiety-related performance issues and more importantly how to overcome them. Singers performers producers and engineers will all come away from this book more knowledgeable about the origins of their fields empowered in the tools of their trade and clearer on how to best communicate with one another.

Pro Tools is Avid's powerful DAW platform and it's everywhere from home studios and laptops to the biggest studios and tracking sessions in the world. Whether you're new to Pro Tools or a veteran user you'll find the latestrelease of PT9 to be a powerful production system and a dramatic departure from previous versions. Tracking Vocals and Instruments with Pro Tools is an indispensable guide to getting the most out of your music and your PTrig. Multiplatinum engineer/producer Glenn Lorbecki shows you step by step how to record vocals and a wide array of musical instruments.You will learn production and editing techniques that will improve the sound of yourrecordings and simplify mixing. Real-world examples show how expert engineers use PT to create stunning recordings.This is the most potent version of Pro Tools yet and given its high-tech enhancements in connectivity functionality and session portability users need a practical guide to get up and running quickly and efficiently. The Quick Pro Series cuts to the chase and gives you the best of Pro Tools at your fingertips with plenty ofsessions audio examples and video assistance to guide you along the way.