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Getting into music production with Quick Starts

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Wizoo and Music Sales Quick Starts introduce a series of books aimed at absolute beginners. The illustrated books of 50 pages written by internationally known authors and are designed to help musicians get a handle on music topics as swiftly and easily as possible. All Quick Starts are written in concise, easy-to-understand language and include CD-ROMs that provide hands-on-experience. Wuick Start titorials for absolute beginners

Reason (by Craig Anderton)

The absolute beginner's guide to producing great music with this innovative software. Propellerheads Software's Reason is a complete electronic music studio. This book, along with the companion CD-Rom packed with examples and tutorials, gets you making music almost as soon as you get the program out of the box. The CD-Rom includes a Reason trial version, video tutorials, learn-by-doing examples, and free drum loops.

Sonar (by Craig Anderton)

Cakewalk's SONAR represents a new generation of sequencers, and a new way to work with digital audio and MIDI. This book, along with the companion CD-ROM, demystifies SONAR's basic operation so you can get up and running fast. The CD-ROM features a fully functional Sonar trial version, video tutorials, learn-by-doing examples, free drum loops, and a new Craig Anderton song produced in Sonar.

Audio in Cubase VST (by Mark Wherry)

The absolute beginner's guide to recording, arranging and mixing your music assumes no previous Cubase knowledge and starts from scratch. New Cubase users daunted by the apparent size and complexity of the program and those considering buying Cubase would appreciate this tutorial. The CD-ROM includes a fully functional Cubase VST 5 demo, example songs and a collection of freeware plug-ins for MacOS and Windows. For all Cubase 5 versions, MacOS and Windows 95 or higher.

CD Burning (by Paul Sellars)

The absolute beginner's guide to MP3. Learn how to encode audio and publish your songs on the Internet. Almost every new desktop computer is sold with a CD-RW drive and people are discovering the advantages of using inexpensive, durable CD-Rs and CD-RWs to store their data and music. This book explains how CDs, CD-Rs and CD-RWs work, and will show you how to use your computer and a couple of well-chosen pieces of software to back-up and store valuable data, and create audio CD-Rs that can be played in any standard hi-fi CD player. Including a CD-ROM featuring Windows and MacOS demo software for optimizing audio and burning CDs.

Home Recording (by Ingo Raven)

This starter's guide to setting up and making the most of your own home provides an introduction to the working methods. The book describes the equipment that makes up a studio and explains how to use it. Turning the spotlight on functions and features, it will help you master and make the most of the sound-sculpting tools at your disposal. The CD-Rom features audio examples, demo song and a Cubase VST 5 demo for MacOS/Windows.

Other Quick Starts are MIDI by Reinhard Schmitz , a tutorial to understanding and making music with MIDI, and Publishing Music Online by Paul Sellars, a guide to MP3 and to encoding audio and publishing songs on the Internet.
All Quick Starts feature a CD-ROM, 50 pages in US letter format and are sold at a retail price of $19.95 per volume.

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