Product Description

In this Apple-certified guide, author David Dvorin demonstrates the powerful advanced features in Logic Pro that have led many of the world's top producers, composers, and engineers to make this program the centerpiece of their music studios. Starting with advanced set-up in the brand-new interface in Logic Pro 8, he teaches you important skills like music production and editing, notation, and scoring to picture. Along the way, he reveals real-world techniques for mixing, editing, and producing, and shares professional secrets for streamlining production workflows and constructing a mix to meet the most exacting standards. Experienced Logic users and newcomers alike will find invaluable methods for manipulating tempo and pitch, fine-tuning audio and MIDI tracks, managing signal flow, and getting the most out of Logic's revolutionary audio instruments. A companion DVD includes the lesson and media files needed to complete the book's exercises, plus free trial Logic plug-ins from leading manufacturers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80944 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 552 pages

From the Back Cover
In this Apple-certified guide, author David Dvorin demonstrates the powerful advanced features in Logic Pro that have led many of the world's top producers, composers, and engineers to make this program the centerpiece of their music studios. Starting with advanced set-up in the brand-new interface in Logic Pro 8, he teaches you important skills like music production and editing, notation, and scoring to picture. Along the way, he reveals real-world techniques for mixing, editing, and producing, and shares professional secrets for streamlining production workflows and constructing a mix to meet the most exacting standards. Experienced Logic users and newcomers alike will find invaluable methods for manipulating tempo and pitch, fine-tuning audio and MIDI tracks, managing signal flow, and getting the most out of Logic's revolutionary audio instruments. A companion DVD includes the lesson and media files needed to complete the book's exercises, plus free trial Logic plug-ins from leading manufacturers.

About the Author
David Dvorin is an Emmy-nominated composer, arranger, performer, and music producer. He has composed music for films, CD-ROM, and television projects, and has worked with the Kronos Quartet and renowned composer Terry Riley. He is currently composing for concert works. His latest CD release, With(in)communicado, has received critical acclaim and international airplay. In addition to his musical activities, David helped develop the education market for eMagic, Inc. (the original developer of Logic) and Apple Computer. A frequent presenter at music technology conferences, David is a music professor at Sierra College in Northern California.

Customer Reviews

A perfect introduction to Logic
This is a great book - beautifully produced (it's great to have colour pictures) and very well written - no padding, just straight into working on Logic projects. I've just switched from Cubase and wanted to get going with Logic quickly, and can't recommend this book highly enough.

Advanced Logic Pro 8 Explained
If you want to get to grips with using the advanced features of Logic Pro 8 than this is the book for you. To get the most out of it you should have a good basic knowledge of Logic Pro 8 or have read "Logic Pro 8 and Logic Express 8" by David Nahmani which is a companion to this book and one of the very excellent Apple Pro Training series. The tutorial approach in this book is excellent and right from the word go you're making music. The book is clear and concise from beginning to end. The tutorials are thorough without a step missed out and given to you in bite sized pieces so you never feel lost or overwhelmed. The numerous screen shots also act as a further guide to help you along. At the end of every chapter is a lesson review, a set of questions and answers, that nicely summarizes the key points of the lesson. The tutorials themselves come on a disc which you download onto your computer and open in Logic Pro 8. This is one of those books that you'll want to keep in your audio library as a valuable reference tool.

GREAT!!!
Got it today, delivery was quick! got a email notifying me of the price cut, had to jump on this great deal!!!

recommended to anyone who is intersted in making music with one of this industry standard software!!!