9780071435024

Summary

Here's the perfect book for musicians, producers, and DJs who want to take advantage of Mac OS X's extraordinary capabilities--without plowing through a pile of heavy-duty reading. The 10 Minutes or Less format gives impatient musicians, producers, DJs--even wannabes--instant answers on 200 frequently queried operations. Record, Sample, and Remix in 10 Minutes or Less delivers short-format answers on recording onto a home computer, isolating tracks, remixing, looping on your own or others' compositions, sequencing, sampling from multiple sources, creating instrumental tracks, adding effects, altering voices, and much more. Quick solutions to: * SELECTING the right hardware * RECORDING instruments and voice * EDITING digital audio * SEQUENCING and using Midi * SAMPLING from CDs, vinyl, TV, the real world, and more * MIXING AND REMIXING * MASTERING your finished product * COPYRIGHT do's and don'ts

Author Biography

Nate Tschetter (Los Angeles, CA) is an accomplished musician, producer, composer, sound designer and music programmer. He currently consults and programs for companies such as Disney, Bungie Software, Yamaha, and Interactive Technologies; produces and engineers bands at his own digital recording studio in Laguna Hills, CA; and performs frequently as a keyboard player on the Los Angeles music scene. He has contributed to various publications including Electronic Musician, Music & Computers, and Gig Magazine.

Sam Molineaux (Los Angeles, CA) is a journalist specializing in electronic music and media. She has contributed over 100 dance and electronic music reviews and varied celebrity features to the Los Angeles New Times, syndicated to San Francisco Weekly, Cleveland Scene, Dallas Observer, Phoenix New Times and Broward/Palm Beach New Times. She has written for Remix, Guitar Player, Keyboard (US), Keyboard (Japan), Electronic Musician, Drum!, Music Business, Installation Europe, Sound On Sound, Recording (US), Sound & Recording (Japan), MC2, Keyboard Player, Bassist, the BOSS User Group Magazine, the Roland User Group Magazine, Digidesign's newsletter Spotlight, and the musicians' Website Harmony Central.

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Chapter 2: Hardware Solutions

Chapter 3: Audio Software Solutions

Chapter 4: Computer Organization

Chapter 5: How to Record Audio Into Your Computer

Chapter 6: Digital Audio Editing

Chapter 7: Using Sequencing Software

Chapter 8: Sequencing Drums

Chapter 9: Sequencing Bass Lines

Chapter 10: Sequencing Keys

Chapter 11: Sequencing Guitar

Chapter 12: Sequencing Strings

Chapter 13: Sampling

Chapter 14: Sound Design/Special Effects

Chapter 15: Mixing

Chapter 16: Remixing

Chapter 17: Mastering

Chapter 18: Adding Soundtracks to Picture

Chapter 19: Perfor,ing Live With a Laptop

Chapter 20: Advertising/Jingles

Chapter 21: Copyright Do's and Don'ts

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