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Picking up from the Beginner edition, this DVD covers: the fundamentals of synthesis; how to use Racks, Launch triggers and Follow Actions; how to Capture and Insert Scenes; automating MIDI and audio effects; using equalizers, compressors and mastering effects; exporting a mix; and more. Three hours.

This beginner DVD explains in detail how to record audio and MIDI from the Arrangement view as well as the Session view. You'll learn how to use quantization to tighten up tracks and audio and MIDI editors to enhance performances. Also covers power-user techniques, on-board synthesizers, Racks, Warp Markers, the Arpeggiator and much more. Three and a half hours of quality instruction!

For more than 20 years, Finale has been the industry standard in music notation software. It has transformed the process by which composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students, and publishers create, edit, audition, print, and publish musical scores. The refinements found in Finale 2010 benefit beginning and advanced users alike by streamlining common tasks to make them more intuitive and more efficient while retaining all of Finale's unrivaled power. While this new Music Pro Guides DVD focuses on the beginning user, it also offers many faster and easier ways of using Finale for those who learned Finale using earlier versions. Host Tom Johnson is a Product Specialist from MakeMusic, with more than 20 years of experience demonstrating Finale's awesome potential. Throughout the program, Tom offers additional tips and techniques that are vital to getting the most out of your Finale experience. If you're interested in getting up to speed quickly on Finale 2010, this program is definitely for you! 1 hour, 18 minutes. Topics covered include: Getting Started - quickly and easily begin new scores and discover key concepts to understanding Finale. Entering Music - enter notes using a mouse, computer keyboard, MIDI keyboard, scanner, and by importing MIDI files. Adding Details - transform notes into music with the addition of articulations, slurs, expressions, chords, and more. Formatting - Finale's ability to create anything on the page is unrivaled. With the essential formatting tricks you'll learn here, you'll be ready to tackle a wide variety of common projects. Sharing Your Music - share your music with others by printing your score or parts, creating .WAV and .MP3 files, saving MIDI files, exporting SmartMusic accompaniments, and more.

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 Logic 8's new Multitake Management and Quick Swipe Comping dramatically streamline the overdub process. Learn to master the powerful new audio editng 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 introudcitng you to even more features from the massive Logic 8 Pro Studio package. 120 minutes.

Apple's Logic Pro 7 is an industry-standard application for audio and music production used by professional engineers and musicians around the world. Now that you've mastered the fundamentals, it's time to take your production skills to a new level using the power of Logic Pro 7's professional production environment. Logic instructor Andrew Eisele demonstrates advanced techniques you can use right away to streamline your workflow. Learn serious power-user steps using key commands and screen sets to create an efficient Autoload, and techniques for working with the environment and onboard editors such as Hyperdraw. Discover how to quickly set up an Arpeggiator, and how to instantly create amazing compositions using Apple Loops. This DVD is the professional Logic user's guide to advanced production techniques such as freezing tracks to save system resources, side chaining a compressor, and routing virtual effects, bussing audio outputs, and more. You'll learn instantly how to set up and edit automation, while getting an in-depth look at the functionality behind several of Logic's specialty plug-ins such as Space Designer. Along the way, Andrew will share many valuable pro-level engineering tips and techniques he has learned from his years of producing with and teaching Logic. 100 minutes.

Apple's Logic 7 sets the standard for Mac-based audio and music, but the sheer size and complexity of the program can be a little daunting to the beginning user. This training DVD will get you quickly up to speed so you're recording and mixing professional audio with Apple's Logic Express or Logic Pro 7 in no time at all! Logic instructor Andrew Eisele provides an in-depth experience that will familiarize you with Logic's feature set, including the Arrangement Page, and the audio and MIDI editors. You'll learn how to install Logic, setup audio and MIDI devices, create a new project, and more. This DVD (applicable to Logic Express or Logic Pro) demonstrates how to record and edit audio and MIDI into the program, plus build out your arrangement using loops, samples, loop copies and aliases, even duplicating and layering tracks. You'll learn how to apply real-time effects to your recordings, use automation features, and mix down your final tracks to a stereo digital file, ready for mastering! 128 minutes.

The true power of Logic Pro 7 lies in its virtual instruments, synthesizers, sampling power and its vast array of incredible software plug-ins. The more you know about using these revolutionary music production tools, the better your Logic Pro 7 experience will be. In this extended program, instructor Andrew Eisele takes you on an in-depth tour of each of Logic Pro 7's virtual instruments, including the ES1, ES2, and EXS24 Sampler, as well as Ultrabeat, and Sculpture. He'll demonstrate advanced sequencing techniques, explain signal flow, and guide you through the functionality of oscillators, modulators and filters - fundamental components of nearly all synthesizers. In the second half of the program, Andrew demonstrates many of Logic's standard plug-ins, such as Space Designer, so you can begin using these features in your own production work right away. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced user, this DVD will enhance your understanding of Logic Pro 7 and uncover its true potential. 149 minutes.

Logic Pro 9 streamlines the technical side of things, so you can record, edit, and mix it, too. Whether you work in a state-of-the-art studio or in your garage, now you can easily put the power of the most advanced tools to work for your projects.

Pro Tools 8 - Advanced Level goes deep into the digital-audio application, providing insights and techniques for using this powerful and amazing software to help you create spectacular music. This program begins with a tutorial that introduces you to how synthesizers work, preparing you to use the new onboard soft synths in Pro Tools 8. You'll learn how to set up and use Rewire instruments, and you'll get acquainted with each of the new synths in Pro Tools 8, including the Boom drum module, the DB-33 organ, and the Mini Grand piano. You'll explore Structure Free (a sample player), Xpand2 (a multitimbral virtual synth), and Transfuser (a virutal synth-workstation). Using sounds from these modules, host Andrew Eisele will build up an arrangement using a variety of tools, such as combining analog and electronic drum tracks, working with loops and groove clips, and using the many onboard audio and MIDI editing tools in Pro Tools 8. In the mixing segment, you'll learn advanced techniques such as isolating tracks, setting up busses, inserting dynamic and real-time effects, writing automation, and applying effects, both to tracks and to the stereo bus during mastering. Throughout this video, you'll learn tips and tricks you can use right away to make your own productions sound amazing! 2 hours, 55 minutes.

Digidesign's Pro Tools LE 7 continues to set the recording industry standard for professional low-cost, high-quality audio and MIDI production with software that produces projects fully compatible with Pro Tools HD studio systems. Combined with a variety of new hardware options from Digidesign like the 002, Mbox or compatible M-Audio devices, Pro Tools LE 7 (and Pro Tools M-Powered) is the ideal creative music production tool. This easy-to-use beginning guide to Pro Tools is designed to take you through a full, entry-level session showing you everything you need to know to take your song from start to finish using the hardware and software components of the system. You'll learn all the basic features for recording audio and MIDI, applying effects, editing automation and mixing down your tracks. You'll even learn how to open your projects up to the expansive world of VST plug-ins from third party developers that you can use right alongside your Pro Tools RTAS effects and instruments. 100 minutes.