Mastering Digital Audio Production: The Professional Music Workflow with MAC OS X (Includes Dvd)

Cliff Truesdell9780470102596, 0470102594

* Studio power users must mix tools from a variety of different applications to maximize their sound capabilities-veteran studio engineer and professional musician Cliff Truesdell shows users how to integrate the rich variety of Mac production tools inorder to get exactly the results they want * Offers invaluable advice, whether readers already have a complete studio suite or are just starting to assemble their toolkit * Presents practical and immediate ways to use the programs and concepts discussed while also providing users with a wide range of possibilities based on their skill level, experience, and musical style * The companion DVD is packed with dozens of applications readers can use to compose, synth, mix, and output digital music, plus hundreds of free demo tracks, loops, samplers, plug-ins, and virtual instruments

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Table of contents :
Mastering: Digital Audio Production The Professional Music Workflow with Mac OS X……Page 1
Acknowledgments……Page 10
About the Author……Page 12
Contents at a Glance……Page 14
Contents……Page 16
Introduction……Page 28
Who Should Read This Book……Page 29
The Mastering Series……Page 30
What Is Covered in This Book……Page 31
What’s on the DVD……Page 32
How to Contact the Author……Page 34
The Right Memory……Page 36
Setting System Preferences……Page 37
Tips, Tricks, and Software……Page 44
Your Hard Drives……Page 47
OS X Maintenance……Page 51
Hardware Maintenance……Page 54
The Bottom Line……Page 55
Overview of the Reason Program……Page 56
Installation and Audio Setup……Page 58
A First Look at Reason……Page 61
The Reason Instruments……Page 65
Effects……Page 79
The Combinator……Page 84
The Matrix Pattern Sequencer……Page 85
The Reason Sequencer……Page 87
Tutorials……Page 92
ReWire……Page 98
Reason and OS X……Page 99
The Bottom Line……Page 103
Live Basics……Page 104
Included Instruments……Page 114
Included Effects……Page 122
Live Clips……Page 124
Live Tutorials……Page 125
Ableton Live with Reason and ReWire……Page 132
Live and OS X……Page 137
The Bottom Line……Page 140
Pro Tools Basics……Page 142
Plug-in Effects……Page 164
Included Software……Page 174
Creating Templates……Page 181
Pro Tools and Reason……Page 183
Pro Tools and Ableton Live……Page 187
Pro Tools and OS X……Page 191
The Bottom Line……Page 195
Logic Basics: Logic Pro and Logic Express……Page 198
Logic Instruments……Page 218
Included Effects……Page 229
A ReWire Session with Logic and Reason……Page 237
A ReWire Session with Logic and Live……Page 242
Logic and OS X……Page 243
The Bottom Line……Page 244
GarageBand Basics……Page 246
Working with Loops……Page 252
Included Instruments……Page 254
Included Effects……Page 261
GarageBand Tutorials……Page 264
GarageBand and ReWire……Page 273
GarageBand and OS X……Page 276
The Bottom Line……Page 278
Get Ready……Page 280
AudioFinder……Page 282
Audio Hijack/Audio Hijack Pro……Page 291
Audacity……Page 295
Wave Editor……Page 299
BIAS Peak……Page 304
Melodyne Cre8……Page 308
Rax……Page 312
VSTi Host……Page 316
ReCycle……Page 320
Sample Manager……Page 323
The Bottom Line……Page 331
Plug-in Formats……Page 332
Types of Effects……Page 341
Plug-in Bundles……Page 368
The Bottom Line……Page 376
Plug-in Formats……Page 378
Using Virtual Instruments……Page 379
Virtual Samplers……Page 383
Virtual Synthesizers……Page 395
Virtual Keyboards……Page 414
Virtual Drums……Page 419
Virtual Amplifiers……Page 432
Virtual Instrument Bundles……Page 442
The Bottom Line……Page 443
What Apple Loops Are……Page 446
Other Loop Formats……Page 447
Buying Loops……Page 448
Apple Loops Utility……Page 449
Using and Creating Loops with Reason……Page 456
Using and Creating Loops in Live……Page 465
Using and Creating Loops with Pro Tools……Page 470
Using and Creating Loops with Logic……Page 479
Using and Creating Loops with GarageBand……Page 484
The Bottom Line……Page 490
Getting Started……Page 492
MIDI Keyboards and Interfaces……Page 496
MIDI and Reason……Page 504
MIDI and Ableton Live……Page 509
MIDI and Pro Tools……Page 514
MIDI and Logic……Page 519
MIDI and GarageBand……Page 523
The Bottom Line……Page 527
Getting Started……Page 530
The Right Laptop……Page 531
The Right Software for Your Laptop Studio……Page 532
Audio and MIDI Interfaces……Page 533
Other Peripherals……Page 535
Laptop Recording……Page 539
In-the-Box Composition……Page 545
The Bottom Line……Page 548
File Formats……Page 550
Mastering……Page 551
Exporting Sessions from Your DAW……Page 558
CD Authoring……Page 563
Using iTunes to Create MP3 and AAC Files……Page 568
Digital Distribution……Page 572
The Bottom Line……Page 575
Appendix A: The Bottom Line……Page 576
Index……Page 610