The Street Smart Guide™ to Logic 8 - PDF is a practical, common sense  easy-to-use way to learn Apple's Logic 8.  This book is ideal for those converting from another program to Logic (or thinking about it), moving up from Logic Express, or new to Logic altogether. It's written by songwriter/composer Peter Alexander, the Music Technology & You columnist for the film industry's Film Music Weekly.

The Street Smart Guide™ to Logic 8 is designed for those doing film/TV/dramatic  scoring, songwriting, teaching, and music publishing. Within all the subjects listed below, Peter also covers setting up external MIDI instruments (MIDI keyboard and computer), MIDI editing with EastWest PLAY and Vienna Instrument libraries, basics of applying effects including a master delay table, working with notation to produce lead sheets for publication, Bach chorales for school work and divisi writing, and other projects.

The Street Smart Guide™to Logic 8 is written in a task/steps manner with virtually every task-step screen shot with four-color graphics. Text is in 12-point type to easily go back and forth onscreen between Logic 8 and The Street Smart Guide™to Logic 8.

The Street Smart Guide™to Logic 8 was pre-tested with composers converting to Logic 8 from Cubase, Sonar and Digital Performer, and upgrading from Logic Express.

 

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Organized by five sections:

1. Setup and MIDI Recording
2. MIDI Editing/Recording to Audio
3. Notation Basics
4. Beginning Audio and Recording
5. Catch all

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section 1 - Setup and MIDI Recording
Lesson 1 - Getting Started
Lesson 2 - Software Instruments
Lesson 3 - MIDI Recording
Lesson 4 - Multiple Time Signatures
Lesson 5 - Multiple Tempos
Lesson 6 - Advanced Multiple Tempos
Lesson 7 - Next Recording Steps
Lesson 8 - Autopunch/Replace
Lesson 9 - Step Time

Section 2 - MIDI Editing/Recording to Audio
Lesson 10 - Software Instrument Inspector - Part 1
Lesson 11 - Software Instrument Inspector - Part 2
Lesson 12 - Automation & The Software Instrument Inspector
Lesson 13 - Audio Inspector
Lesson 14 - External Synth/Sampler Setup
Lesson 15 - Region Editing
Lesson 16 - The Region as Musical Phrase
Lesson 17 - Note Length
Lesson 18 - Tick Values
Lesson 19 - Quantizing
Lesson 20 - The Payoff

Section 3 - Notation Basics
Lesson 21 - Creating a Lead Sheet
Lesson 22 - Creating a Bach Chorale

Section 4 - Beginning Audio and Recording
Lesson 23 - Multimbral Setup For Software Instruments
Lesson 24 - Signal Flow and the Logic Mixing Board
Lesson 25 - Beginning Reverb
Lesson 26 - Beginning Space Designer
Lesson 27 - The Other Main Effects
Lesson 28 - EQ Basics
Lesson 29 - Setting Up For Recording With a Single Mic
Lesson 30 - Audio Editing Basics

Section 5 - Catch All
Lesson 31 - Naming Tracks
Lesson 32 - Setting Up the Fermata
Lesson 33 - Tuplets
Lesson 34 - Markers
Lesson 35 - Groups
Lesson 36 - MIDI Import
Lesson 37 - EXS Import

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