Introduction |
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Part 1: Leaping Into Logic Pro X |
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Chapter 1 Getting Logic Pro Up and Sprinting |
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Transitioning from Other Software |
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Planning your creative process |
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Getting to the finish line |
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Connecting Your Logic Pro Studio |
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Chapter 2 Examining Logic Pro Projects |
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Naming and renaming a project |
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Saving time with project templates |
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Recover from problems with project backups |
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Create options with project alternatives |
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Customizing Your Project Settings |
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Import settings and content from other projects |
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Export your project for collaboration |
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Chapter 3 Exploring the Main Window and Tracks Area |
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Getting comfortable in the main window |
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Working in the tracks area |
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Controlling the control bar |
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Polishing in the editors area |
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Investigating the inspector |
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Taking Inventory of Your Track List |
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Make headway with track headers |
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Make it pretty with track colors |
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Keeping It Simple with Smart Controls |
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Editing smart control layouts |
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Manually mapping smart controls |
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Editing smart control parameters |
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Controlling the controls with your controller |
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Navigating with Key Commands |
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Saving Workspaces with Screensets |
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Chapter 4 Embracing Tracks and Regions |
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64 | (5) |
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Software instrument track |
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Sorting and Hiding Tracks |
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Creating Options with Track Alternatives |
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Dragging, moving, and resizing regions |
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Splitting, joining, and deleting regions |
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Snapping regions to a grid |
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Looping and copying regions |
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Part 2: Digital Recording And Using Prerecorded Media |
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Chapter 5 Introduction to Digital Audio and MIDI |
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Understanding Digital Audio |
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81 | (5) |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (1) |
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Choosing audio file types |
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Connecting Your Audio Devices |
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Choosing your input and output device |
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Setting your I/O buffer size and reducing latency |
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Monitoring signals through your hardware or software |
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Exploring audio preferences |
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91 | (2) |
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Connecting Your MIDI Devices |
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Connecting MIDI controllers |
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Connecting external instruments |
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Exploring MIDI preferences |
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Chapter 6 Recording Audio |
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Preparing to Record Audio |
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Test your recording levels |
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Enable software and input monitoring |
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Recording Your First Audio Take |
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Recording Multiple Takes in Cycle Mode |
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Recording Multiple Inputs |
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Punching In and Punching Out |
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Recording with Smart Tempo |
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Setting Up Multiple Monitor Mixes |
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Giving your singer a separate vocal cue mix |
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107 | (2) |
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109 | (12) |
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109 | (7) |
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Recording external MIDI instruments |
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Recording software instruments |
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Recording with musical typing |
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Recording with the step input keyboard |
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Recording Your First MIDI Take |
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Recording Multiple MIDI Takes in Cycle Mode |
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117 | (1) |
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Creating Tracks in Cycle Mode |
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Recording Multiple MIDI Inputs |
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Chapter 8 Adding Media to Your Project |
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Adding Apple Loops to Your Project |
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Navigating the loop browser |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (2) |
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125 | (1) |
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Adding Prerecorded Audio to Your Project |
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Using the browsers to find audio files |
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Adding audio to your project |
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Adding audio from the media browser |
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Adding audio from the all files browser |
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Importing Video to Your Project |
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Adding a movie to your project |
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Exploring the movie track |
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Creating movie scene markers |
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Importing audio from your movie |
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Part 3: Making Music With Virtual Instruments |
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Chapter 9 Making Beats with Drum and Percussion Software Instruments |
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Playing with Your Virtual Drummer |
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138 | (6) |
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138 | (1) |
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Choosing and directing your drummer in the editor |
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Building custom kits with Drum Kit Designer |
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Converting drummer regions to MIDI regions |
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Creating Beats with Ultrabeat |
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Exploring the Ultrabeat interface |
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Choosing sounds in the assignment section |
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146 | (2) |
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Shaping sounds in the synthesizer section |
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Sequencing patterns in the step sequencer |
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152 | (3) |
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Controlling patterns with MIDI |
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Exporting patterns into the tracks area |
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156 | (1) |
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Designing Electronic Drums Kits with Drum Machine Designer |
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156 | (5) |
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Exploring the Drum Machine Designer interface |
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158 | (1) |
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Playing drums and kit pieces |
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158 | (1) |
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Chapter 10 Playing Virtual Vintage Instruments |
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Taking Stock of Vintage Instruments |
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162 | (1) |
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Loading and playing vintage instruments |
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162 | (1) |
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Choosing vintage instrument presets |
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163 | (1) |
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Spinning Your Tone Wheels with the Vintage B3 |
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164 | (4) |
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Get the vintage vibe with vibrato/chorus and percussion |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (1) |
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Going deep into expert options |
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171 | (1) |
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Controlling the manuals and foot pedals with MIDI controllers |
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172 | (1) |
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Funking Up the Vintage Clay |
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173 | (3) |
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Getting classic sounds with effects |
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176 | (1) |
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Getting the Tone of Tines with the Vintage Electric Piano |
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Exploring tines, reeds, and tone bars |
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176 | (1) |
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Producing great sounds with timeless effects |
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177 | (1) |
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Playing with additional parameters |
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177 | (1) |
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Making Music with the Vintage Mellotron |
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178 | (1) |
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Fusing Four Synths with Retro Synth |
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Choosing your flavor of synthesis: Analog, sync, wavetable, and FM |
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179 | (1) |
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Controlling your synth parameters |
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180 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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Chapter 11 Sound Design with Synths and Samplers |
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183 | (24) |
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Exploring the Logic Pro Synths |
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183 | (12) |
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185 | (1) |
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The ES1 subtractive synth |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (2) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (2) |
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The EVOC 20 poly synth vocoder |
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194 | (1) |
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Modeling Sounds Using Sculpture |
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Understanding sound modeling |
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Exploring the Sculpture interface |
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197 | (2) |
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Sampling with the EXS24 Sampler |
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Importing sample libraries |
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199 | (1) |
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Converting regions to sampler instruments |
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200 | (1) |
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Controlling sample parameters |
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201 | (1) |
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Editing sampled instruments |
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202 | (1) |
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Manipulating Samples with Alchemy |
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203 | (4) |
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Exploring the Alchemy interface |
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203 | (1) |
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Designing and resynthesizing sounds |
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204 | (1) |
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Chapter 12 Conducting a Virtual Orchestra |
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Building an Orchestral Template |
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208 | (6) |
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Choosing your orchestral instruments |
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209 | (2) |
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Choosing appropriate staff styles |
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211 | (1) |
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Saving your orchestral template |
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212 | (2) |
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Performing Your Orchestra |
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214 | (2) |
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Playing with Studio Strings and Horns |
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216 | (1) |
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Traveling the World Instruments |
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Part 4: Arranging And Editing Your Project |
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Chapter 13 Arranging Your Music |
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221 | (28) |
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Working in the Tracks Area |
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221 | (5) |
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222 | (1) |
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Scrubbing the arrangement |
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223 | (1) |
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Investigating the region inspector |
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223 | (2) |
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Investigating the track inspector |
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225 | (1) |
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Showing Your Global Tracks |
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226 | (8) |
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Creating and naming markers |
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227 | (2) |
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Creating key signature and time signature changes |
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229 | (2) |
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231 | (2) |
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Creating arrangement markers |
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233 | (1) |
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Creating transposition points |
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233 | (1) |
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Beat Mapping Your Arrangement |
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234 | (2) |
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Beat mapping MIDI regions |
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234 | (1) |
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Beat mapping audio regions |
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235 | (1) |
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Automatically beat-mapping regions |
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235 | (1) |
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Arranging Regions in the Tracks Area |
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237 | (1) |
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Selecting parts of regions with the marquee tool |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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Soloing and muting regions |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (1) |
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Fading and crossfading audio regions |
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241 | (1) |
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Stripping silence from audio regions |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (2) |
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Packing and unpacking folders |
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243 | (1) |
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Adding and removing regions |
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244 | (1) |
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Creating alias folders and regions |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (4) |
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Creating a groove template |
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246 | (1) |
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Importing groove templates from other projects |
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247 | (1) |
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Importing third-party groove templates |
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247 | (2) |
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Chapter 14 Editing Audio Tracks |
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Knowing Your Audio Editors |
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249 | (2) |
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250 | (1) |
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251 | (1) |
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Creating the Perfect Take with Quick Swipe Comping |
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251 | (4) |
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252 | (1) |
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253 | (1) |
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Packing and unpacking take folders |
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254 | (1) |
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Time Traveling with Flex Time |
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255 | (4) |
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Choosing flex time algorithms |
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256 | (2) |
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258 | (1) |
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259 | (1) |
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Editing pitch in the tracks area |
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260 | (1) |
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Editing pitch in the audio track editor |
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260 | (1) |
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Editing pitch event hot spots |
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261 | (1) |
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Quantizing the pitch and scale of a region |
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262 | (1) |
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Editing Audio in the Audio File Editor |
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262 | (5) |
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Navigating and playing audio |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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265 | (2) |
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Editing Tempo in the File Tempo Editor |
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267 | (2) |
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Chapter 15 Editing MIDI Tracks |
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Knowing Your MIDI Editors |
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270 | (4) |
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Editing MIDI in the Piano Roll Editor |
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274 | (3) |
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275 | (1) |
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Editing the velocity of notes |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (1) |
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Editing MIDI in the Step Editor |
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277 | (2) |
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Creating and editing steps |
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277 | (1) |
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Creating and editing lanes |
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278 | (1) |
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Creating and editing lane sets |
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279 | (1) |
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Editing MIDI in the Score Editor |
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279 | (4) |
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Creating and editing notes in the score |
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280 | (1) |
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Investigating the score region inspector |
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281 | (1) |
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Adding items from the part box |
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282 | (1) |
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Editing MIDI in the MIDI Transform Window |
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283 | (2) |
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284 | (1) |
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Creating transform presets |
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285 | (1) |
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Editing MIDI in the Event List Editor |
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285 | (2) |
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285 | (1) |
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Creating and editing events |
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286 | (1) |
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Editing Your MIDI Environment |
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287 | (4) |
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Exploring object parameters |
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287 | (1) |
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Viewing environment layers |
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288 | (1) |
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Inserting objects in the environment |
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Part 5: Mixing, Mastering, And Sharing Your Music |
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Chapter 16 Mixing Your Project |
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291 | (20) |
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Understanding Important Mixing Concepts |
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291 | (8) |
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292 | (1) |
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292 | (2) |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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Knowing Your Channel Strip Types |
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299 | (2) |
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299 | (1) |
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Instrument channel strips |
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300 | (1) |
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300 | (1) |
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Using Meters to Visualize Volume and Levels |
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301 | (4) |
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302 | (1) |
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Choosing pre-fader or post-fader metering |
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302 | (2) |
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Changing the level-meter scale |
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304 | (1) |
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305 | (1) |
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Adjusting Channel Strip Controls |
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305 | (4) |
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Adjusting volume and toggling between levels |
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306 | (1) |
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Adjusting the pan balance |
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306 | (1) |
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Muting and soloing tracks |
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307 | (1) |
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Choosing input and output settings |
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308 | (1) |
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Selecting channel strip settings |
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309 | (1) |
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Chapter 17 Shaping Your Mix with Effects |
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311 | (20) |
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311 | (3) |
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Adding audio and MIDI insert effects |
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312 | (1) |
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312 | (2) |
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314 | (3) |
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Understanding how insert and send effects work |
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314 | (1) |
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Using auxiliary channel strips |
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314 | (1) |
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Using multi-output instruments |
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315 | (1) |
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Using the output and master channel strips |
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316 | (1) |
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Adjusting the EQ of Your Tracks |
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317 | (3) |
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317 | (2) |
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319 | (1) |
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Adding Depth with Reverb and Delay |
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320 | (5) |
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321 | (2) |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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Adding or Removing Dynamics with Compression |
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325 | (6) |
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325 | (3) |
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328 | (1) |
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Using other dynamics tools |
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329 | (2) |
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Chapter 18 Automating Your Mix |
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331 | (6) |
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Turning Your Mix Into a Performance with Automation |
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331 | (1) |
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Choosing Your Automation Mode |
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332 | (1) |
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Adding Automation to Your Tracks |
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333 | (2) |
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Adjusting automation points |
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334 | (1) |
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Moving regions with or without automation |
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334 | (1) |
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Recording Live Automation |
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335 | (2) |
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Chapter 19 Mastering Your Final Track |
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337 | (8) |
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338 | (2) |
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338 | (1) |
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Matching a reference mix with Match EQ |
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338 | (2) |
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Adding Multiband Compression |
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340 | (2) |
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341 | (1) |
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341 | (1) |
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342 | (3) |
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Using Adaptive Limiter for maximum loudness |
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342 | (1) |
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Matching levels to other recorded material |
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343 | (2) |
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Chapter 20 Bouncing and Sharing Your Music |
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345 | (8) |
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345 | (3) |
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Recording external instruments before you bounce |
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346 | (1) |
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Bouncing to an audio file |
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347 | (1) |
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Creating Stems and Alternate Mixes |
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348 | (2) |
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349 | (1) |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (5) |
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Sharing your project to iTunes |
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Sharing your project to the media browser |
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Sharing your project to SoundCloud |
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Part 6: The Part Of Tens |
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Chapter 21 Ten Ways to Use an iPad with Logic Pro X |
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Editing Tracks and Your Arrangement |
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358 | (2) |
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Using Your iPad Mixing Console |
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360 | (1) |
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361 | (1) |
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361 | (1) |
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Adding Tracks with GarageBand for iOS |
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363 | (1) |
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364 | (3) |
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Chapter 22 Ten Tips to Speed Your Workflow |
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367 | (6) |
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367 | (1) |
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368 | (1) |
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Save Track Stack Patches and Channel Strip Settings |
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369 | (1) |
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Choose a Tool and Master It |
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370 | (1) |
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Choose a Tool and Ignore It |
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370 | (1) |
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Use the Fastest Way, Not the Right Way |
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370 | (1) |
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Establish a Troubleshooting Strategy |
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Save and Back Up Frequently |
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Don't Lose Sight of the Music |
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