Get ready to master the key operational techniques and cool new features of Ableton Live 8! Ableton Live 8 Course Clips Master is a hands-on training DVD-ROM that provides you with a unique way to take your music to the next level with Live. If you've been using Live and you want to get more out of your rig, then you've come to the right place. You'll cover the major topics as you work through more than four hours of movie tutorials. If you're a new user and need to get up to speed with Live, use the Introduction topic to take you through set-up, basic definition, and the new features added in Live 8. Full of movie tutorials that include not only basic functionality, but also production techniques, special shortcuts, key commands, and before and after audio examples. Features: Provides over 4 hours of movie tutorials on the intermediate and advanced operational topics in Ableton Live 8; Teaches you how to operate the software by showing you (via video clips and voice over) how to do it - it's as if you're looking over the shoulder of an expert and seeing and watching the walk-through!; Shows not only software operation, but production techniques; Takes Ableton Live users with some experience up to the next level; Allows you to easily switch back and forth between the Course Clips and Ableton Live, in order to try techniques as you learn them.

Steinberg's Cubase has been a leading choice among musicians for writing music both on Macs and PCs for over a decade. Now, with Cubase SX 2.0, Steinberg further enhances the virtual studio with tons of new features, plus virtual synths and effects to make your music sound its best. This beginner level DVD gets you started making music immediately by providing both a guided tour and a comprehensive how-to tutorial. Covers: setting up audio and MIDI hardware, understanding the Cubase SX 2.0 interface, sequencing virtual synths, using digital audio plus MIDI tracks, making digital audio recordings, mixing using real-time effects, exporting your song as a digital audio file, and more! 45 minutes.

Everything you need to know to become a sound technician in a house of worship and beyond. Starting with the foundations, you'll progress into learning how sound is captured with microphones and transduced into electricity. From there, you will explore the mixing console, and how sound is projected through the speaker system. After delving into digital processors, you will learn how to set up a system to create an optimal environment for projecting sound and how to maintain/readjust it. Although the concepts in this book are complex, they are conveyed in non-technical language that's easy to follow and put into practice.

This interactive training DVD-ROM guides you through the key operational techniques and cool new features of Propellerhead's Reason 4. Comprised of approximately six hours of movie tutorials, this unique learning tool includes not only functionality, but also production techniques, special shortcuts, key commands, and before and after audio examples. Reason 4 CSi Master takes you to the next level of software and production operation through detailed discussions of software buttons, elements and menu items, production technique demonstrations, shortcuts, and tips. If you're a new users, the Introduction topic is useful for learning set-up, first record, edit, and mix. Even the most experienced Reason users will find tips and techniques that advance their overall knowledge of this powerful software!

Propellerhead Software's Reason is a revolutionary software synthesizer and sequencer that can function as a total virtual production environment, integrating software synths and drum machines with sampler, playback and effects modules. Reason has become the weapon of choice for many electronic musicians, and this DVD will make sure you don't get left behind! Covers all of Reason's (versions 1.0 and 2.0) functions from basic sequencing and sound production to advanced effects and integration with other programs via ReWire. 75 MIN.

This comprehensive video series features theories and practices which are timeless. Lubin explains audio recording in a straightforward and concise fashion. Each 80-minute video will give you the skills to make your good recording sound great. These videos are a staple in recording schools everywhere.

For more than a decade, this classic video course has taught professional recording techniques to thousands of musicians, students, engineers and producers. Now, the five-video Shaping Your Sound series has been remastered and released on two separate DVD's! (HL00330866 and HL00330867) Volume 2 demystifies and explains the secrets of expert audio recording in an easy-to-understand manner so you immediately get the most out of your sessions. In this DVD, you'll sit in on a complex mixing session, and see the advantages of various studio microphone types. Also, you'll learn the ins and outs of analog multi-track recording, the format that is still preferred by the pros. Hosted by world-renowned educator, producer and engineer Tom Lubin, this DVD will give you the skills you need to make good recordings sound great. 180 minutes. Also available, Volume 1 (HL00330866)

Learn to use your EQ to open up the sound of your recordings and make room for each instrumental texture while discovering various types of EQ curves and devices. This video covers compressors and gates and how to use them to shape the dynamics of any instrument by emphasizing or diminishing the attack, sustain or release of each note, and tells how to set up each of these devices with particular instruments and when to use them. Computer animations and visuals help you understand how these workhorse tools can teach you amazing hi-tech tricks!

With this video, you can: sit in on a complex 16-track recording mixing session; explore the inside of the recording console and learn how to route signals in, through and out of the board; understand effects, loops, mixing in layers, adding vocals, completing the mix-down; and more.