Product Description
Digidesign’s Official Pro Tools 101 Courseware takes a comprehensive approach to learning the fundamentals of Pro Tools|HD®, Pro Tools LE®, or Pro Tools M-Powered™ systems. Now updated for Pro Tools 8 software, this new edition from the definitive authority on Pro Tools covers everything you need to know to complete a Pro Tools project. Learn to build sessions that include multitrack recordings of live instruments, MIDI sequences, software synthesizers, and vi… More >>
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Music-Producer-Pro
I still don’t have the produc yet, because they sent me the produc trice both of them didn’t not work. I have to return them, noone ever contact me to ask if i wont a nother one.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am half way through this book and find it very informative and useful to learn the Pro Tools interface. There is a lot of information and it’s a great resource to have in your library for whenever you have a Pro Tools question. I would get it if I were you!!
Rating: 4 / 5
Extremely informative book, with a thorough and concise section explaining basic digital music production. This section alone makes the book worth the price of admission, as other texts assume the user has lots of experience in DAW audio production, but this book explains all. Also contains a thorough history of the development of M-Audio/DigiDesign Pro Tools software and the theories and reasoning behind each new product. The only caveat is that the Pro Tools hardware spoken of so highly in this textbook is proprietary and prohibitively expensive, and most authorized DigiDesign repair centers will tell you to return the DigiDesign stuff to the factory for repairs. I say this from personal experience. I wish the hardware was as interchangeable, reliable, and as reasonably priced as this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is just an updated version from PT7. It does have some changes here and there but I think if your an engineer in training, like I am or a big engineer working at Sony, I think everyone should have this book as a refrence. It does not teach you PT in an instance but it will guide you through some technical difficulties you might have and save you some money from calling Tech Services!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is OK as far as it goes. It’s all technically accurate and fairly well organized. But it’s instructionally lacking in my opinion because the exercises aren’t integrated into the lessons. Instead there are two exercise projects at the end of the book. It would be much better if you were able to practice a particular procedure related to the specific lessons in the chapters.
My other criticism is that this book assumes all users are music producers. For good or ill, Pro Tools has become the industry-standard audio production software. But not everyone who uses it makes music. Many of us make radio documentaries and features. We may use the same tools as music producers but how we approach the work is different. It would be good if training material such as this book acknowledged other user types and offered material from their perspective.
Rating: 3 / 5