Music Production with Cubase 10 and 10.5


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The Italian best seller that teaches how to start producing music with Steinberg Cubase, now also available in English! Second edition, completely revised and now with index. Find out how to produce music with Steinberg Cubase 10 or 10.5, even starting from scratch. Music Production with Cubase 10 and 10.5 will guide you step by step to discover all the notions, tools and techniques that are essential to start producing music with Cubase 10 or 10.5. This book is particularly suitable for beginners and medium level users, and it teaches not only how to use Cubase, but also the basics of modern music production. Install and setup Cubase. Record audio and MIDI material. Use virtual instruments. Edit and adjust your sounds. Understand and use the main effects. Mix, master and export your projects. With a support website to download files, sample projects and all the colour images in high resolution. Want to master music production with Cubase? Read this book. AudioMentor.com I will recommend this manual to all my students who want to boost their learning process [...] and become tomorrow's practitioners. Seismal D (Talking about the Italian edition) This is the perfect manual for students who are just approaching music production and schools that use Steinberg products; it is well written and comprehensive without being intimidating. AudioFader Magazine (Review of the Italian edition) Pierluigi Bontempi is a Steinberg Certified Trainer. He is technical officer of the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of the University of Pavia (Cremona branch), where he holds Steinberg certified courses and is also responsible for the audiovisual laboratory (Digital Lab). He has held many music production training courses in Northern Italy. He is a contributor to specialist magazines such as SM Strumenti Musicali and AudioFader; in the past, he collaborated with Axe Magazine, a monthly review for guitarists. He has worked with the music manuals publisher Volontè & Co. on several original publications and Italian translations. Support Website https: //musicproductionwithcubase.cloud




Audio Production Basics with Cubase 10.5


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Learn the basics of recording, editing, and mixing audio using Cubase Elements, Artist, or Pro. Experience the software used worldwide by musicians, producers, engineers, mixers, and audio professionals. Filled with tips and insights, Audio Production Basics with Cubase 10.5 will get you working fast. With this book and the included media files, you’ll get the practical, hands-on exposure you need. We cover everything from setting up your computer to the fundamentals of audio production, including: Basic Digital Audio Workstation operations and audio hardware options Principles of sound production and microphone use Essential Cubase concepts and operations MIDI fundamentals for playing and performing with virtual instruments Multi-track recording Plug-in use and signal processing techniques Mixing your project and using automation Outputting your final mixdown Cubase software is very powerful, yet fun and easy to use. Everything you learn here will apply to all editions of Cubase (Elements, Artist, and Pro), so you can easily upgrade in the future no matter where you are starting today. Take the first step now, with Audio Production Basics with Cubase 10.5.







Creative Sequencing Techniques for Music Production


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Pejrolo is an experienced musician, composer/arranger, MIDI programmer, sound designer and engineer. In this illustrated guidebook he focuses on the leading audio sequencers: ProTools, Digital Performer, Cubase SX and Logic Audio, showing how to get the most out of them. The accompanying CD includes examples of arrangements and techniques covered in the book.




Working Class Audio Journal


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Learn from top audio professionals about survival, business practices, mistakes, failures, equipment choices, finances, work life balance, workflow, and family life! Working Class Audio (WCA) is the home of the Working-Class Audio Podcast hosted by veteran Bay Area producer/engineer and drummer Matt Boudreau. And over the years, it has become a treasure trove of inspirational interviews with some of the best audio engineers in the business. The Working Class Audio Journal series captures the essence of Matt's podcast interviews with industry professionals, in an easy-to-digest written form. Matt moves beyond the technical and gets to the core of how top engineers practice their craft, delving into the world behind recording. He goes way beyond the typical “what was it like to work with” or “what is the best EQ to use on a kick drum” style questions typical of most interviews. WCA gets up close and personal with engineers and asks the questions no one else asks. Business practices, mistakes, failures, equipment choices, financial advice, work life balance, workflow, and family life are topics that are all on the table. Volume 1 includes interviews with engineer, producer, and label owner Andrew Scheps (Black Sabbath, Jay Z, Beyonce, Metallica), mastering engineer Kim Rosen (Bonnie Raitt, Aimee Mann, Steve Earle, Kris Kristofferson), audio entrepreneur Langston Masingale (owner of Handsome Audio and inventor of the Zulu passive analog tape simulator), and game sound designer Mark Kilborn (Forza Motorsport, Tony Hawk, Call of Duty, Black Ops). Join Matt and his guests as they discuss their professional journeys. The interviews explore the business dealings, approaches to finances, survival techniques, and the work/life balance as they pertain to a successful audio career. Through their words, you'll gain new perspective and ideas to help you navigate your own career.




Digital Audio Editing


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Whether you’re comping a vocal track, restoring an old recording, working with dialogue or sound effects for film, or imposing your own vision with mash-ups or remixes, audio editing is a key skill to successful sound production. Digital Audio Editing gives you the techniques, from the simplest corrective editing like cutting, copying, and pasting to more complex creative editing, such as beat mapping and time-stretching. You’ll be able to avoid unnatural-sounding pitch correction and understand the potential pitfalls you face when restoring classic tracks. Author Simon Langford invites you to see editing with his wide-angle view, putting this skill into a broad context that will inform your choices even as you more skillfully manipulate sound. Focusing on techniques applicable to any digital audio workstation, it includes break-outs giving specific keystrokes and instruction in Avid’s Pro Tools, Apple’s Logic Pro, Steinberg’s Cubase, and PreSonus’s Studio One. The companion websites includes tutorials in all four software packages to help you immediately apply the broad skills from the book.




Going Pro with Cubase 5


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Going Pro with Cubase 5 provides a useful guidebook for those who are ready to jump to the next step with Cubase and would like some expert-level tips, tricks, and advice to help them truly master the program. Do you already know how to record MIDI and audio in Cubase? Do you already know Cubase's basic tools and terminology? Do you think and work in musical terms, such as bars and beats? Great, than you're ready to "go pro" with Cubase! The overall goal is to get you working quickly and utilizing the newest and best features in Cubase 5 at a professional level without wasting your time. Certain components are summarized in ways that the manual doesn't so that you can get a quick overview without getting lost in details. You'll learn how to get the most out of Cubase 5 when using Steinberg's innovative CC121 controller and MR816 CSX audio interface. You'll also get an inside look at WaveLab and HALion 3 and why you might want to consider adding them to your setup if you haven't already. You'll discover pro mixing techniques that can be acheived without even touching a fader. And you'll get step-by-step instructions on how to interface your Cubase projects with Pro Tools, Nuendo, and other DAWs available on the market. You'll also discover many more expert-level recording techniques in this succinct, to-the-point guide that will have your friends and colleagues asking "how'd you do that!?" So what are you waiting for? Increased mastery is only a few clicks away.




Creative Sequencing Techniques for Music Production


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An inspirational guide for all levels of expertise, Creative Sequencing Techniques for Music Production shows you how to get the most out of the four leading audio sequencers, Logic, Pro Tools, Digital Performer, and Cubase. Using real-life examples, Andrea Pejrolo demonstrates a wide range of technical and creative techniques, giving you tips and new ideas to help you take your work to the next level. If you are producing music and looking to build your skills in orchestration, composition, and mixing you will find all the techniques and practical advice you need in this book. Featuring essential tools, that are now part of the everyday creative process in a digital production environment, to give you the most recent and cutting edge techniques- including swipe-comping, time-stretching, pitch correction, elastic-time, advanced-freezing, and new software synthesizers. The material on the website contains loops, templates, audio examples, and end of chapter exercises to practice new skills, this illustrated practical guide provides all the tools you will need to give your music the vital edge. Whether you are a student or amateur aspiring to more professional results, or a professional wanting to master new skills, this book will help you to improve and take the quality of your work to the next level. *Covers all key sequencing topics such as recording and editing techniques and automation groove quantization, converters, sounds layering, tap tempo, creative meter, tempo changes, and synchronization *Teaches mixing techniques that takes advantage of plug-in technology, maximizing the use of effects such as reverb, compressor, limiter, equalizer, and much more *A website loaded with more than 90 examples of arrangements and techniques, giving you advice on how to troubleshoot those common mistakes and perfect your music production.




Power Tools for Cubase 5


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Cubase 4 Tips and Tricks


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"Discover the art of recording, arranging, editing, using plug-ins and VST instruments, processing audio, mixing and much more"--Page 4 of cover.