Making Music with Emagic Logic Audio [Paperback]

Stephen Bennett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 2001

* For PC and Mac
* Installation and setting up
* Using the editors
* MIDI recording
* Recording audio
* Audio editing
* Plug-ins
* User tips and tricks

This book introduces all the features of Emagic Logic Audio, but never loses sight of your objective - using the program to make great music. Emagic Logic Audio is considered to be a 'complicated' program, but, by taking a step by step 'logical' approach, the book makes it easy to use the program's features to the full.

It describes the installation of the program on Macs and PCs, gives a practical introduction to setting up and using Logic, and it leads you through your first recording. It describes how to use the Arrange page, the Event list editor, the Matrix, Audio and Hyper editors, and how to use the Score editor to print out your music.

There are sections on audio and MIDI recording and editing, mixing, virtual instruments, mastering, plug-ins and audio processing. There is an invaluable overview of all the menus in Logic, choosing and using a computer and audio interface for Logic, as well as lists of key commands and shortcuts.

In short it's all you need to get up and running with Emagic Logic Audio!

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About the Author

Stephen Bennett is a musician, writer and filmmaker based in the UK. Apart from the series of Logic Audio books for PC Publishing, he writes for Sound on Sound magazine and is a contributor to AudioMedia and other Music technology publications. He runs Chaos Studios in Norwich and is currently recording with bands The Fire Thieves and Henry Fool, alongside his other multimedia and editing work.

He teaches Music and Technology at the University of East Anglia and is also the manager of the Music Department's world-renowned electroacoustic music studio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: PC Publishing (March 3, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1870775651
• ISBN-13: 978-1870775656
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,643,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful book, July 17, 2001

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Lukas Svoboda (Auckland, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Music with Emagic Logic Audio (Paperback)

As someone new to Logic I have found this book to be extremely valuable in learning many of the esoteric features of logic. I've used Cubase extensively and Logic is a bit of a paradigm shift, but this book is now helping me with this. The book is quite meaty in places which suits me fine considering I've been writing music on computers for years now. I didn't buy the wizoo guide because it looked pretty basic and my needs were more advanced. Only little niggles I've had is a few typo's and bad spelling in the book. Otherwise well worth it... Pity about the exchange rate to New Zealand dollars though.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre Laundry List, November 5, 2002

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Johnny "John D." (Los Angeles, CA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Music with Emagic Logic Audio (Paperback)

As a professional, proficient user of other leading sequencers (e.g., Pro Tools, Cakewalk Sonar, and Cubase), I was very disappointed with Stephen Bennett's book "Making Music With EMagic Logic Audio".

The great majority of the book consists of laundry lists that provide only short descriptions of what various toolbars and buttons do--descriptions that are already available in eMagic Logic Audio's manual. The book fails to give us specific examples and walk-throughs to teach the various functions that are available in Logic.

The only chapter that is somewhat useful is the chapter on 'setting up an environment' in Logic. It does provide a step-by-step guide to setting up a simple environment. Unfortunately, it doesn't go into greater detail and covers only a small fraction of Logic's functionality. If you have multiple MIDI instruments, MIDI, audio and soundcards, this book won't help you set them up.

The remaining chapters are even more superficial, and provide laundry lists of Logic's functionality. But again, no walk-throughs or specific examples. Key features like Logic's audio tools are not covered.

I cannot recommend the purchase of this book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much logic here, December 2, 2002

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Cookies (at home) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Music with Emagic Logic Audio (Paperback)

The problem with this book is the writing style of the author. I had to re-read some pages three or four times and I still had no idea what he was talking about and I use logic every day!

I found going back to the manual much more helpful 90% of the time. As Logic books go, it's dated and missing a lot of information. The section on dealing with VST instruments is few pages long and I think thats dates it more than anything.

The author spends a inordinate time talking about setting up a midi environment and skipping over all the things that make logic so powerful.

Most of the book reads like a laundry list to be honest. No real world examples are given. A shame really.

Crack open the manual and experiment. I think that will be much more rewarding than any time you spend with this book.