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Making Music with Emagic Logic Audio

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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.

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.

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.

This book is one of the better books about logic audio around. It's handy if you're a beginner and have a lot of time on your hands. For me personally, i like to teach myself things, and thats where this book falls down. You cannot use it as a reference guide, it only lists the most basic concepts and functions in the index, and many valuable details are left out (or i can't find them). You practically need to read the book from start to end, to get the most out of it. I don't have the patience for this, and so it's not right for me. It's detailed, but sometimes not so logic(al). It covers the basics well, but sometimes it explains functions and concepts without going into how why you would use them.

This book is for beginners who like to be spoon fed - you simply have no option with this book, you cannot use it as a reference guide. I learnt more from glancing at the book, and then using trial and error. There are many useful tutorials on the web as well.

I spent [money] on this book and wish i hadn't.

Buy this if you are a person who has a lot of patience...

Don't buy it if you're looking for a quick and easy way to learn logic.

I hope this helps

THIS IS THE BOOK!!!
This book is incredibly well written and organized. It takes you step by step through all the features of this amazing sequencer.
After struggling for 2 years this book really made it all come together for me.
BUY IT, YOU'LL BE AMAZED