Synopses & Reviews
Cubase SX 2 is a powerful digital-audio recording, sequencing, and mixing tool--and, like its competitors--can save you thousands of dollars in studio time and hardware gear. However, even though many of its onscreen tools resemble their analog hardware counterparts--using a tool as complex as Cubase introduces you to a steep learning curve. Cubase SX 2 Visual QuickStart Guide makes it easier to learn the program by teaching it with step-by-step, task-based instructions. Like all other books in the Visual QuickStart series, you can either use it as a reference tool or read the tasks in sequence as an instructional book. Author Thad Brown makes Cubase SX 2's myriad features accessible, even fun, while teaching you how to record, edit, and mix audio and MIDI. If you're a new user, you'll appreciate the strong visual approach and easy-to-follow, no-nonsense format, and if you're a veteran user, you'll seize on the information about SX 2's new features, including its Freeze feature for MIDI tracks. The book takes you from beginner-level topics, such as set up and recording, to more advanced ones like continuous controller messages, routing, and mixer automation. As an added bonus, the SX 2 book features an appendix with a hands-on remixing example, complete with a downloadable source file from magnatune.com.
Synopsis
-- Visual, step-by-step reference brings new and old users quickly up-to-speed on this completely rewritten, industry-leading digital audio and MIDI application.
-- Provides in-depth coverage of features poorly explained in the product manual.
Steinberg's Cubase VST was one of the first applications to function as an audio recording, editing, mixing, and synthesis tool on both Windows and Mac platforms for under $1500. With Cubase SX, Steinberg has massively overhauled its industry-leading audio and MIDI application, totally revamping and updating the entire interface, mixing surface, automation system, MIDI processing, editing tools, and more. Cubase SX for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide allows seasoned Cubase pros to feel their way around the new SX application, learning just what they need to know, while at the same time providing an introduction to Cubase beginners or those switching from another application. The step-by-step reference visually guides readers through the fundamentals of recording, mixing, and editing audio and MIDI before explaining more advanced topics like looping, managing tempos, mixer automation, and file rendering and exporting. This deep and comprehensive book covers everything the manual doesn't, but probably should.
Synopsis
This visual, step-by-step reference brings new and old users quickly up to speed on this completely rewritten, industry leading digital audio and MIDI application. The book provides in-depth coverage of features poorly explained in the product manual. This guide allows seasoned Cubase pros to feel their way around the new SX application, learning just what they need to know.
About the Author
Thad Brown was a senior contributor and regular columnist for Home Recording magazine as well as the author of the previous edition of this book. He is also an experienced musician who consults on issues involving audio, computers, synthesis, recording, and networking. He has lectured at the Center for the Study of Music Technology at Yale University School of Music.