Get Creative with Cubase SX

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Get Creative with Cubase SX

Keith Gemmell

217 pp * 236 x 189 mm * Ł16.95 ISBN 1870775 86 4

* For PC and Mac
* With CD of Cubase and audio files
* Compose, arrange, record and mix your music
* Learn by doing with practical projects
* Record and edit with MIDI

Interested in composing - maybe for film and TV? Want to learn how to sequence, record and mix effectively with SX/SL? This project based book and CD will help you do both in a practical and enjoyable way. After all, much of today's commercial music is produced using little more than the composer's creativity harnessed with power of Cubase production software.

The goals of Get Creative with Cubase SX/SL are to foster the user's creativity and help build effective song composition and audio production skills. This is achieved with the aid of step-by-step examples, providing opportunities to compose, record and mix entire productions into a satisfying whole. The powerful production features of Cubase are discovered along the way including:

MIDI and audio recording
The Project window
Audio processing
Audio plug-ins and effects
The Pool
Using the Mixer
Automation
VST Instruments
The Sample Editor
The Audio Part Editor
The MIDI Editors
The Logical Editor
The Tempo Track Editor
MIDI processing
Score Editor

Keith Gemmell is a UK music technology lecturer, composer, arranger, and commercial MIDI file writer. He also publishes educational sheet music and audio products from his busy Internet site.

Keith began his musical career at the age of seventeen playing saxophone, composing and recording progressive rock music for such labels as Virgin, Electra and Elton Johnąs Rocket Records. This valuable experience enabled him to work alongside top record producers such as Gus Dudgeon.