1st Edition

In the Box Music Production: Advanced Tools and Techniques for Pro Tools

By Mike Collins Copyright 2015
686 Pages 250 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

686 Pages
by Routledge

686 Pages 250 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Sure, you can import and mix a track in Pro Tools. You can work with MIDI and you know your way around the Edit window. The UI is as familiar as your most broken-in pair of jeans. We get it—you don’t need another button-pushing guide starting from the ground floor. Get uniquely in-depth coverage instead with In the Box Music Production: Advanced Tools and Techniques for Pro Tools . Author... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 - Working with Loops and Beats in Pro Tools: Chapter 1 - Bringing in Audio & Loops; Chapter 2 – Working with Regions and Loops; Chapter 3 – Beat Detective; Chapter 4 - Elastic Audio; Part 2 - Working with Virtual Instruments in Pro Tools: Chapter 5 – Creating and Working with Beats; Chapter 6 – Working with Virtual Instruments; Chapter 7 – ReWire Applications; Part 3 – Studio Techniques for Pro Tools: Chapter 8 – Vocal Production, Effects & Manipulation; Chapter 9 – Audio Signal Processing & Effects Creation; Chapter 10 – Mastering & Delivery

Biography

Mike Collins is a studio musician, recording engineer, and producer with more than thirty years’ experience making records. He has many credits on UK chart singles and albums, for radio and TV broadcasts, advertising jingles, and movie scores. Mike has regularly reviewed music and audio software and hardware and written about a variety of audio and music production topics, with more than 2500 articles and reviews published in Future Music, Macworld, MacUser, Personal Computer World, Sound On Sound, AudioMedia, Studio Sound, Electronic Musician, EQ, MIX, Pro Sound News Europe, and others. He is also an established studio musician, MIDI programmer, recording engineer, and producer working on Top 40 albums and singles in top London recording studios. In 1997, Mike set up a project studio equipped with a high-end Pro Tools system and has since been involved in everything from dance remixes to TV ads, background and featured music for TV and video, album editing and compilation, and, since 1999, producing jazz, blues, and soul recordings.