Description

Remember when home recording for a guitarist consisted of a four-track cassette PortaStudio—maybe combined with a microphone, a nice drum machine, and a digital effects box? Sure, those are decent recording tools, but wouldn’t it be nice to have equipment that gives you limitless track counts, racks of effects, awesome built-in drums, and virtual bass guitar thrown in with unlimited synth, sampled sounds and textures, mixing, processing, and mastering, with the ability to easily mix the finished product to a CD? Think that’s out of your league? Think again! "Guitarist’s Guide to Computer Music" shows you how to turn your computer into a recording, editing, producing, sound-wrangling, effect-processing, mixing studio that really rocks. You won’t believe the results!

Features

Table of Contents

1. Starting with the Familiar
2. Installing the Software from the CD-ROM
3. Let’s Record Some Guitar
4. Getting the Right Hardware
5. Virtual Effects Processing
6. Bring on the Drums
7. Creating a Virtual Band
8. Hands and Feet-on Control
9. Mixing and Automating
10. Creating a Finished Product
11. Studio Setups
12. Taking It on the Road
13. A Round Up of Computer Hardware and Software
14. What About the Computer
15. Looking Back Through What We’ve Learned
Appendices:
A: Understand the Difference Between MIDI and Audio
B: Setting Up Windows XP for Music
C: Internet Resources

Author Bio

Robin Vincent
Robin Vincent is technical director of Carillon Audio Systems in the United Kingdom, where he designs and builds computer music studios. He also manages the PC music side of London's famous Turnkey music shop and he fields questions from would-be PC musicians all day long, so he has all the answers.

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