The first comprehensive, Apple-authorized guide to the software that many of todays top recording studios are adopting as standard.

Covers important aspects of using Logic to produce audio, including recording, mixing, and producing 5.1 surround sound, as well as using Logics software instruments and Digital Signal Processors.

Companion DVD includes lesson and project files as well as a trial version of Logic. Whether youre a composer looking to digitize your compositions, a video artist seeking the best and most cost-effective solution for creating 5.1 surround soundtracks, or an audio hobbyist wanting to transfer that song out of your head and onto an audio CD, this book will help you understand Logicthe high-end audio software created by Emagic, which was acquired by Apple last year. In this Apple-certified course, multimedia artist and veteran audio producer Martin Sitter, along with veteran Logic instructor and keyboardist Robert Brock, uses step-by-step instruction and straightforward, jargon-free prose to detail the countless creative options Logic affords for audio production. Readers will learn how to set up a Logic Environment, record audio and MIDI, edit sequences, master mixing techniques, and use Logics software synthesizers, sampler, and Digital Signal Processors (compressors, reverbs, etc.) to put the perfect aural polish on their audio creations. As with the other titles in the Apple Pro Training Series, readers can work through the book from cover to cover to get an entire coursecomplete with review questions at the end of each chapter and lesson files and a trial version of Logic on the accompanying DVD. Or readers can go straight to the sections that interest them most!