Real World Digital Audio is a comprehensive resource? A book and the combo? DVD offers practical suggestions for making great music with modern technology? Valuable reference whatever your musical genre or preferred audio application. From recording, mixing, and producing CDs, musical scores, and video soundtracks, to perform live with your laptop, this is the definitive guide to the art of creating digital music. Real World Digital Audio will show you how to Select software and hardware appropriate for the direction of your music and your budget Optimize your setup for maximum recording quality and reliability Choose and strategically place microphones for different recording situations Use loops and grooves to create a background song, DJ, and enhance live performances? Master MIDI and audio editing techniques to make expressive, polished tracks Create dynamic sounds with audio effects, synthesizers, and soft synths Generate publication-quality notated scores on your Mix, master's desktop, and share professional recordings, online music, video and DVD soundtrack included with this book is cross-platform data DVD compatible with Macs and Windows computers.