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Logic Pro X 10.4 - Apple Pro Training Series: Professional Music Production, 1st edition

Published by Peachpit Press (June 21, 2018) © 2018

  • David Nahmani
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A Complete User's Guide to Typeface Design with METAFONT
Now, 35 years after the first edition, the leading worldwide experts on these systems have spent several months inspecting every page thoroughly. We now believe that every "i" has been properly dotted,  every "t" has been properly crossed, and every bug has been properly exterminated.
METAFONT, created by author Donald E. Knuth, is a computer language that allows you to produce professional quality typefaces using mathematical type design. The METAFONTbook, a users guide and reference manual, enables readers with only minimal computer science or word processing experience to master the basic as well as the more advanced areas of METAFONT programming.
Readers will learn how to write a program for each letter or symbol of a typeface. Using METAFONT, it is possible to customize a type design that already exists, or even to create an entire alphabet from scratch. It is particularly easy to create logos or special symbols. Advanced users will enjoy the freedom and artistry that METAFONT allows in creating original typefaces.
HIGHLIGHTS
  • Introduces concepts informally early in the text; in later chapters, these concepts are filled in with more detailed explanations.
  • Program exercises are found throughout the text with answers in an appendix.
  • Exercises and concepts of greater difficulty are marked with margin symbols. In this way, both beginning and experienced users of METAFONT can benefit.
  • The book is a companion text to Knuth's The TeXbook, since TeX can be used to typeset with fonts created using METAFONT.

Knuth's familiar wit, and illustrations specially drawn by Duane Bibby, add a light touch to an unusually readable software manual.
The METAFONTbook is the third in a five-volume series on Computers and Typesetting, all authored by Knuth. The METAFONTbook is also available in softcover.
  • This is the only Apple-authorized exam prep guide and official curriculum of the Apple Training program for Logic Pro X 10.4, the latest release of the flagship Apple audio editing software
  • Best-selling Logic Pro book fully revised for new Logic Pro X 10.4 interface and new features by internationally recognized expert and author, David Nahmani
  • Project-based approach is compelling for the hands-on audience for this topic

• Smart TempoRecord performances without metronome and have them automatically quantized or have Logic automatically detect their tempo changes and match other tracks to your performance.

• New Drummers
A new brush kit and two new drummers in the songwriting category.

• Articulation HandlingNew controls for creating, editing and choosing articulations for software instruments.

• Studio Instruments
New Studio Horns and Studio Strings instruments plug-ins

• Vintage MellotronRevamped vintage mellotron instrument.

• Alchemy
New modulations and other functions.

• EffectsNew effect plug-ins such as ChromaVerb, Vintage EQ Collection, Phat FX, Step FX

• ARA Support
Audio Random Access support for Melodyne plug-in.

• Many small productivity enhancements.

  • Exploring the Interface and Working with Real Instruments
  • Lesson 1 Make Music with Logic Now
  • Lesson 2 Recording Audio
  • Lesson 3 Editing Audio
  • Working with Virtual Instruments
  • Lesson 4 Producing a Virtual Drum Track
  • Lesson 5 Using Patches and Recording MIDI
  • Lesson 6 Creating and Editing MIDI
  • Building a Song
  • Lesson 7 Editing Pitch and Time
  • Lesson 8 Editing an Arrangement
  • Mixing and Automating a Song
  • Lesson 9 Mixing
  • Lesson 10 Automating the Mix
  • Appendix A Controlling Logic with an iPad Using Logic Remote
  • Appendix B Keyboard Shortcuts (Default for U.S. Keyboard)

David Nahmani is the founder of LogicProHelp.com, thelargest online community of Logic users. As an expert Logic Pro consultant and teacher, he has worked for Steve Porcaro (Toto, Michael Jackson), Toby Gad (Beyoncé, Alicia Keys), Coco Morier (Britney Spears, Selena Gomez), James Valentine (Maroon 5), Mark Pontius (Foster the People), the Record Plant in Los Angeles, the Winter Music Conference in Miami, the Grammy foundation, ASCAP, Apple, and many more. David wrote and produced songs published by Cleopatra records, Metropolis records, MTV, and Decca/BMG. He coproduced a song on the last Pop Will Eat Itself album and engineered three classical albums for the Bernard Calmel orchestra in Paris, France.

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