The Recording Industry Sourcebook is the leading music business and production directory. This is your #1 source for industry contact information, containing over 15,000 listings in more than 67 categories. For its fifteenth anniversary, this perennial favorite has been given a complete overhaul, with many enhancements and new features. Every listing has been painstakingly verified, and the book has been reorganized for easier use, with new introductions explaining and indexing each easy-to-use tabbed section. On top of that, a searchable Win/Mac CD-ROM of all the book's data is now included with every copy! The 2004 Sourcebook is the directory you need to conduct business in today's music industry.

Ready to unleash the awesome power of Ableton Live 8? You can integrate this live performance and studio software into your existing home or professional music studio to produce, compose, DJ, and much more. But how? Ableton Live 8 Power! is the key you need to revolutionize your studio by incorporating Live. Written for musicians by a fellow musician who uses Live on a daily basis, this useful guide explores fundamental and advanced Live features, and provides insider tips, tricks, and interviews with Live power users to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the ins and outs of this powerful software.

Helps users get the best results from Cakewalk's complete range of synthesizers. Chapters cover Triangle II, PSYN II, Pentagon I, Z3TA+, Session Drummer 2 and Session Drummer 3, Dimension LE and Dimension Pro, Rapture LE and Rapture, and Beatscape, and in the (free) accompanying download package, the chapters cover sfz and sfz+, Cyclone, RXP, DropZone, Square I, DreamStation, Roland GrooveSynth, and TTS-1. In addition, there is a revised and expanded section dedicated to the SFZ format.

Digital Performer is one of the leading digital audio workstation programs for the Mac. It allows you to sequence MIDI, record multiple channels of audio, mix them down, synch them to video, and use plug-in software synthesizers and software studios. Digital Performer 6 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide provides a versatile guide to setting up and using the newest version of MOTU's Digital Performer 6 audio/MIDI sequencing, editing, and recording software. The book's approach is one that will simplify and demystify the technical aspects of setting up and using Digital Performer 6, while also supplying useful engineering tips and shortcuts to help you get the most out of the program. Chapters and sections progress naturally through the music production process, from navigating the interface, setting up projects, and recording, to working with MIDI, editing, arranging, mixing, mastering, handling music notation, and scoring to picture. This setup allows new users to work through the book from start to finish and learn Digital Performer quickly, while intermediate and advanced users can flip to specific areas of interest to learn new tricks and increase their mastery. Regardless of your skill level, this is the only guide to Digital Performer you will ever need to take your music to the next level.

GarageBand 09 has expanded to encompass music education in addition to music composition, recording, and podcasting. Get the most out of this amazing program with GarageBand '09 Power! Through the use of screenshots, tutorials, creative jumping-off points, and real world examples, this book fully explores the application and will teach you how to how to use GarageBand to learn how to play instruments, compose and record music, publish podcasts, create iPhone ring tones, and score your own movies.