This Apple-authorized guide delivers hard-to-find music composition and production techniques in Logic Pro 9 - Includes everything you need to learn the intermediate and advanced features of Logic Pro. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of Logic Pro, with hands-on projects to complete as you go. DVD includes lesson and media files for over 20 hours of training. Author David Dvorin is one of the world's foremost Logic experts. In this Apple-certified guide, author David Dvorin demonstrates the powerful advanced features in Logic Pro that have led many of the world's top producers, composers, and engineers to make this program the centerpiece of their music studios. Starting with advanced setup, he teaches you invaluable real-world techniques for music production and editing, mixing, notation and scoring to picture with Logic. Along the way, he shares numerous professional secrets for streamlining production workflows and constructing a mix to meet the most exacting standards. Experienced Logic users and newcomers alike will find invaluable methods for manipulating tempo and pitch, fine-tuning audio and MIDI tracks, processing MIDI data, managing signal flow, assigning physical controllers, and getting the most out of Logic's revolutionary software instruments. A companion DVD includes the lesson and media files needed to complete the book's exercises, plus free trial Logic plug-ins from leading manufacturers. Logic Pro 9 is part of Apple's Logic Studio Suite which retails for $499. (US)