The manual may tell you how your sequencer works, but Sequencer Secrets goes beyond any manual. In this concise, creative and intensely practical book, Ian Waugh explains how you can get the best from any software sequencer.

It contains a collection of hints and tips acquired over many years of experience with a wide range of software sequencers. It explains how to master functions you may have previously ignored, how to use short cuts to speed up your work, and how to turn your sequencer from a recording tool into a creative music machine.

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Overview

• Essential hints
  
• 29 hands on projects
  
• Use the full potential of your sequencer
  
• Suitable for all software sequencers
  
• Timesaving tips
  
• Become a power user
• Section on troubleshooting
• Leading UK author

Über den Author

Ian Waugh is one of the UK's leading hi tech computer and music writers with over 1000 articles and several books and albums to his name.

Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie man:

Optimise your MIDI system
Create MIDI echoes
Create instant harmonies
Humanise your drum patterns
Use MIDI controllers effectively
Use quantisation more effectively
Create realistic instrument parts
Program gate effects
Use sequences live

A troubleshooting section helps you track down MIDI anomalies like double notes, volume dropouts, stuck notes and instruments going out of tune.

An indispensable book for sequencer users at all levels

Introduction
Setting up your system
Working practices
Ghost tracks
Handling controllers
Quantisation
Tempo tricks
Transposition
Delaying tactics
Drum pattern programming
More expressive music
Composition
Keyboard tips
Guitar tips
Sequencing live
Files
Troubleshooting
MIDI files disk
Contacts
GM data

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