![]() At any rate, it's been a great refresher and introduction, and I can see it being an excellent reference book for basic stuff (note that it has no aspirations to any advanced concepts - Digidesign want to push you towards their training courses for that). ![]() I've read about half the book now, and plan to work on the projects at the back of the book once my own project is actually finished. If I looked something up that wasn't in the index, then generally it was in the reference document that's accessible from the PT Help menu, and between these two I was up and sailing along in a couple of days. and basically it's been so helpful that I never got around to using the Collins at all and in the end took it back to the shop. I started reading it on the train home, to jog my memory of sessions and tracks and so on. ![]() Anyway, so this book was bought as a backup and I was concerned that the style might be a bit dry and the whole thing might be unreadable. I ended up buying Mike Collins' 'Pro Tools 8: Music Production, Recording, Editing and Mixing', mostly because it looked pretty thorough and actually had a whole section on the Score Editor (the other books seemed to be saying "Gee! There's a score editor" and then plugging right on with telling you how to edit MIDI data in the piano roll - NOT helpful for a classical musician who wants to know all there is to know about using real notes in Pro Tools), and got this one as a backup because the Collins is firstly aimed at PTHD users (although it says it should be fine for LE, but I wanted a cross-reference) and secondly is more for the user who doesn't need the basics, whereas I felt a reference for basic editing stuff couldn't hurt. So I zoomed off to Foyles' to see what they had. ![]() Issue 1 was that while there's a bunch of PT8 books available to pre-order on Amazon, there's barely anything available Right Now. I had to bolt out to buy a book on PTLE8 in a hurry last week because I suddenly discovered that I needed the new version of the software (which I'd barely used at all in 5 years) for a project which was due at the end of the week. Summary: A fantastic book for the beginner-Pro Tools user or early-stage user wanting a refresher course, comprising explanation of features for the main part of the book, plus hands-on projects at the end. ![]()
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