Ableton Live 8 Power!|Jon Margulies 9781598639759

||boek: Ableton Live 8 Power!|The Comprehensive Guide|Cengage Learning

||door: Jon Margulies

||taal: en
||jaar: 2010
||druk: ?
||pag.: 413p
||opm.: paperback|like new

||isbn: 978-1-59863-975-9
||code: 1:001428

--- Over het boek (foto 1): Ableton Live 8 Power! ---

Ableton Live 8 Power! is the all-inclusive guide to making music with Ableton's revolutionary live performance and studio software, Live 8. Written for all Live users, from digital audio beginners to seasoned pros, this book explores each fundamental feature in Live. The book provides power-user tips and insider tricks for integrating Ableton Live into your home or professional studio. But Live's in-studio capabilities are just the beginning. Every last feature, button, fader, instrument, and effect in Live 8 was also designed with the live performer in mind. Ableton Live 8 Power! is a book written for musicians by a musician who uses and teaches the software on a daily basis. Whether you use Live for producing, composing, DJing, or film and television, Ableton Live 8 Power! will help you put the fun back into making music with computers, while taking your music to the next level.

[source: https--www.amazon.com]

Good book, let down by poor tutorials. Not for beginners [2011-07-09]

Probably the most comprehensive guide to Ableton Live 8 that you'll find. I've learned a lot about Ableton having read this book from cover to cover but, if I'm absolutely honest (and without taking anything away from the other Amazon reviews), having read many similar guides on other Digital Audio Workstations, this book could be much, much better and the tutorials are an absolute waste of time.

1) This book is NOT for beginners. I'm not a beginner but can imagine beginners struggling with some of the terminology that this book uses and the acute lack of detailed explanation in some cases. For example, the author makes no excuses for not explaining the basics of subtractive synthesis (THE most popular type of synthesis used in software synthesizers) and therefore, if you're not clued up on sythesizers then you're really going to struggle to get your head around Ableton's "Operator" synth. This surprised me somewhat because I recently read the 'Reason 5 Power!' guide (which covers Propellerhead's Reason production software) which is published by the same company (Course Technology Cengage Learning) and is a great foundation for anyone who is just getting into music production as it covers the basics very well whilst successfully tackling advanced topics too.

2) The tutorials and accopanying project files in this book are nothing short of AWFUL. I really hope that the author and publisher read this and take note... The best way readers can learn is through doing. The easiest way to alienate your readers is by blinding them with large chunks of uninvolving text. This book falls firmly under the latter description and I genuinely wonder who gave the green light for it to be printed.

100 pages in, I realised I hadn't come across a single tutorial. And when one finally does come along (and there are only approximately 10-15 hands on tutorials in this FOUR HUNDRED page book) it's ruined either because of a lack of explanation (in the worst case the project file is merely referenced in passing at the end of the chapter without any attempt to involve the reader) or because the accompanying project file is missing associated media files which means the project doesn't work properly OR the referenced project file is simply missing in its entirety!

Further to this, you have to locate and download the project files from the publisher's website. It's a nice idea, except I know that this publisher has a very bad habit of screwing this up (from past experience with Reason 5 Power!, published by the same company, the project files hadn't even been uploaded to the website!). On first download, it appears as if someone has forgotten to include half the files, or perhaps some of them are corrupt. Either way, I have no way of verifying whether or not this is the case because the book does such a bad job of referencing them anyway.

If you want to see how a great Digital Audio Workstation guide should be written, try getting a copy of Apple's Certified training guide to Logic Pro.

In all fairness I'm being extremely hard on the author. And in his defence, he does claim early on that this book is a COMPANION to Ableton's great built in tutorials (despite the book's misleading title; "Ableton Live Power! The COMPREHENSIVE Guide"). Undoubtedly a lot of time and effort was spent producing the book which, for the most part, is a great guide for those who want to get to grips with Ableton Live, assuming that they have some prior knowledge of music production. It's just a shame that it's let down badly by utterly useless and downright angering tutorials.

Ultimately though, you have to look beyond this. You learn to become a good producer through trial, error and experimentation and not through a perfectly crafted guide book or great companion tutorials. Reading this book will give you the tools to begin that journey. As it states boldy on its first page, it was written for "music makers and dreamers of dreams. You know who you are."

End of.

Jazzy Jeff [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Essential Companion to Ableton Live 8 Software [2011-03-18]

This is a very good book for anyone who uses Ableton Live 8, be they musician, D.J. or budding record production engineer. It is easy to follow and well structured and there is something here for everyone from absolute beginner to consumate professional.

Far superior to the manual which comes with the software.

It is easy to follow and well laid out with excellent diagrams to support each of the topics.

Brilliant!

Tripod [source: https--www.amazon.com]

save your money and read the Manual instead [2013-03-02]

No offence intended to the author but the Manual is actually much more useful and practical than this book which is written in a hyped-up style geared towards people who apparently need that sort of thing in their creativity ( was certainly sucked in by it) So sorry but this book looks like a cool read but actually offers a disappointing amount of real useful technical information. Read the Ableton Live Manual and feel the real "power" instead is my feedback.

Pin Rada [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Ableton [2014-07-08]

This is an excellent book which sets out in a simple way how to get started with Abelton 8.

Lazarro [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Great manual [2013-02-26]

As a relative novice to this area I found this book extremely helpful - particularly compared to the manual that comes with the software

J V Havill [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Reasonable Intro to the more dense official User Manual [2010-03-26]

I bought this book when I bought Ableon Live 8 Suite, and I had never used the software before. I read a lot of technical texts -- mostly software / computer texts, and I am just now getting into DAW stuff for fun. The book is more like a slimmed down version of the very large official Ableton User Manual PDF. It is more readable, and more narrative than the PDF, but not really by all that much.

It follows a particular style for technical texts that I don't care for much, which is to have chapters that just describe each function/feature of the software in a linear fashion. It doesn't promote learning all that well, b/c you tend to get bored just reading about feature after feature without being more interactive. It has available some live sets that you can download and there are a few areas in the book where it prompts you to try things, but not many.

By comparison, I also have the book Reason 4 Ignite by Matt Piper (also Cengage Learning), and it takes a completely different approach. Each chapter in that book has you start with blank instrument and work through a short lesson. This style I found much more engaging, and I learn the software so much faster.

With the Ableton Power book, I feel like I've learned enough about the software now by playing with it, that the book doesn't really provide much of a reference for me anymore, as I'll probably just go straight to the PDF User Manual. Your mileage may vary.

Amazon Customer [source: https--www.amazon.co.uk]

--- Over (foto 2): Jon Margulies ---

Jon Margulies has been teaching and creating training materials for Ableton Live since 2005. His years of real-world experience in the studio and the classroom have given him a unique understanding of how musicians learn and use Live. Also active as a producer, engineer, and performer, he's appeared at festivals such as Coachella, SXSW, Winter Music Conference, and Burning Man. When he's not helping people become better producers, he makes music with his band Tiny Machines and works as a mixing and mastering engineer at his studio, Hobo Technologies.

[source: https--www.amazon.com]

Jon Margulies is a producer and performing artist who has been called the "Mr. Miyagi" of Ableton Live. A professional musician and computer wizard, Margulies has performed as "Hobotech" at festivals such as Coachella, SXSW, Winter Music Conference, and Burning Man. He is the author of Ableton Live 7 Power! and Ableton Live 8 Power!, and the co-author of Your Ableton Live Studio. Visit hobo-tech.com for Jon's latest Ableton Live tips and music downloads.

[source: https--www.amazon.co.uk]

Producer Jon Margulies is the man behind Hobotech, songwriter/instigator of @tinymachines, and is one of the world's best known Ableton Live experts . Since it's fireside conception in 2007, Hobotech has steadily grown in popularity, with Jon's recent schedule including an appearance at Coachella, an opening set for Bassnectar with collaborator Haj (Sub Swara), and shows which have found him sharing the stage with luminaries of bass music including ill.Gates, David Starfire and AN-TEN-NAE.

The EP "This Is The Place" was described as "like George Clinton meets Datsik" on BassGeneration.com: BassGeneration.com, and was included as a featured download in the 2010 wrapup newsletter from TheUntz.com.

Hobotech is the sound of ozark mountain futurefunk, dirty electro gospel, and glitched out whomp crashing into delta blues. Hobotech is a place where Tom Waits wreck subwoofers and Ralph Stanley gets his crunk on. It's contemporary music that nods to a forgotten America, celebrating half-smoked cigars and railside cauldrons of stew.

Jon is the author of Ableton Live Power!, co-author of Your Ableton Live Studio with Chris Buono, and has written numerous articles for Music Tech magazine. He presents classes and workshops around the country, teaches for cutting-edge music school Dubspot and is an Adjunct Instructor at New York University. In 2010 he created the ambitious project "365 Live Tips" in which he published one Live tip for each day of the year on his website, jonmargulies.com

[source: https--soundcloud.com/jonmargulies]