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  • 8 March 2006
    SX3 Unleashed: one new tips and tricks
    • Drum quantize
    Total tutorials:
    Cubase SX3 Unleashed: 117
  • 8 March 2006
    HALion 3 Unleashed: one new tips and tricks
    • v3,2 update details
    Total tutorials:
    HALion 3 Unleashed: 42
  • 24 January 2006
    HALion 3 Unleashed
    • Released
  • 18 January 2006
    SX3 Unleashed: four new v3.1 tips and tricks
    • Project
    • MIDI functions
    • Tempo track
    • Pool search
    Total tutorials:
    Cubase SX3 Unleashed: 116
  • 13 December 2005
    Cubase SX Complete
    • Now free

Free Cubase SX Complete product details

From the author of the highly regarded book Making Music with Nuendo comes: Cubase SX Complete.

  • For musicians, song-writers and producers
  • Use Cubase SX creatively to make great music
  • Quick-start section and glossary
  • Takes you from set-up to 2-track master
  • Loads of tips and tricks to save you time
  • Thorough, real-world, hands-on examples
  • Recording and editing audio and MIDI in-depth
  • A detailed practical chapter on latency
  • Dedicated chapter on synchronization and using remote devices
  • Practical intro to score (including drums, guitar tabs and chords)
  • Large traditional index to make things easy to find
  • Every key command (both assigned and unassigned) is listed in a dedicated index that references the text where it is used
  • Many hundreds of cross-references by page number
  • Key commands and full menu references used throughout
  • And tons more...see the full contents list

Cubase SX Complete is written for those seeking to fully exploit the features of Cubase SX (& SL). When creating music - from composition, through recording and editing, to the production of the two-track master - SX Complete describes the techniques for using Cubase SX when making music in your studio.

SX Complete develops beyond the manuals by emphasizing the creative uses of Cubase SX to help you achieve your goal. It is a book for musicians, song-writers and producers, written by a musician/song-writer/producer. Whether weekend hobbyist, aspiring world-beater, or hard-core pro, SX Complete has been written for you.

SX Complete builds on all of the experience and knowledge that went into Making Music with Nuendo, yet gives you a lot more. And all the while it retains the detail necessary for you to achieve mastery of Cubase SX. All designed to help you put the program to creative use.

As well as being a guide, SX Complete is extensively cross-referenced, in a variety of ways. This ensures that it as easy as possible for you to find the information that you need immediately. The intention of this book is to become your studio coffee mat; always by your side - although it is equally at home in the bathroom.

Key commands are referenced throughout the text, not only to assist you in using Cubase SX as efficiently and effectively as possible, but to help etch them into your brain without pain. It is packed with tips and tricks, as well as many gotchas that some might prefer not to mention to you.

Page-numbered cross-referencing is used throughout, linking related topics and furthering you on your path to Cubase wizardry. The text is descriptive, yet encourages you to experiment by providing tips, trick and ideas throughout. Most of these tips and tricks are provided in margin boxes, or highlighted sections, so as not to disturb the detailed descriptions.

About the author:

Marc Cooper (Auxbuss on the Nuendo and cb.net forums) has written and recorded with Nuendo and Cubase SX since their respective releases. He is the author of Making Music with Steinberg Nuendo and writes for Future Music and Computer Music magazines. When not writing, Marc is a song-writer and producer, who uses Nuendo/Cubase SX on an almost daily basis for composing, recording and editing, both music and video productions.

What the customers say...

SX Complete is A+++

Phill Boshers
AudioGram Pro, Nashville TN

Thanks for the book. It is a wealth of information to anyone serious about learning and using Cubase SX.

Don Briggs

SX Complete is an easy read, very well structured and thoroughly cross referenced. It does what it sets out to do extremely well.

The Operations Manual describes what Cubase SX can do. Cubase SX Complete describes how to use it. Those two perspectives are very different.

The Operations Manual focuses on "The zoom operations available are xxxxx and operation A accomplishes this and operation B accomplishes this". The book focuses on "Most people will probably prefer to do A in this way", "I strongly recommend that you take the time to do B because it will save you a lot of time later on" and "Here is a list of the most useful xxx commands".

Cubase SX Complete can be read in 20% of the time it takes to read the Operations Manual and is highly recommended to anyone wanting to use Cubase SX as comprehensively and efficiently as possible. The language is down-to-business and even humorous.

The book is not a DAW beginners' guide. But if you are used to using DAW software then Cubase SX Complete offers to be your friendly even-more-expert-than-yourself guide and teach you the exact things that you need to use the product to it's full potential.

Soren Riis-Vestergaard

And about the Nuendo book...

Conclusion: This is really the business - informative and interesting throughout. easily understandable - and you'll save many hours of confusion and frustration by reading it. Nuendo is a very deep and comprehensive program; with this book you're placed in the best position to get the best out of it from day one.

Music Mart Magazine, September 2002

I have owned Nuendo for years and I still learn something new from this book every time I open it. It's full of helpful tips and advice on how to make Nuendo jump through hoops.

Andrew Smith, Music Producer and Lecturer (music software)

Making Music With Nuendo is a must have when working with this powerful program. Not only does it flesh out the inevitable gaps in the manufacturer's manual, but it gives you a great alternative mind-set for dealing with the huge feature set in Nuendo. It has saved my bacon on more than one occasion.

Jim Smith, Muddy Hole Studios LLC, Martinsburg, WV, USA

Cubase SX3 Unleashed contents

23 chapters and 4 appendices

Preface
Contents
1 Overview
2 Introduction
3 Quick-start
4 What is a Project?
5 Important Set-up Issues
6 The Project Window and Tools
7 The Transport, Markers and Movin’ Around
8 The Project Browser
9 Audio: Understanding Audio objects
10 Tempo and Time Signature
11 The Event Display
12 MIDI: Recording and Editing
13 MIDI Processing
14 Audio: Recording and Editing
15 Audio: The Pool and Clips
16 Audio: Processing and Effects
17 Mixing and Audio Control
18 Automation
19 Synchronization and Remote Control
20 Latency
21 Score: In Brief
22 Project Maintenance and Archiving
23 Recommended Reading and Web-sites
Glossary
Appendices
A Cubase SX’s Plug-ins and VSTi’s
B Key Commands
C Preferences
A MIDI Controllers List Index
SX Complete cover

Prices

  • Cubase SX Complete pricing
    • FREE

 

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review SX Complete

"How can a book be better than the manual? The answer is when it answers problems that come up which the manual never hints at. (In 'manual world' there aren't usually any problems; you do as it says and it always works.) This book lives in the real world giving as much emphasis to problem solving as it does the initial instruction. It also tends to come up with the questions you are thinking about just at the right time."

Rating: 9/10

Andy Jones, Senior Editor

Future Music magazine