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Digidesign's Official Pro Tools 101 Courseware takes a comprehensive approach to learning the fundamentals of Pro Tools-HD, Pro Tools LE, or Pro Tools M-Powered systems. Now updated for Pro Tools 8 software, this new edition from the definitive authority on Pro Tools covers everything you need to know to complete a Pro Tools project. Learn to build sessions that include mu...more

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Published January 21st 2009 by Course Technology (first published January 1st 2009)

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Aug 29, 2009 Caitlin rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Beginner Pro Tools users or those wanting a refresher/reference for basic concepts

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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.

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. Issue 1 was that while there's a bunch of PT8 books available...more 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.

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. 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. So I zoomed off to Foyles' to see what they had. 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. 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 started reading it on the train home, to jog my memory of sessions and tracks and so on... 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. 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. 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. 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).

The only negative points are minor ones: A relatively huge chunk of the start of the book seems to be promo - talking about the Pro Tools certification courses and the history of the product, and it's a little annoying how something will be mentioned and then followed up with "This is covered in Pro Tools 110" (which is a course, not a book - I believe 101 is the only Pro Tools official courseware book that is available without paying for a course) - but even that has a plus side, because once they've mentioned something about, say, dithering, it means you know what to go and look up in reference or on the web or in another book, if you want, so don't be put off by these down points - when you actually get to the real content in the book, it's great.

The book comes with a DVD of training videos. I had a quick look at these, especially the one on the score editor, which I was disappointed to find was more marketing fluff than a proper video tutorial. There are some other videos in there on more particular concepts which look more useful... but unfortunately not on points I have need of right now.(less)

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