Backbeat Books Publishes New Title on Loop-Based Music Production
 August 19, 2004
Backbeat Books' newest addition to the Power Tools
series, Power Tools: Software for Loop Music, explores the creative and technical
aspects of loop-based composition, helping musicians to master this
form.
An opening chapter of this essential guide serves as a sampling primer,
explaining elements of sound quality, common sampling pitfalls, editing
techniques, and loop arrangement tools. Once readers are up to speed, they will
gain vital information on the most popular software tools and techniques such as
audio engineering, sampling, sound design, mixing, and live performance. Every
chapter offers tips and tricks that professionals use to make the most of their
loop libraries, and there's an indispensable section on the legal aspects of
sampling that explains the process of licensing existing recordings
step-by-step.
Readers can apply these lessons immediately with the included CD-ROM, which
contains demo and lite software versions of many of the tools discussed (in both
Mac OS and Windows versions). As a bonus, the CD-ROM also offers over 250
megabytes of license- and royalty-free loops and samples in a variety of musical
styles sure to get music manipulators' creative juices flowing and their music
looping.
The author, remixer and composer Francis Preve, is an expert in
synthesis, engineering, and production. A contributing editor for Keyboard
magazine since 2000, he has also written for EQ, Electronic Musician, and Music
and Computers.
Price: $24.95, ISBN: 0-87930-800-1.
For more information, visit their web site at www.backbeatbooks.com. |
