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Audio Engineering 101, Second Edition is a real world guide for starting out in the recording industry. If you have the dream, the ideas, the music and the creativity but don't know where to start, then this book is for you!

Filled with practical advice on how to navigate the recording world, from an author with first-hand, real-life experience, Audio Engineering 101, Second Edition will help you succeed in the exciting, but tough and confusing, music industry.

This series, Perspectives On Music Production, collects detailed and experientially informed considerations of record production from a multitude of perspectives, by authors working in a wide array of academic, creative, and professional contexts. We solicit the perspectives of scholars of every disciplinary stripe, alongside recordists and recording musicians themselves, to provide a fully comprehensive analytic point-of-view on each component stage of record production.

Music Rights Unveiled provides an inside look at the complex world of music rights for film and video and includes step-by-step guidance to navigate these tricky waters. Authors Brooke Wentz and Maryam Battaglia share their decades of expertise in this user-friendly guide, designed specifically with filmmakers and producers in mind. The book provides a brief history of the pricing of music in film, television and digital media markets, and explains the process by which music is licensed or acquired for films, highlighting pitfalls to avoid and strategies for success.

Proudly presented by Akai Pro and MVP Loops, this expansion pack brings the eclectic genre-blending sound of modern EDM and Future Trap to your MPC. This electrifying pack delivers 15 club-ready kits filled with big synths, build-ups, one-shots, creative melodic ideas and drops just in time for festival season.

Akai Pro & MVP Loops proudly present The Vault, now available as an MPC Expansion pack. This gigantic pack features a wealth of world-class sounds, tailor made for the MPC. The Vault delivers over 5.8 GB of radio-ready content, including 248 MPC kits and more than 8000 samples covering Trap, hip hop, EDM, R&B, acoustic and beyond. Additionally, there are nearly 400 melodic patterns to instantly fuel that creative spark. Crack open The Vault and unleash these supreme sounds on your MPC today!

Learn how to craft cinematic pads, epic chord progressions and punchy basses, and master advanced sound design techniques employed by ArtFX while he attempts to beat our challenge.

Start crafting Future Bass masterpieces in Logic Pro! Acclaimed DJ and producer David Heartbreak shows in this course how to put together a mind-blowing Future Bass track from start to finish, sharing his expertise on topics such as music theory, sound design, arrangement, mixing and mastering.

Gilisoft Audio Converter Ripper is must-have software for people who cannot imagine their life without digital music. It combines a powerful audio converter and handy CD ripper in one useful program. Convert audio free between formats. Over 40 audio formats supported! Convert WMA to MP3, MP3 to M4A, WAV to MP3, MP3 to WMA, FLAC to MP3, AAC to MP3, M4A to MP3, OGG to MP3, APE to MP3.

élastiqueAAX is zplane’s time and pitch manipulation plugin for Pro Tools. It uses the élastiquePro V3 time-stretching and pitch shifting engine which is integrated in numerous DAWs and satisfies millions of users around the world. This ensures the highest, program independent time-stretching/pitch-shifting quality.

Akai Professional proudly brings to you Tim Kelley Presents Vol. 1, the newest Producer Series Expansion Pack for your MPC. Representing half of the production duo Tim and Bob, Tim has crafted a Grammy-winning sound showcased on countless R'n'B and hip-hop hits from the last two decades. Over the years, Tim and Bob have produced hits for a crazy list of R'n'B, pop and hip-hop royalty including Michael Jackson, Chris Brown, Busta Rhymes, TLC, Beyonce to name a few.

Akai Pro & MVP Loops proudly present an incredible new MPC Expansion Pack, Urban Roulette. Developed exclusively from the ground-up by the world-renowned sound development team at MVP Loops, whose sounds can be heard all over many of today’s chart-topping singles.

Akai Pro & Producer/Grammy-nominated Sound Designer Snipe Young proudly present Dark Parallax, the newest Expansion Pack for MPC. Snipe’s stellar work can be heard on recent smash-hit records including Beyonce’s Lemonade, Dr. Dre’s Compton, Documentary 2 by The Game and Justin Beiber’s Purpose. Dark Parallax delivers the elite-level sounds featured on these chart-toppers while also incorporating the haunting atmospherics found on the newest trap, hip-hop and Contemporary R&B tracks.

Akai Professional & RAWCUTZ presents a brand-new collection of outstanding Hip-Hop sounds bringing the real essence of the genre to your MPC. For the uninitiated, Raw Cutz are a prolific duo responsible for some of highest quality hip hop sample content available. This Expansion features loosely quantized rhythms, rich warm pads, sub-heavy basslines, soulful chops & stabs, and some of the best sampled drum hits delivering inspiration on all levels, all royalty free and ready to drop into your MPC.

‘Hybrid Methods’ is the futuristic fusion of dubstep and trap, built by seasoned producer Michael White. This pack is full of fleshy basslines, chunky synths, mesmerising effects and steroid induced beats, key marked and set to 150 bpm, ready for your production.

Blues, jazz, and funk solos are usually improvised. Top players almost never play the same exact solo over a particular tune or groove. However, they might tap their own vocabulary of licks and use those licks in their improvised solos. Sometimes, they'll even build their solos around those licks. I'll show you how to do that in this course.