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PC Music: The Easy Guide
Product Group: Book
Publisher: PC Publishing (2002-01-31)
ISBN: 1870775767
EAN: 9781870775762
Dewy Decimal #: 794
Paperback: 176 pages
Edition: 2Rev Ed
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Customer Reviews
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Excellent introduction
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-03-08
I am an IT professional but a semi-beginner in electronic music (I've previously recorded MIDI output from my keyboard into Cakewalk but that was it). This is an extremely well written book (with an amusing quirky style) that tells you what you need to know to understand what you need to get to do what you want.
Perhaps because I am a slightly older reader with a set idea of what "soundcards" are and what "synthesisers" are, for example, it was very useful to know exactly what it is that I need to buy to meet my needs (in my case, recording electric guitar, MIDI keyboard and vocals multi-track with a tweakable auto drum track). I was also pleased to discover that because of the long gap in my musical aspirations I really don't need to find out what a sequencer is or ponder deeply the difference between analogue and digital synthisisers (etc) because it can now all be done in affordable (sometimes free) software on a suitably-specced PC. Which is nice.
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Excellent for newcomers
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-09-15
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am neither a novice with music or P.C.'s however I was very much a novice at making music on my P.C. This book showed me how to go about it.
The information is logically explained in an informal manner which I found very easy to read. There are helpful diagrams and a very useful product appendix for when you feel you are ready to upgrade your hardware and software. I also found the e-mail advice provided by the author about what equipment I should start off with very useful too.
Note for all you experts out there, this is PC Music - the EASY guide, it isn't meant to go into a lot of depth and tricky techy stuff. It was pitched at the right level for me and it will be suitable for any other newcomers to making music with their P.C.
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PC Music
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-01-30
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a complete begginer in the world of computer music I found this book to be very helpfull. Several of the other books I have read jump into too quick and forget that some of us don't have the benefit of college courses or know other people that have an understanding of this complex subject. This book on the other hand does an excellent job of explaining PC music in a clear way.Ok so there's no examples, but thats not what I wanted. I personally found this extremely clear and exactly what I was after i.e. a basic introduction into the world of PC music. Yes the style of writing can be a bit 'down the pub like', but I think that adds to the charm of such a well laid out book. If you are completely new to this subject I would suggest buying this book as it will give you the basic ideas about sequencers and samplers etc. Then of course you can move onto the more in depth publications. The title say 'The Easy Guide' and that's what the author Robin Vincent has sucessfully achieved.
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Review - PC Music: The Easy Guide
Rating  (4)
Date: 2003-01-28
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I found this book very helpful, useful and informative. It isn't aimed at experts, but it is a good introduction for those who know a little about music and PC's.
The authors approach is clear, informative, and helpful, but not at all patronising. I am fairly experienced with both PC's and music and still found it useful. For example it taught me how to properly set up and organise my computers soundcards.
It is true that perhaps a few tutorials would be beneficial, and a second book for the more advanced. There isn't, for example, a particularly good section on using sampling for music production, which was one of the areas I'm interested in. It only gives some insight into the software that can do this, which is useful, but not really enough for me. However, overall I found this book well written.
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PC Music : no guide
Rating  (1)
Date: 2003-01-12
3 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is the only book I have ever bought which has no redeeming features. I only gave it one star because the review process does not allow me to give it none.The style of writing is irritating in an 'all mates down the pub and I am the local know all' manner. The information presented is at the level of an introductory series of articles in a non computing magazine. Do not buy this book under the impression that you will be any more able to use the hardware you already have or the software which was on the cover CD on the last magazine you bought. There is nothing by way of tutorial material. There are no examples. If you or a member of your family have a school project to complete on computer music then you could simply copy this book - but you probably have all the information already and I doubt if the style of writing would be acceptable.
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