Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 SONAR Home Studio Overview and Navigation -- Track View -- Track Types -- Busses -- Transport -- Toolbars -- Splitter Bars -- Zoom -- Help -- Individual Track Options -- Console View -- Console View Layout -- Track Strip (Channel) Controls -- Other Views -- Navigation -- The Time Ruler and Now Time -- Navigating with Markers -- Key Bindings -- Chapter 2 Recording Audio and MIDI -- Setting Up the Metronome -- Recording Audio -- Recording MIDI -- Chapter 3 Clip Editing in Track View -- Context Menu Clip Editing Options -- Combining (Bouncing) Audio or MIDI Clips within a Track -- Combining (Bouncing) Audio or MIDI Clips to a Separate Track -- Quick Clip Edits -- Clip Properties -- General Tab -- Audio Stretching Tab -- Audio Files Tab -- Chapter 4 Snapping and Grids -- Showing Vertical Grid Rules -- Defining a Grid -- Snapping Controllers -- Snapping Rules When Snap to Grid Is Turned Off -- Chapter 5 Editing with the Process Menu -- Audio-Only Process Menu Functions -- Gain -- Normalize -- Remove DC Offset -- Reverse -- Fade Selected Clips -- Conventional Crossfades -- Apply Audio Effects -- Audio FX -- Process Menu Functions for Audio or MIDI -- About Quantization -- Quantize -- Slide -- Nudge -- Length -- MIDI-Only Process Menu Functions -- Apply MIDI Effects -- MIDI FX -- Deglitch -- Chapter 6 MIDI Basics -- How MIDI Recording Works -- Advantages of Recording MIDI Data Instead of Audio -- The MIDI Language -- MIDI Ports -- Program Changes -- MIDI Controllers: The Key to Greater Expressiveness -- MIDI and Tempo -- MIDI inside the Computer -- Chapter 7 Piano Roll View MIDI Editing -- Piano Roll View Basics -- Choosing the Track You Want to See -- Choosing the Track Data You Want to See -- Adding Note and Controller Data -- Editing Note Parameters -- Controller Lanes -- PRV Mode: Inline Piano Roll View.

PRV Tool Configuration -- Chapter 8 MIDI Drum Grid Editing -- Drum Grid Basics -- Drum Map Manager Basics -- Working with the DMM -- Creating Drum Maps from Scratch -- The Drum Grid: Going Deeper -- Painting Drum Notes in the Drum Grid -- Creating Your Own Brush Patterns -- Chapter 9 Other MIDI Editing Options -- Event List View Basics -- Showing/Hiding Events -- Other Event List Toolbar Buttons -- Identifying Notes Easily -- Staff View Basics -- Staff View Upper Toolbar -- Staff View Lower Toolbar -- Staff View Tablature -- ''MIDI Guitar'' for Starving Musicians -- Entering Lyrics in Staff View -- Chapter 10 The Step Sequencer -- About SONAR Home Studio's Step Sequencer -- Adjusting Velocity -- Additional Controls -- Step Sequencer Groove Clip versus Notes -- Unlinking Step Sequencer Clips -- Piano Roll Editing with the Step Sequencer -- Considerations for Melodic Parts -- Musical Applications -- Step-by-Step: Step Sequencing a Drum Part -- Chapter 11 MIDI Plug-Ins -- SONAR Home Studio's Roster of Plug-Ins -- Arpeggiator -- Chord Analyzer -- Echo Delay -- MIDI Event Filter -- Quantize -- Transpose -- Velocity -- Using Plug-Ins to Auto-Correct MIDI Tricks -- For Those Who Play Only in C -- For Those Who Can't Play in C, Period -- And If You Can't Play in Key, in a Scale, or to a Rhythm -- Velocity Fixes -- Proofreading Your Sequence -- Saving Often-Used Settings as Presets -- Creating Keyboard Splits -- Chapter 12 Backing Up Data with System Exclusive Messages -- What System Exclusive Is and How It Works -- Sending SysEx from within a Track -- Chapter 13 Software Synthesizers -- Soft Synth Tradeoffs -- About Latency -- Inserting Soft Synths -- Create These Tracks Options -- Open These Windows Options -- Other Options -- The Synth Rack View -- The Synth Rack Toolbar -- Rack Controls -- Controller Assignments.

Controller Assignment Right-Click Control Options -- Step-by-Step: Creating a Single Track Instrument -- SONAR Home Studio's Instruments -- Soft Synth Shortcuts -- Finding Synth Patches -- TTS-1 General MIDI Synthesizer -- DropZone -- Dimension LE -- Square I -- Roland Groove Synth -- Studio Instruments -- Conserving CPU Power with Software Instruments -- Archiving Virtual Instrument Tracks -- Chapter 14 Track Freezing -- How to Freeze -- Freeze Options -- Editing Frozen Tracks -- Chapter 15 The ReWire Connection -- Opening a ReWire Application -- Step-by-Step: Using Reason as a Synth Rack for SONAR Home Studio -- Recording Real-Time ReWire Controller Edits -- Step-by-Step: Using SONAR Home Studio's Step Sequencer with Reason's ReDrum -- Saving a ReWired Project -- Chapter 16 Mixing with SONAR Home Studio's Console View -- Feel or Perfection? -- Challenges Facing the Solo Artist -- The Radio Factor -- Try It Live -- Avoid the "Cleverness Factor" -- Consider Your Goals -- About Frequency Response, Hearing, and Monitoring -- Monitoring and Acoustics -- SONAR Home Studio's Console View -- The Mixing Process -- Before You Mix -- The Arrangement -- Twelve Steps to a Great Mix -- Step 1: Mental Preparation and Organization -- Step 2: Review the Tracks -- Step 3: Put on Headphones and Listen for Glitches -- Step 4: Render Soft Synths as Audio Tracks -- Step 5: Set Up a Relative Level Balance among the Tracks -- Step 6: Adjust Equalization (EQ) -- Step 7: Add Any Essential Signal Processing -- Step 8: Create a Stereo Soundstage -- Step 9: Make Any Final Changes to the Arrangement -- Step 10: The Audio Architect -- Step 11: Tweak, Tweak, and Retweak -- Step 12: Know When It's Time to Quit! -- Chapter 17 Using Signal Processors and Busses -- Plug-In Basics -- The Three Places to Insert Effects -- Track (Channel) Insert Effects -- Using Insert Effects.

Send Effects -- Master Effects -- Insert Effects Tips -- Chapter 18 SONAR Home Studio's Plug-Ins -- The Common Plug-In ''Header'' -- Selecting Presets -- Save Presets -- Delete Presets -- Other Header Buttons -- Equalizer Plug-Ins -- Sonitus fx:Equalizer -- Para-Q -- Equalization Tips and Techniques -- Other Included Audio Plug-Ins -- Alias Factor -- Amp Sim -- Classic Phaser -- Compressor/Gate -- FX2 Tape Sim -- HF Exciter -- Modfilter -- Chorus/Flanger -- Pitch Shifter -- PowerStrip -- Studioverb II -- Stereo Delay (Tempo Delay) -- Boost 11 -- Sonitus fx:Reverb -- VGA Plus Virtual Guitar Amp -- Managing Effects and Plug-Ins with the Plug-In Manager -- Speed Up Startup -- Chapter 19 Automation in SONAR Home Studio -- The Four Ways to Automate in SONAR Home Studio -- Method One: Move Onscreen Controls in Real Time While Recording the Moves as Automation -- Method Two: Draw Envelopes or Modify Existing Ones -- Method Three: Recording Automation Data from an External MIDI Control Box -- Method Four: Snapshot Automation -- Chapter 20 Control Surfaces -- Hardware Controller Basics -- Types of Hardware Controllers -- Adding a Controller to SONAR Home Studio -- Step-by-Step: Adding Mackie Control to SONAR Home Studio -- Step-by-Step: Using the Behringer BCF2000 with SONAR -- MIDI Remote Options -- Using Control Surfaces -- Chapter 21 ACT: The Key to Hands-On Control -- How ACT Works: Under the Hood -- Getting Your ACT Together -- The Fun Part: Making the Controllers Wiggle -- Using ACT with Effects -- Chapter 22 Groove Clips -- How Time Stretching Works -- Bringing Loops into SONAR Home Studio -- The Loop Explorer -- Loop Explorer: Multitrack Mode -- Converting a Standard Clip to a Groove Clip -- Tweaking Audio Groove Clips -- Groove Clip Pitch Following -- Establishing the Project Pitch -- Defining a Groove Clip's Pitch Parameters.

Insert Pitch Changes into the Tune -- Establishing the Root Pitch within the Loop Construction Window -- Step-by-Step: Creating a Loop -- Saving Groove Clips -- MIDI Groove Clips -- Advanced Looping Techniques -- Gain, Pan, and Pitch Envelopes -- Creating Truly Bizarre Loops -- When Loops Show Up in the Wrong Place -- Retrograde Groove Clips -- Even More Groove Tips! -- Chapter 23 Recording Guitar with SONAR Home Studio -- Old School/Nu Skool Recording -- Recording Directly into the Computer -- SONAR Home Studio's Bundled Guitar Goodies -- Monitoring through SONAR Home Studio -- VGA+ (Virtual Guitar Amp Plus) -- Step-by-Step: Creating a ''Guitar Rack'' Track Template -- Re-Amping with SONAR Home Studio -- Chapter 24 Songwriting with SONAR Home Studio -- The MIDI Quick Start -- Template Files -- Workstation Synth -- To MIDI File or Not to MIDI File? -- Track Templates -- Final Considerations -- Chapter 25 Creating Beats -- We Got the Beat -- Tweak the Seq -- From Beat to Rhythm Track -- Send in the Audio -- Step-by-Step: Adding Automation to an Effect -- Chapter 26 Recording Bass with SONAR Home Studio -- Using the Chromatic Tuner with Bass -- Parallel Effects -- Crunching the Bass -- Track Template for Bass -- Drag and Drop -- Cut and Paste -- Chapter 27 Creating Loop-Based Music with SONAR Home Studio -- Collect and Audition the Loops -- Going Native -- Auditioning REX Files -- Preventing Loop Boredom -- Tempo Changes -- Pitch Changes -- Loop Chopping -- Arranging -- Final Thoughts -- Chapter 28 Combining Audio and Video with SONAR Home Studio -- Step 1: Import Video -- Step 2: Recompress the Video -- Step 3: Display the Video -- Step 4: Work with the Video Track -- Step 5: Create the Soundtrack -- Step 6: Export the Finished Project -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U.

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