Digital Audio Workstation

With this book and a little imagination, any musician or hobbyist can create professional music on their desktop. Written by a renowned digital music expert, this book teaches the complete digital audio workstation process, from outfitting a computer with necessary hardware and software, recording with the proper microphones, using DAW power to create perfectly modulated mixes, to finally mastering down into a completely professional finished product. * Mix, record, and master any type of music on a PC or Mac * Complete guide to every major audio file format * How to turn your computer into a Digital Audio Workstation * Key plug-ins and hardware * Mixing on a digital audio workstation * Soundtracking digital video on a digital audio workstation

Colby N. Leider is a noted composer, inventor of audio control equipment, instrument builder, and one of the world's leading authorities on digital audio workstations. With degrees in electroacoustic music and music composition from Princeton and Dartmouth, he currently teaches at the University of Miami, Florida, as an Assistant Professor of Music Engineering. Leider also holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. A leading figure in digital music, he has presented compositions throughout the world, written numerous articles and papers, and presented research on a variety of digital audio topics at leading professional gatherings.