This Producer Pro bundle contains DMD's Digital Performer video training course. It also includes the opportunity to purchase two companion courses, Mixing & Mastering and Digital Producer, at a significant discount from the prices of each course sold separately.

DIGITAL PERFORMER 8

These MOTU Digital Performer tutorials are a complete guide to making music with Digital Performer 8. The Quick Start section features a grand tour of the features and functions in Digital Performer.

The Audio section provides in-depth coverage on audio FX, recording, mixing and mastering using Digital Performer 8.

The Loops & Remix section demonstrates the tools used for audio time stretching and pitch editing, and includes a remix example using looping, chunks and v-racks.

There is a comprehensive section on MIDI which explains setting up Digital Performer 8 to work with Virtual Instruments and hardware MIDI devices as well as recording and editing.

MIXING & MASTERING 4

These mixing and mastering tutorials are a complete guide to digital audio mixing and mastering. It begins with an Overview section introduces the necessary audio engineering concepts. Both the Mixing and Mastering sections are organized into a straightforward framework consisting of 5 elements: Volume, Panning, Dynamics, EQ, and FX.

The tutorials illustrate the principles and concepts of mixing and mastering using a number of examples created in popular pro audio products. Examples in the Mixing section use primarily Pro Tools, Sonar, Logic, and Cubase, and examples in the Mastering section concentrate on Ozone, T-Racks. Audio plug-ins from Waves, PSP Audioware, and Voxengo are also demonstrated.

DIGITAL PRODUCER 3

These Digital Producer tutorials are a complete guide to making music using digital sources–loops, synthesizers, and samplers. They cover a wide variety of musical genres—everything from making beats to creating orchestral tracks.

The Overview and Concepts sections present a brief history of digital music production and the role of the producer as well as providing a foundation of basic audio and MIDI concepts used throughout the course. There are two general sections, Synths & Samplers and Time & Pitch which illustrate the techniques of digital music production. These sections use examples primarily from Native Instruments Absynth and Kontakt as well as Pro Tools Elastic Audio, FL Studio, and Spectrasonics Stylus RMX.

There are four sections which address creating music for specific instrument groups: The Drums section uses examples from FXpansion BFD and GURU as well as Ableton Live Impulse and FL Studio. The Guitar & Bass section focuses on East-West Ministry of Rock, MusicLab RealGuitar, and Spectrasonics Trilian. The Jazz & Orchestra section includes examples from East-West Symphonic Orchestra, Garritan Jazz & Big Band, Synthogy Ivory Grand Pianos, and the Kontakt Vienna Symphonic Library. The Vocals section covers vocal editing and processing using Antares Autotune, Melodyne Celemony and the Waves Vocal Bundle as well addressing such topics as harmony, Vocoders, stutter, and vocal extraction.