At any rate, it's been a great refresher and introduction, and I can see it being an excellent reference book for basic stuff (note that it has no aspirations to any advanced concepts - Digidesign want to push you towards their training courses for that). I've read about half the book now, and plan to work on the projects at the back of the book once my own project is actually finished. If I looked something up that wasn't in the index, then generally it was in the reference document that's accessible from the PT Help menu, and between these two I was up and sailing along in a couple of days. and basically it's been so helpful that I never got around to using the Collins at all and in the end took it back to the shop. I started reading it on the train home, to jog my memory of sessions and tracks and so on. Anyway, so this book was bought as a backup and I was concerned that the style might be a bit dry and the whole thing might be unreadable. I ended up buying Mike Collins' 'Pro Tools 8: Music Production, Recording, Editing and Mixing', mostly because it looked pretty thorough and actually had a whole section on the Score Editor (the other books seemed to be saying "Gee! There's a score editor" and then plugging right on with telling you how to edit MIDI data in the piano roll - NOT helpful for a classical musician who wants to know all there is to know about using real notes in Pro Tools), and got this one as a backup because the Collins is firstly aimed at PTHD users (although it says it should be fine for LE, but I wanted a cross-reference) and secondly is more for the user who doesn't need the basics, whereas I felt a reference for basic editing stuff couldn't hurt. So I zoomed off to Foyles' to see what they had. Issue 1 was that while there's a bunch of PT8 books available to pre-order on Amazon, there's barely anything available Right Now. I had to bolt out to buy a book on PTLE8 in a hurry last week because I suddenly discovered that I needed the new version of the software (which I'd barely used at all in 5 years) for a project which was due at the end of the week. Summary: A fantastic book for the beginner-Pro Tools user or early-stage user wanting a refresher course, comprising explanation of features for the main part of the book, plus hands-on projects at the end.
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