Mastering Digital Audio Production: The Professional Music Workflow with Mac OS X

This comprehensive guide shows you how to integrate a variety of production tools for the Mac OS X platform into all stages of audio production so that you can create and produce music. From single applications to complete suites, you?ll discover the software toolsets that are best for you and then discover how to incorporate them into a coherent workflow. Featuring best practices, real-world examples, and interviews with audio professionals, this book pulls together all the programs and tasks you need.

User review
Good overview of making music with Mac.
Lots of general and introductory information about a wide range of programs and equipment for music production with Mac OS. Coverage is very broad--won't make you an expert at any one element or program.

User review
Great Source!
If your interested in getting into audio production with your Mac, this is a great start. The companion DVD comes with everyting you need to get introduced to digital audio. If can't wrap your head around this book, then I wouldn't waste money on a digital interface (Pro Tools, Motu, M-Audio). I like how it's laid out, good information. Cheers!

User review
out of date already
So the book covers Reason 3, Logic 7.2, Pro Tools (no mention of the Digi 003), Rax, most of it is out of date already - hard to keep up in book form with stuff that changes so rapidly, but not really useful if you use Reason 4, Logic 8, Pro Tools 7.4 etc. I would not recommend it and as a matter of fact I am returning it.

User review
Just what I needed!
This is just an amazing book. I'm still kind of in shock that it even exists. I've been a life long musician, but have never taken the plunge into digital audio. It just seemed like such a big, scary world. Well, it was until I found this book. I don't know how much it would benefit others, but to me, it was a total godsend. I now feel really familiar and comfortable with the entire WORLD of digital audio, not just one program. I now understand plugin formats, virtual instruments, and I also know all sorts of great secrets on where to get them for free, and which freebies are especially awesome. I would have paid triple the price for the knowledge in this book. Thanks to the author for this awesome and needful book.
Speaking of the author, he does a really fine job here. Yes, there are some things I feel were left out, but there's bound to be some stuff missing in a book that undertakes such a massive task, as this one does. Even though I'm not an expert, I feel so much more educated as to why I would want to use Logic vs. Reason vs. Ableton Live vs. Garageband (I've never been interested in Pro Tools, although it's also covered in the book).
Also, to any potential Windows users, this book can also be really beneficial for you as well. You won't have Garageband or Logic, but other than those two chapters (and a little bit of info about customizing the Mac for digital audio production), all this stuff applies to you as well. I'm a recent convert to the Mac platform, and I can use this info on either platform. I also plan on purchasing this book as a gift for some friends of mine on Windows.
This review is just too long, and I apologize. But I'm just so happy with it. Remember that it doesn't get deep. At all. In any regards. But it's just what I needed: a huge, sweeping overview of the entire digital audio world. Thanks again to the author for such a gem!

User review
A serious work
Recently I've seen some digital tutorial and books that make me thinking on a precipitated release. Sure this is not the case.

Ignacio.