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Summary: Save your Money
Review: Save your money buy the "Users' Guide to Propellerhead Reason 2" by Derek Johnson and Debbie Poyser. Even if you know nothing this book will get you going on the road a lot better than this waste of money (sorry still a little bitter).I didn't know much about Reason, but I knew more than this book. This book is too basic even for the most green of neophytes. Believe me.
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Summary: QuickStart is a great start... er, you know what I mean!
Review: The QuickStart series is fantastic. I have several books for web design applications and they're great for getting into the middle of things. They teach you enough to cause a lot of trouble and have fun in the process. Not everyone has time or the patience to read the boring manuals that come with the program. This guide has great screenshots of the application and explanations of how it works and is very cool for anyone who has always wanted to get into making their own computer based music but was intimidated by the expensive and complicated tools of the trade...
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Summary: Free manual is better...
Review: This book is REALLY thin, large print, essentially a very basic guide to Reason. You'd do much better to download the demo of Reason and take a look at the accompanying documentation or simply go to the Propellerheads.se site and read the synopses for each of the tools included in Reason. It might seem complex (there's a lot in it!), but Reason is for the most part very straight forward-- you'll learn everything in the book by playing w/ the free demo in about 5-10 minutes. The only thing you may need to look up is how to output matching MIDI data for the REX files (that's in the docs).
As far as the book goes, I suggest looking at it in person first and get it only if you've got a bit of extra cash in your pocket. My recommendation: Pass on this and use the $[money] toward buying the real app.
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Summary: Free manual is better...
Review: This book is REALLY thin, large print, essentially a very basic guide to Reason. You'd do much better to download the demo of Reason and take a look at the accompanying documentation or simply go to the Propellerheads.se site and read the synopses for each of the tools included in Reason. It might seem complex (there's a lot in it!), but Reason is for the most part very straight forward-- you'll learn everything in the book by playing w/ the free demo in about 5-10 minutes. The only thing you may need to look up is how to output matching MIDI data for the REX files (that's in the docs).
As far as the book goes, I suggest looking at it in person first and get it only if you've got a bit of extra cash in your pocket. My recommendation: Pass on this and use the $[money] toward buying the real app.
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Summary: Major [waste of money]
Review: Under the title of the book it says "The absolute beginner's guide..." Well take that VERY VERY literally. This book does nothing more than walk you through getting your feet wet with Reason. There is nothing here that you wouldn't get by going through the excellent Reason manual. Don't be foold by the promise of videos and samples either. You get 4 videos that tell you close to nothing and I have more fingers than there are samples on the CD. I also bought the Sonar Quick Start book from Wizoo. These books are blatently taking advantage of the fact that there's precious little info on these programs right now. The books are 48 pages with big type and lots of white space. They are the most insulting low content books I've ever seen or purchased. These are the kind of books that make you think twice about buying books online. They don't deserve 1 star, but that's the lowest I could give it.
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