The Cubase Sx 20 Instantpro Instructional Dvd

This beginners guide to Cubase SX 2.0 on DVD gets you started making music immediately by providing both a guided tour and a comprehensive "how to" tutorial to put you on your way to recording and mixing professional audio today! Steinberg?s Cubase has been a leading choice among musicians for writing music on both Macintosh and Windows-based computers for over a decade. Now, with CubaseSX 2.0, Steinberg further enhances the virtual studio with tons of new features, plus virtual synths and virtual effects to make your music sound its best. With this DVD, you?ll learn how to set up your audio and MIDI hardware and get your hands around the Cubase SX 2.0 interface.

Berkoff writes in detail about many of the legendary directors and actors he has worked with, including Stanley Kubrick, Sylvester Stallone, Roman Polanski and Joan Collins. This book provides an insight into the vivid and intense experiences that make up Berkoff's often surrealist world.

Fierce Memories is an inspirational account of a young man's life that was forever changed by the civil strife in the small country of Liberia. The author takes you on a journey through the darkness of war and the power of evil. Experience the journey of a man as he is transformed from an innocent college student, to a prisoner of war, to a general for the NPFL, and fi nally to a minister of the gospel and advocate for peace and justice. This engaging story is about the young Ernest Urey and the struggles of living through the Liberian civil war. This tragic time in history left families starving, children homeless, and a country in economic ruin. The story of the inner workings of this uprising has never before been fully told by an individual who was on the inside. For the fi rst time, you can see how greed, corruption, and evil destroyed a small and promising nation and how one man is determined to bring hope, peace, and unity back to his homeland. Fierce Memories will touch your heart.

Peter Cukor: Before the Silver Cord Snapped Peter Cukor was born into a Jewish family in rural Hungary in 1936. In his early years he was directly involved in the tumultuous events of the mid-20th Century: Nazi persecution of the Jews, Communist oppression and liberation during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The author came to the United States as a refugee but became Americanized rapidly. Most of his friends and the younger members of his family are unfamiliar with the difficult experiences of his early years. “Before the Silver Cord is Snapped” is a memoir consisting of a string chronologically arranged vignettes assembled by the author for the enlightenment and edification of his family, friends and all those interested in the history of the Holocaust.

This second edition of Beyond Talent provides user-friendly real-life advice, examples, and perspectives on how to further a career in music. Understanding the unique talents and training of musicians, veteran music career counselor Angela Myles Beeching presents a wealth of creative solutions for career advancement in the highly competitive music industry. Step-by-step instructions detail how to design promotional materials, book performances, network and access resources and assistance, jump start a stalled career, and expand your employment opportunities while remaining true to your music. Beeching untangles artist management and the recording industry, explains how to find and create performance opportunities, and provides guidance on grant writing and fundraising, day jobs, freelancing, and how to manage money, time, and stress. The companion website puts numerous up-to-date and useful internet resources at your fingertips. This essential handbook goes beyond the usual "how-to," helping musicians tackle the core questions about career goals, and create a meaningful life as a professional musician. Beyond Talent is the ideal companion for students and professionals, emerging musicians and mid-career artists.

The many sides of Abraham Lincoln?war leader, humorist, commander in chief, politician, and emancipator?are vividly depicted in this concise and fresh look at his presidential years. Pivotal events, decisions, and issues in Lincoln?s private and public life are scrutinized and explained clearly by noted historian James A. Rawley. During an innovative yet bloody era marked by mass communication, unheard-of national recognition and media attention, and the increasingly destructive uses of technology to wage war, Lincoln did all that he could to preserve the nation as a whole. Principles underpinning Lincoln?s actions and motivations as administrator and war leader included an abiding spirit of nationalism, which contrasted with the forces driving his immediate predecessors, and the encompassing power conferred upon him as commander in chief in wartime. Accessible and informative, Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For is an engaging and valuable introduction to the career of one of our most memorable presidents.

Elena Skrjabina's struggle to survive World War II began in1941, with the blockade of Leningrad, which she describes in a previously published portion of her diary, Siege and Survival: The Odyssey of a Leningrader. Skrjabina, her two sons, and her mother followed a trail of terror across the ice of Lake Ladoga, endured hunger, bombs, and Arctic cold before finding safety in Pyatigorsk. The present diary begins August 9, 1942, the night a German invasion transformed Pyatigorsk into an inferno. When the Red Army soldiers returned, the Skrjabinas and thousands of other Russians retreated with the routed Germans. This powerful and shocking diary tells the chilling tale of the little known, carefully suppressed Russian side of World War II.