Comments on: Kurt Kurasaki’s great Reason books.

By: soundspirit

soundspirit — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:13:41 +0000

Reason is very good for beginners. It’s quite powerful modular environment, but it has poor sound quality(sound too thin). For this reason i sold my license long ago. :]

By: yermo

yermo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:48:57 +0000

You should buy your wife Mark Monciardini’s – Mark’s 101 Totally Awesome Photo Tips
When I learned photoshop this helped me a lot.
…the guy telling you how to do all kinds of stuff is not boring and pretty funny.

By: mr. tunes

mr. tunes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:36:28 +0000

hey oliver, yeah i’m with you on the graphics stuff. for example the site audiotuts doesn’t interest me very much compared to their sister sites on psdtuts and nettuts.

power tools is good but i’m curious what his version4 book has to say on Thor and routing structures with that.

also there’s a good Reason guide that was on newstands about half a year ago. i forget which publisher made it.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:15:37 +0000

Ha! See it’s the OPPOSITE for me. I’m an illustrator/designer by day and I buy every issue of Sound on Sound and FutureMusic I find, and I study the gearporn photos on Flickr. “Ooooh, is that an Apogee Duet? oooh.” I can’t read Photoshop books as I would likely have to vomit.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:05:37 +0000

Yeah I have to admit that I find myself buying magazines and books on graphic design more than audio stuff lately mostly because there is more for me to learn there.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:55:30 +0000

Oh you probably already know all the stuff in Peter’s book. I knew a lot about the software, but not the process of making sounds, and the book helped me put a lot of the pieces together: working hardware into a software set up, the mystery of MIDI and controllers, microphones, why this effect and not that effect, etc. But it’s really good.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:43:59 +0000

Oh I don’t have the book for 4 just this one: click here. I should have put that link instead… Now you have me wanting Peter’s book, over 600 pages should keep me busy for a while!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:22:24 +0000

While most people take thick novels on vacation or to bed with them, I take software manuals and guides. Peter Kirn’s DIgital Audio book went to Hawaii with me last March, and I have the audio/midi effects section of the Ableton Live manual next to the bed right now.
I love reading manuals and the Power Tools series have been good. I like Jim Aiken’s Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming.
That being said, this book, according to Amazon, hasn’t ben released yet! Not til May 2009?! Reason 4 will be nearly two years old at that point. Oliver, how the heck did you get a copy of this already?

By: Raytrace

Raytrace — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:26:39 +0000

Peff is indeed a genius – his Refills are incredible. Although as a red-blooded neanderthal, the last thing I EVER do is RTFM (or ask for directions), but I believe I should bite the bullet this time, as I’ve been rejecting poor old Reasony of late, and this would put me right back in the mood methinks :)