The first Logic Pro X book the FCP users have been waiting for

[Charlie Austin]

Awesome. Thanks Edgar… 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Marcus Moore]

Great stuff- I’ll bookmark it for a couple of weeks from now. Hopefully the 10.1 update will bring some better connective tissue between FCPX and Logic.

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Hey Edgar,

Thanks for the Manual. I have some questions:

1. Will the book also be available on iBooks?

2. If so, are there advantages functionality wise at buying it as pdf vs the, I presume, ePub format on the iBooks store?

3. If Apple would update FCPX and LOGIC PRO X soon to work better together, could the customers get an upgrade if there was one of your book?

Kind regards,

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hey Edgar,
my congratulations to your new book. You´re doing a really good job (again).

danny

[Edgar Rothermich]

Yes I’m working on the iBook version but don’t have a release date yet. It takes some time to reformat it from Pages to iBooks Author and then adding all the interactivity and Glossary+link. And then it has to go through Apple’s approval process.

Yes any updates to my manual I make is available for free. The iBooks on the iBookstore gets automatically upgraded (notified through the iBooks app) and for the pdf files, I have the customer email address through the PayPal order and usually send out email notifications to cusomters who bought a specific manual with a link to an updated pdf file (except the customer who unsubscribe to my mailing list). THe only exception was the rewrite of the FCPx manual this spring which was a lot of work and I just offered a the new ones for discounted priced to current customers. About the printed books, every time I update the pdf files, I update the Amazon book at the same time. This is the beauty of print-on -demand. I don’t sit on 1000 outdated copies of my book in the garage. Whatever book you order from Amazon will be printed that day with the current updated version of that day. Any copy of any software app you buy on Amazon from the big publisher are virtually outdated. I keep my books updated as fast as possible.

About the coming December upgrade, I’m not sure how much different they will be. There was a lot of nonsense rumors floating around before Apple’s October even that FCPx would be rewritten. Maybe the new December upgrade will be just a system upgrade for the MacPros as they did with the Retina upgrade. Maybe (hopefully) they implement the FCPx-LPX handshake. It looks like the foundation is there but not yet fully implemented. However, I still don’t know they will cleverly translate the Roles concept into Logic. I was actually afraid that they would use that Metadata approach in Logic. Luckily we still have Tracks in Logic. We will see

Edgar Rothermich
(MacPro 8core, 16GB RAM, Fireface800, Euphonix MC Control, Logic Pro, FCPx)
https://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals

[Marcus Moore]

[Edgar Rothermich] “About the coming December upgrade, I’m not sure how much different they will be. There was a lot of nonsense rumors floating around before Apple’s October even that FCPx would be rewritten. Maybe the new December upgrade will be just a system upgrade for the MacPros as they did with the Retina upgrade. Maybe (hopefully) they implement the FCPx-LPX handshake. It looks like the foundation is there but not yet fully implemented. However, I still don’t know they will cleverly translate the Roles concept into Logic. I was actually afraid that they would use that Metadata approach in Logic. Luckily we still have Tracks in Logic. We will see”

That “complete rewrite” nonsense came from a guy who’s blown smoke about BIG updates before (most notably before NAB this year being a HUGE FCPX update), so I ignored that talk.

But it’s not going to be a simple tweaking for the MacPro either. All signs point to some structural changes to file structure and media management.

All that aside, the salient point here- making FCPX and LogicProX communicate better- no one knows at this point.

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Thanks for the resonse, Edgar!

[Edgar Rothermich]

Amazon has my “Logic Pro x – How it Works” book now on sale for 34% off . Click on the Amazon button on my website https://DingDingMusic.com/DingDing/LPX1.html

Thanks

Edgar Rothermich
(MacPro 8core, 16GB RAM, Fireface800, Euphonix MC Control, Logic Pro, FCPx)
https://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals

[Edgar Rothermich]

The Amazon website has activated the “Look Inside” feature on my book. Now you can browse through the book to find out how much information is packed in that manual and learn more about my unique style of Graphically Enhanced Manuals (if you are not familiar with yet).
Amazon still has a 37% discount on the printed book as of today.
Click on the Amazon button on my website https://DingDingMusic.com/DingDing/LPX1.html

Thanks

Edgar Rothermich
(MacPro 8core, 16GB RAM, Fireface800, Euphonix MC Control, Logic Pro, FCPx)
https://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals

[Edgar Rothermich]

Finally, my Logic book “Logic Pro X – How it Works” is now available on Apple’s iBookstore. Please click on the iBooks link on my website
https://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals

Please note, this is an interactive Multi-Touch eBook (not a text-based Kindle style ePub format). It can be viewed with the iBooks app on the iPad and now also with the new iBooks app on your Mac (running OSX 10.9).
The approval process with Apple took a little longer and I used the time to correct more typos and some minor errors. This new update should be posted hopefully soon and will update through the iBookstore Notification system.
The new version will also include the more complete (graphically enhanced) Glossary with 400 words hyperlinked throughout the book. You can even learn Logic non-linear, going through the Glossary.

Thanks for your interest and don’t forget to rate the book

Thanks

Edgar Rothermich
(MacPro 8core, 16GB RAM, Fireface800, Euphonix MC Control, Logic Pro, FCPx)
https://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals