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SONAR 3 Mixing and Mastering Outline

PART I: SONAR essentials
Chapter 1: How to set up your system
Chapter 2: First steps in SONAR
Chapter 3: Arranging and editing audio material
Chapter 4: SONAR's multiple mixer method
Chapter 5: DXi and VST instruments
Chapter 6: Instruments included in SONAR
Chapter 7: The art of backing up

PART II: Basics of mixing and mastering
Chapter 8: Introduction to mixing
Chapter 9: The mixing process

PART III: Equalization, Dynamics and Reverb
Chapter 10: About Equalization
Chapter 11: About Dynamics
Chapter 12: About Reverb

PART IV: Using effects in SONAR
Chapter 13: Effects types

PART V: Specific techniques
Chapter 14: Re-amping and live monitoring
Chapter 15: Multiband compression
Chapter 16: Creating "virtual mics"
Chapter 17: Modeling acoustic spaces with short delays
Chapter 18: Automation in SONAR
Chapter 19: The wide world of panning
Chapter 20: Grouping tracks and busses
Chapter 21: Mixing—more than level changes
Chapter 22: Cleaning vocals
Chapter 23: Mixing and MIDI
Chapter 24: Mixing with noise
Chapter 25: Using hardware control surfaces
Chapter 26: Interfacing with the physical world

PART VI: Mastering with SONAR
Chapter 27: Mastering basics
Chapter 28: Mastering within SONAR
Chapter 29: Mixing for better mastering
Chapter 30: Master-oriented plug-ins
Chapter 31: Dithering
Chapter 32: Final stages of Mastering

Appendix A: What's on the CD
Appendix B: Sound, studio and staging mixing event

Index