With new producers wanting to make their own mark in music, this text covers what the new home producer needs to make music using DAW programs and/or other audio and MIDI gear.This text explains Music Basics for Production, Sequencing, Sampling, Synthesis, and MIDI.A chapter has been added with tips that can be used to make more professional productions, written by Bob Dennis (Robert Dennis), the founder of the Recording Institute of Detroit, formerly Quality Control of Motown Records in the 1960s..This text also includes with no increase in price an additional 32 pages of procedures sheets developed for specific equipment over a thirty year period. These were written for students of Production at the Recording Institute of Detroit. The list of equipment includes: MPC 60, MPC 3000, MPC 2000, Korg N364/N264, and Yamaha Effects units.