Product Description

Whether you are a newbie or an experienced user, Waves Plug-Ins CSi Master will help you understand the functionality and operation of key Waves plug-in processors. This training and tutorial CD-ROM covers basic concepts, button and element definitions, and production techniques, and includes before and after audio examples. If you prefer the "show me" style of learning, then CSi Movie Tutorials are for you. Sit back and watch a DAW pro show you the ins and outs of driving plug-in processors in sound production. Cover plug-ins from the Waves Gold, Platinum, Native, Renaissance, Broadcast, Maxx, Transform, Masters, and Restoration bundles.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1757430 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: CD-ROM

About the Author
John Hughes is audio professional based in Dayton, Ohio with over 15 years of experience in audio engineering, sales and education. John has authored CSi vol.5 – Pro Tools 5, CSi vol.6 – Digital Performer, CSi vol.10 – Audio Plug-ins and Waves Plug-ins CSi Master.

Customer Reviews

Save your money
This is a clear example of what an instructional or tutorial video should NOT be: a gentleman rephrasing the plugs' manuals and RANDOMLY moving faders and buttons to "illustrate" their function. No suggestions about when and why you would want to use each plug, or which parameters you could adjust to obtain X result. Nothing. It's like a teacher just reading aloud a text book to his class.

As for the "interactive" part: you get none at all (unless you consider "interaction" choosing which chapter you want to watch at any given point in time).

You're better off just reading the Waves manuals and experimenting with the plugs yourself. This video does not provide one single bit of information that you could not get yourself this way.

On top of it all you get an annoying voice-over that sounds utterly self-conscious, forced and fake, more like a radio host or commercial announcer than someone trying to help you learn.

All in all, a very poor product.

Very Disappointing
It pretty much is like someone reading a manual to you and showing you on video. There is really not much about using the plugins or techniques in using the plugins that you don't get from the manuals. It justs shows features and describes features. The product manuals you get with the plugins are much better as you can go through them at your own pace. These videos race through product descriptions much like sales demos describing features of the products.
A real waist of money.

Great insight into how professionals use the Waves Plug-ins
This is a great product to get an initial feel of how to use the Waves plug-ins. While it does cover most of the details of using the plug-ins, it's not really as comprehensive as a book. It was interesting to see how a professional sound engineer would use these valuable tools. There were some really good tips.

Pros:
* Covers the user interface quite well
* You can listen to the effect of changing a parameter on the music
* Professionally produced with nice voiceover

Cons:
* Sometimes the choices of which parameter was changed to demonstrate an effect seemed random or not well explained.

* Since there are many user interface similarities between the plug-ins, sometimes it seemed a bit repetitive to see the same features discussed in every plug-in.