This is an ex­cerpt from a full length DVD avail­able at www.ProAu­dioD­VDs.com.

Host David Wills has toured with ma­jor artists such as Michael Jack­son, Phil Collins, Whit­ney Hous­ton, Chica­go and Di­ana Ross and pro­vides you with a pro­fes­sion­al's per­spec­tive but al­ways demon­strat­ed in an in­for­mal, easy to un­der­stand way.

Here's a com­plete list­ing of the sub­jects that are cov­ered...

0:01:35 BA­SIC RECORD­ING TO CD
0:03:15 Con­nec­tions
0:03:30 Mak­ing a com­pi­la­tion CD
0:04:00 Ad­just­ing record­ing lev­els
0:05:00 Record­able CDs types
0:06:40 "Open" vs. "closed" CDs
0:07:35 Mas­ter­ing tools
0:09:45 Fi­nal­iz­ing a Disc

0:10:25 IN­TRO TO SAM­PLING
0:11:25 Sam­ple times
0:11:45 Sam­pling from a mi­cro­phone
0:12:55 Se­lect­ing pad banks
0:13:40 Us­ing the Clip­board
0:14:35 Delet­ing a sam­ple
0:15:00 Sam­pling pa­ram­e­ters
0:17:15 Re­sam­pling
0:18:20 Sam­pling from a CD
0:20:00 Pad X-​Fade
0:20:35 Load­ing Win­dows .wav files
0:22:20 Bank pa­ram­e­ters
0:22:35 Us­ing a footswitch
0:23:25 Bank pro­tect
0:24:20 Pad pa­ram­e­ters
0:25:20 Set­ting loops
0:26:40 Sav­ing sam­ples

0:27:35 EF­FECT BA­SICS/
RECORD­ING TO THE AU­DIO TRACKS
0:28:30 In­sert ef­fects
0:29:10 Chro­mat­ic Tuner
0:30:25 Se­lect­ing groups
0:30:35 Edit­ing ef­fects
0:32:45 Loop ef­fects
0:35:45 Your first record­ing
0:36:00 For­mat­ting for record­ing
0:37:50 Over­dub­bing
0:39:30 Adding ef­fects while record­ing
0:40:25 Us­ing Mark­ers
0:41:25 Ef­fects lo­ca­tion

0:44:35 RHYTHM GUIDE AND BA­SIC PAD SE­QUENC­ING
0:46:00 Se­lect­ing pat­terns
0:46:25 Us­ing the tem­po map
0:47:55 Adding loop ef­fects to the rhythm guide
0:48:25 In­tro to Pad Se­quenc­ing
0:50:40 Im­por­tance of us­ing the rhythm guide
0:51:45 Step record­ing
0:53:20 Re­al­time record­ing
0:53:50 Quan­tis­ing
0:56:25 Turn­ing tracks on and off
0:56:35 Eras­ing tracks
0:56:50 Sav­ing to a CD-​RW

0:57:15 PUTTING IT ALL TO­GETH­ER/
AD­VANCED OP­ER­A­TIONS
0:58:00 Bounc­ing tracks
1:00:20 Punch­ing in
1:01:40 Scrub and pre­view
1:04:20 Per­form­ing a Mix­down
1:06:00 Mas­ter­ing tools
1:06:20 Burn­ing a CD
1:06:50 Fi­nal­iz­ing
1:07:20 Disk op­ti­mize
1:07:55 Disk back­up
1:08:50 Mi­di func­tions
1:11:20 Re­sam­pling with in­sert ef­fects
1:13:05 Tweak­ing ef­fects
1:14:50 Re­sam­pling with loop ef­fects
1:17:45 Match­ing tem­pos
1:18:20 Base tem­pos
1:21:50 Sam­pling pa­ram­e­ters
1:24:20 Op­ti­miz­ing sam­ples
1:25:15 Di­vid­ing sam­ples
1:27:05 Nor­mal­iz­ing
1:28:15 Time-​stretch­ing
1:28:50 Re­verse
1:29:00 Step-​record­ing with rests/ties
1:32:00 Se­quence ed­its
1:33:50 Menu op­tions

1:36:20 GRAD­U­A­TION!