Covering the newest version of the popular software for working with music and sound, Cubase SX 2, this book serves as a recording professional's guide to recording melodies and accompaniments, arranging, recording vocals and musical instruments, processing with MIDI and audio effects, using virtual synthesizers, and mixing. For beginners, a primer gives the forms of representing musical information in Cubase SX including Score Editor, Key Editor, List Editor, and Drum Editor. Also described is the order of executing basic operations, such as loading and saving project files, playing back and recording MIDI compositions, recording the audio track, and connecting plug-ins. More experienced computer musicians are presented a detailed description of the interface and methods of effectively working in all the program's windows. This book contains concrete recommendations on configuring a studio computer network, creating a project with the multichannel 5.1 format, and mixing a musical composition in the stereo or surround formats.