Subject plus: Len Sasso and Emagic verus Sonic Foundry Tutorials A Newbie (whom I forgot to cut 'n paste) wondered about these two books. Get them, get them as swiftly as you can, and get them both. Both are fairly well written. I used the _Fast Guide_ first, for it does a wonderful job of helping you set up your studio environment. It takes a while, but you learn a ton of useful info painlessly in the process. The author even wrote me back once, which was great, but he never bothered responding to another query as to whether he had a list of errata anywhere, which should be a must for a book of this type (especially since it indeed contains a small number of errors (none of which are major)). One note about the _Fast Guide_: If something does not work for you at some point, hold the phone there and keep at it until it does. There were times when I thought the book, or Logic, or my system, were screwed up. It turns out I was either not careful, or---and this happened more than I care to admit---I was not looking at the terrific pictures he put in there! : ) The _Fast Guide_ deals with Logic's MIDI aspects. The author is preparing a Logic 4 Audio version. That said, the 3.0 to 4.0 differences are slight enough to merit an immediate purchase of the book, especially if you are trolling through the manual. The Wizoo book is all about audio (and not MIDI). A perfect companion! It spends a quite-long time at the beginning telling you about putting together systems for use with Logic and is quite helpful on those counts. But the Wizzer really shines when DB gets into the workings of the audio features. It is a lot of fun and will get you playing with some cool features quickly. But the Wiz book does not hold you hand as gently as does Bennett's _Fast Guide_. There are items I found, for example, on the CD that would have helped me brilliantly had I had them from the beginning---perhaps in the interest of brevity, the author does not mention these in the text. So, explore the book _and_ the CD. To top all this off, you can get Famous Len Sasso's Environment Guide at his Web site, www.swiftkick.com. The key here: bang for the buck is knockout: for $15 you get an awesome environment "tool box," plus some nice example files and a beautifully organized set of pdf files that tell you all you need to know. (Yes, Emagic: pdf files. : ) : ) : ) Anybody who has used this package can testify that Len is a gifted teacher who uses the medium well. My guess is you can learn about three to five times more per unit time as a newbie through these tools than you can from the full blown manual. While we are on this topic, I just went to Sonic Foundry's Web site to go through their ACID Tutorial. GADS, EMagic, _if only_---if _only_ you could do this for Logic. It would be a marketing knockout punch, removing the Single Thing that keeps people away from this program (its initial unwieldiness (is that a word?? : ) ). For a salesperson to be able to say, "Don't worry about it; just go to their Web site and you'll be fine," would be a massive rev-generator for you. And it would do us newbies a wonderful favor. The format of the Sonic Foundry Tutorials is exemplary. (And, yes, I know that ACID is far easier to explain/use than Logic.) Go for it! All the Best/Enjoy, Tim