Bill Burgess : Ask.Video

Bill Burgess is the former Pro Audio Product Marketing Manager and Logic Pro Artist Relations Manager for Apple Inc. He's also a brilliant software educator with long experience teaching audio producers how to make music!

Bill Burgess

By Martin Sitter

By Martin Sitter

Bill Burgess has been a good friend of mine for years. In fact, when I stopped working as Apple's Lead Logic educator to concentrate fully on building macProVideo.com, Bill Burgess was the person Apple hired to replace me!

Over the years we've grown quite close, and I've been incredibly please to watch as Bill's skills brought him increased recognition at Apple. They found out what I already knew - Bill Burgess is one of the best educators in the industry!

Bill is a musician, composer, video/visual artist and the former Pro Audio Product Marketing Manager and Logic Pro Artist Relations Manager for Apple Inc. As a Logic specialist imbedded in Los Angeles, he interfaced with dozens of the world’s most visible musicians and composers, gathered feature requests, and worked to bring those requests into reality with Apple software engineering teams. A successful musician and composer himself, he has written dreamy dark electronic music for NBC, Disney, Miramax Films, Apple Inc (you can hear his music in every box of Final Cut Studio.)
as well as dozens of indie films and projects. Bill has recently relocated from Los Angeles to Austin TX, where he is the Chief Creative for an all audio ad agency that delivers custom audio and music content for mobile. He is currently writing electronic music and collaborating on moving images and text for an upcoming youtube content channel that specializes in merging music and visual performance into a seamless whole.

Bill is an Apple Certified Logic Pro 8 Trainer, Apple Certified Logic Pro T3 Training Instructor, Apple Certified XSAN for Video and Final Cut Pro 6. He serves on the Avid/Digidesign Customer Advisory Board and is a Waves Beta Tester. Bill has also contributed to the following publications:  Quality Control Editor, Apple Pro Training Series: Advanced Logic Pro 7 by David Dvorin. Technical Editor, Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7, by Martin Sitter.

Courses by Bill Burgess

Reviews

Joseph Moore III wrote on March 7, 2024

Im new to Logic X. So, this course was a little advanced for me. But it made me more excited in exploring Logic X further. Loved the instructors style of teaching.
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Cary A wrote on June 22, 2022

Although some of the modulation routings were noise to my ears, I appreciate Bill’s thorough explanation & demonstration of modulation techniques & routings. I recommend this course to anyone using Omnisphere.
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Marty J wrote on March 6, 2021

Bill's straight ahead, easy understand tutorials are just what i needed to get going.
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Tomasz Stec wrote on January 19, 2021

Bill's style is my favourite so far in MacProVideo. It is an outstanding mix of his teaching approach, top man skills and his natural charisma. He speaks to me like no other tutor I have had both virtual and real.
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Russell Szabados wrote on July 10, 2020

I already know Battery, I watched this last night & today because I really enjoy Bill Burgess’ delivery and his knack for explaining difficult concepts with entertaining metaphors. And it was the only one of his tutorials on this site I hadn’t watched yet! This series has one of the best, most straightforward explanations of modulation I’ve ever heard. I highly recommend this tutorial to everyone who wants to learn Battery, and also anyone who wants to learn from an experienced, intelligent user with a quick wit and a deep enough insight to make all the important points memorable.
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Mixed Review ... wrote on March 30, 2020

Well, I got something out of this video - some nice tricks and features I had not been aware of. However, some aspects are not very well explained or demonstrated (rushed, wrong or important steps might be left out). All in all I still recommend viewing this course if you're new to Break Tweaker.
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Milton Foster wrote on January 31, 2020

I absolutely loved this course! It's a little tedious to sit through and watch (I had the hyper learn feature on for most of the time), but it's definitely worth it! Thanks to the guys at MacProVideo so much!
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Epic! wrote on November 29, 2019

I found it difficult to follow along to Bill's first two Ableton courses, but I learned a LOT on this one. It's full of useful information and tips and I'll definitely be going over it again. My only complaint was the section on MIDI effects. I found a lot of stuff was skipped over quickly and I still don't understand how many of the effects work. I'll try consulting the manual to see if it helps. Other than that, it is a great course.
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Good course, but somewhat disjoi wrote on November 25, 2019

I liked some of the content in this course, but some of the explanations were difficult to follow. At times it was not very obvious what was happening as parameters were being adjusted etc. I also found that the topics were a bit disjointed.
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david pybas wrote on December 27, 2018

a well explained, informative course that instills the desire and curiosity to learn more.
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