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Biography
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 the former Los Angeles based Pro Audio Product Marketing Manager and Logic Pro Artist Relations Manager for Apple Inc. As a Logic specialist he interfaced with dozens of the world’s most visible musicians and composers, gathered feature requests, lame drummer jokes and provided on-site Logic training and tech support. A successful musician and composer himself, he has written dreamy dark electronic music for NBC, Disney, Miramax Films, Apple Inc as well as dozens of indie films and projects. Bill has engineered and produced CD’s for 20 LA based independent artists.
Bill started playing drums at 8 years old and his passion for jazz drumming led to a Buddy Rich Schloarship to Berklee College of Music, where his first audition earned him a coveted performance rating of 6666. Equally passionate about recording and electronic music, Bill earned a Bachelor of Science in Audio Engineering from University of Colorado where he staged multiple electronic music performances using 2 Arp 2600’s, mutiple tape machine loops and junkyard percussion.
A chronic early adopter, Bill bought one of the very first Emulator II+ keyboard samplers for a stunning $6,500! It proved to be a career changing decision. He has performed with multiple artists and toured on three continents playing a hybrid kit of acoustic drums and mix electronics.
Bill performs every 6 months or so around Los Angeles and is currently working on a new record of minimal influenced tracks (www.myspace.com/billburgess). By day he is CEO of Uplink Industries www.uplinkindustries.com, an audio video production company located in Glendale CA, which recently finished all of the in-house 5.1 surround mixes for the LA production of The Who’s "Tommy" and currently has a number of video projects in development.
Bill is an Apple Certified Logic Pro 8 Trainer, Apple Certified Logic Pro T3 Training Instructor, Apple Certified XSAN for Video and holds Pro Tools Mix-Edit and Avid Media Composer Certifications.
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.