This is the first book on the market that deals exclusively with Sound Forge 8 by Madison Media Software. You can find plenty of generic books about using computers to create and record music that may provide a small amount of information about Sound Forge 8, but none of them provide complete coverage of the product. Of course, Sound Forge 8 comes with an excellent manual in electronic format on its CD-ROM, but like most other manuals, it is meant only as a feature guide.