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How to Do Everything with GarageBand
Author(s): Emile Menasche (Author)
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Publication Date: August 24, 2004
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 0072256761
- ISBN-13: 9780072256765
Book Description
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From the Back Cover
Create professional-quality recordings with or without musical training. Construct a song by choosing from over 1,000 pre-recorded, royalty-free Apple Loops. Use dozens of sampled and modeled software instruments to turn your computer into an electronic orchestra and build a multitrack wall of sound. Record original audio, add effects, and get pro-level sound without ever leaving your Mac. Loaded with tips from pros in the music business–including a Platinum-winning producer, pro studio engineers, recording artists, and more–How to Do Everything with GarageBand looks at the software from a musician’s point of view. Master this powerful program and open the door to professional-caliber original music you can create at home.
- Install GarageBand and configure audio and MIDI connections
- Learn the hottest new features in version 1.1, including updates to the Loops Browser and Software Instruments
- Build an arrangement with Apple Loops
- Record both real and software instruments
- Expand your loop library
- Fix mistakes by punching in over a section of a track
- Make digital adjustments to pitch, timing, loudness, sustain, and more–after you’ve recorded
- Add audio effects to create master quality recordings
- Export your songs to iTunes
- Use editing tools to create your masterpiece–even if you’ve never played an instrument
About the author: Emile D. Menasché is a composer, journalist, author, and producer whose music has appeared on records, television, and film. He has been producing music on his Mac for more than a decade.
