Book description
Whether you're a professional musician or a mere novice, Apple's GarageBand software has everything you need to produce commercial-quality recordings entirely on your own. Just imagine how many thousands of singers and instrumentalists remain undiscovered because they lack the capability to produce viable demos. Well, no more.
Now there's no need to assemble a backup band or book time at a professional studio--GarageBand has it covered. And GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual gives you the know-how you need to make it all happen. It's an authoritative, witty guide to constructing digital recordings with GarageBand.
Written by the master of the Missing Manual series, and a musician himself, David Pogue, this top-selling book shows you how to maximize the program's entire set of tools. Pre-recorded loops, sampled sounds, live recordings--they're all explained in easy-to-understand language. It also shows you how to apply professional-sounding effects like reverb or chorusing, and then export the finished product to iTunes, where you can download your work to an iPod, export it as an MP3, or burn it onto CDs.
Now revised to reflect GarageBand's latest features, this book's second edition also addresses how to:
- use GarageBand's eight-track capabilities
- display music notation in real time
- enhance timing and pitch for better quality recordings
- change the tempo and key of recorded instruments
- tune guitars with GarageBand before recording
So if you're chasing a dream or just having fun, GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual is the only resource you need to make the finest musical recordings possible.
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Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Copyright
- The Missing Credits
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I. Building a Hit
- 1. Setting Up the Garage
- 2. Loops
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3. Regions
- 3.1. Selecting Regions
- 3.2. Renaming Regions
- 3.3. Dragging Regions
- 3.4. The Grid
- 3.5. Looping Regions
- 3.6. Shortening Regions I
- 3.7. Shortening Regions II
- 3.8. Lengthening Regions
- 3.9. Splitting Regions
- 3.10. Joining Regions
- 3.11. Copy and Paste
- 3.12. Option-Drag
- 3.13. Delete
- 3.14. Tutorial: Funk for Nonmusicians
- 4. Software Instruments (MIDI)
- 5. Editing Software Instrument Parts
- 6. Recording and Editing Live Audio
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7. Effects, Guitar Amps, and Instrument
Modules
- 7.1. Instrument-Named Presets
- 7.2. Save Instrument, Delete Instrument
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7.3. Effect
Modules
- 7.3.1. Generator (Software Instruments Only)
- 7.3.2. Gate (Real Instruments Only)
- 7.3.3. Compressor
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7.3.4. “Additional Effects” Pop-Up Menus
- 7.3.4.1. Amp Simulation
- 7.3.4.2. Auto Wah
- 7.3.4.3. Automatic Filter
- 7.3.4.4. Bass Amp
- 7.3.4.5. Bass Reduction, Treble Reduction
- 7.3.4.6. Bitcrusher
- 7.3.4.7. Chorus
- 7.3.4.8. Distortion
- 7.3.4.9. Flanger
- 7.3.4.10. Overdrive
- 7.3.4.11. Phaser
- 7.3.4.12. Track Echo
- 7.3.4.13. Tremolo
- 7.3.4.14. Vocal Transformer
- 7.3.5. Equalizer
- 7.3.6. Echo, Reverb
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II. Beyond the Garage
- 8. Mixing and Publishing
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9. Adding On, Moving Up
- 9.1. Making Your Own Apple Loops
- 9.2. Moving Your Loops to Another Drive
- 9.3. Importing MIDI Files
- 9.4. Import iTunes Music Store Songs (Soundflower)
- 9.5. More Free Software Instruments (SoundFonts)
- 9.6. The iSight as Microphone
- 9.7. “Save as Archive”
- 9.8. The Instrument Tuner
- 9.9. ReWire
- 9.10. Build Your Own Drum Loops (iDrum)
- 9.11. Add an E-Z Chords™ Feature (ReMIDI)
- 9.12. Beyond GarageBand
- 9.13. GarageBand Online
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10. The Speed Chapter
- 10.1. Set the Stage
- 10.2. Mute Some Tracks
- 10.3. Lock Some Tracks
- 10.4. Temporarily Squelch the Effects
- 10.5. Combine Tracks
- 10.6. Enlarge Your Buffer
- 10.7. Lose Some Software Instrument Voices
- 10.8. Reduce the Track Overhead
- 10.9. Convert Software Instrument Loops
- 10.10. Turn Monitoring Off
- 10.11. “Bounce Down” Many Tracks into One
- 10.12. Install More Memory
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11. Troubleshooting
- 11.1. Trouble with Loops
- 11.2. Recording and Editing Problems
- 11.3. Mixing and Publishing Glitches
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III. Appendixes
- A. The GarageBand Music Crash Course
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B. GarageBand, Menu by Menu
- B.1. GarageBand Menu
- B.2. File Menu
- B.3. Edit Menu
- B.4. Track Menu
- B.5. Control Menu
- B.6. Window Menu
- B.7. Help Menu
- C. GarageBand 2 Keyboard Shortcuts
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2005
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596100353
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