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The
Keys to Producing a Studio-Caliber
Demo CD in Your Living
Room
O'Reilly Releases
"GarageBand: The Missing Manual"
Sebastopol,
CA--GarageBand may not begin with the letter i, but it's a
glittering addition to Apple's
iLife creative suite. It's a song-making toolkit
and software recording studio that can produce
professional-sounding, polished musical tracks. The program
comes with 1,100 prerecorded
loops, tracks for live recordings, and effects like reverb
and panning. But it doesn't
come with a single page of printed instructions.
"GarageBand:
The Missing Manual" (O'Reilly, US $19.95) is the book
that should have been
in the box--and the manual that author David Pogue, a
composer and former Broadway
conductor, was born to write.
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GarageBand
makes possible "a world where Joe Nobody, a guy with a
great voice but no
money, can produce a studio-caliber demo CD in his living
room," promises David
Pogue. And it's for musicians and non-musicians.
"GarageBand
lets you create authentic-sounding, studio-quality music
even if you can't carry
a tune, let alone a tuba," assures Pogue. "If you
have some semblance of
musical chops, though, GarageBand can quickly take you
to the next level of
creativity."
In
"GarageBand: The Missing Manual," Pogue explains
the two ways GarageBand
can create music--digital recordings (sound recordings that
Apple calls "Real
Instruments") and MIDI recordings (built-in synthesizer
sounds that Apple refers to as
"Software Instruments")--and advises readers
when and why to use each. He explores every GarageBand
feature in depth and
offers shortcuts, workarounds, hacks, tricks, and troubleshooting
advice. He also includes advanced GarageBand techniques
for power users.
Covering
GarageBand 1.1, "GarageBand: The Missing Manual"
includes:
-Essentials
of music: Readers can use GarageBand's loops without any
musical training. But to
exploit its more powerful tools, they need this book's
crash course in music and tips on song building and
orchestration.
-Beyond
the basics: This book reveals GarageBand's amazing plug-in
architecture. It shows readers
how and where to find new loops, instrumental
sounds, drum machines, and more--even how to make their own
Apple Loops.
-Finding
an audience: When a hit single is ready to meet its public,
GarageBand exports it to
iTunes. From there, it can be burned to a CD, posted
on a web site, or used as the soundtrack for an iMovie
movie, iPhoto slide
show, or iDVD menu screen.
With
"GarageBand: The Missing Manual," readers can
marry the stunning quality
of digital sound with the power of their imaginations and
create musical magic
with their Macs.
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