Product Description

Apple's GarageBand is the hottest and most accessible digital music software available today. Giving musicians of all levels an affordable tool with which to perform, record, and create extraordinary sounds, it features thousands of professionally recorded loops and over 50 pro-sounding instruments, effects, and virtual guitar amps.

You may have already played with the program and laid down some pretty cool sounds--after all, accessibility is the whole point of GarageBand. But do you know how to record vocals and instruments, create MIDI sequences, work with Apple Loops, and customize software instruments? That's where Power Tools for GarageBand comes in. It goes straight into the nitty-gritty of this surprisingly comprehensive program. From concept to finished mix, Power Tools for GarageBand teaches you the same engineering and production techniques that seasoned professionals use, giving you the power tools you need to construct new mansions in sound.

Power Tools for GarageBand includes essential information on: - Recording vocals and instruments - Creating MIDI sequences - Working with Apple Loops - Customizing software instruments - Professional mixing techniques - Time-saving shortcuts

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #766996 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 129 pages

About the Author
Award-winning remixer and composer Francis Preve is a recognized expert in synthesis, engineering, and production. His credits range from soundtrack production for Warner Bros. and Touchstone Pictures to remixes for Orbital, Utah Saints, Beborn Beton, and Claire Voyant. A contributing editor for Keyboard Magazine since 2000, he is also the author of Power Tools: Software for Loop Music.

Customer Reviews

This is the manual that should have come with Garageband
Clear, concise, and informative. Lots of useful examples. Plus, anybody who would include a discussion of hocketing automatically gets 5 stars.

Pretty much 50-50
This book was a let down of sorts. Tho it did give me some insight to some of the MIDI workings of GB2, overall I found out most of the info thru the net & reading forums for free.

It's OK.

info unavailable elsewhere
Toying with Garageband gave me a burning curiousity about what went on "under the hood" of its deceptively simple looking synthesizers. Francis answers these along with many other questions I may not have thought to ask. He discusses GB2, which apparently did not include the "hybrid" synths found in GB3. He also missed that the Tonewheel Organ's drawbars can be varied with a foot controller pedal [cc4]. His included software CD is somewhat outdated, but led me to an intriguing free software synth [Automat] that I had not known about.