Garageband Hacks

What if the Beatles had Apple's GarageBand? A recent biography describes how the band had engineers literally hack studio equipment to get innovative sounds for the album Revolver. With GarageBand, today's musicians have powerful creativity at their fingertips. The program comes pre-installed on every new Mac as part of the iLife digital suite, and it's so easy to use that anyone can jump in and learn it quickly. The downside is that GarageBand is not a particularly "deep" program. There aren't a lot of hidden functions, and because it's very intuitive, you may assume that you can't customize or extend the software. But actually, there are many undocumented ways to use GarageBand that go well beyond the obvious. GarageBand Hacks offers 70 interesting and unusual ways to create and manipulate sounds in Garageband 2 and Garageband 3, not only by using the program's native features, but through the inventive use of plug-ins, freeware and shareware. The book offers you a wide range of hacks for: The inventive use of GarageBand's three main features: MIDI-controlled software instruments, simple looping, and recording. There are hacks for each feature, and several that work with all three. Using plug-ins and effects, such as the vocal transformer, amp modeling, synthesizer effects, and reverb. There's a brief primer on using plug-ins, the various types, and what works best with GarageBand. Using freeware and shareware with Garageband, including programs like Audacity the freeware audio editor, and Wiretap shareware for capturing any sound your computer produces. Using GarageBand in conjunction with iTunes and other iLife programs, to produce effects and soundtracks for iMovie files and iPhoto presentations. Whether you're a pro or a novice, there's a lot more to this popular application than meets the eye, and GarageBand Hacks shows you how to take advantage of it. You'll have more power and know-how than those sound engineers from the seminal 1960s.Truesdell, Clifford A. is the author of 'Garageband Hacks ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780596101763 and ISBN 0596101767.