Mac Home Recording Studio With Garageband

It helps that Apple is using in-store appearances by hip musicians like Liz Phair and Rufus Wainwright to promote it, but even without that bait, you would have reached the same conclusion on your own: That is, Apple's free-on-all-new-Macs (and $49 as part of the iLife '04 suite) GarageBand software is just about the coolest thing to come along for budding musicians since, well, the garage itself! In these pages, the man who wrote the book on the iPod--Secrets of the iPod author Christopher Breen--shows you how to make at least some of the music you'll want to store and play on it. Through fun projects, friendly instruction, and real-world insights, Chris steps you through the process of using GarageBand to transform your Mac into the home recording studio you've long coveted. In short order, you'll find yourself turning your Mac into any of 50 supported instruments, plugging in your guitar to record your own parts, adding tracks, applying prerecorded loops, mixing your soon-to-be hits, and more.Breen, Christopher is the author of 'Mac Home Recording Studio With Garageband', published 2005 under ISBN 9780321281050 and ISBN 0321281055.