GarageBand 3 [With DVD-ROM]

by Mary Plummer

Book Overview

This text and DVD includes 20 hours of step-by-step lessons covering everything from learning the interface and the most basic recording techniques to music composition, arranging, and advanced... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321421655
• ISBN13: 9780321421654
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

This one is the BEST

If you are looking for a great way to understand the workings of GarageBand, look no further. This book by Mary Plummer is easy to use and takes you through the projects clearly and thoroughly. I had no experience with GarageBand and I really needed to know what to do and how to do it. Now I am comfortable and see the great power of the GarageBand program. The CD that comes with the book makes the projects very easy to understand. GET THIS BOOK!

Excellent Book

Well written and easy to understand (unlike many books on home recording). It's broken down into step by step tutorials which, if followed, will teach you all the basics as you progress through the book. Highly recommended.

Great training aid

An excellent training program for Macintosh's Garageband home recording studio for beginners. Easy to follow and use, but quite comprehensive at the same time. I wouldn't expect less from Apple.

Excellent learning tool

GarageBand 3: Create and Record Music on a Mac is encyclopedic in scope and of great interest to anyone with an interest in digital audio production, including podcasting. Although I use a Mac for work, this book and its accompanying DVD provided my first introduction to GarageBand 3--Apples' digital audio production software. Having heard good things about the program, I was already intrigued to learn more. However, as this was my first in-depth exposure to any type of digital audio software, I was also fairly intimidated-I was apprehensive that I would need to be a competent musician before I even began. Despite these initial apprehensions I quickly found GarageBand3, by Mary Plummer, to be extremely well-written. It is easy to read. The book is well organized--full of clearly laid out, easy-to-follow instructions and examples. The book provides details on how to record, arrange and mix music using GarageBand. In addition, there are instructions for how to record your own instruments, as well as more than 1,000 loops (royalty free) that are included with the program. And, once the project is exported it can be easily integrated with other iLife Applications. The book begins with an overview of GarageBand 3's interface, which I was surprised to find fairly intuitive. The Timeline is also easy to understand and its workings are the subject of Lesson 2. Lessons 3-6 cover arranging music and introduce how to use Software Instruments, Real Instruments and Apple Loops. Lesson 7 examines mixing and adding effects. Lessons 8 and 9 look at using the software for podcast creation and, even scoring movies. The final Lesson covers various information on exporting your completed projects. Exercises are provided for each chapter. I found following along with them to be of tremendous benefit with learning the application. For example, the exercises for Lesson 8, Creating Podcasts, show you how to set up the voice tracks for your recording. Then the rest of the lesson builds on this initial project to show you how to work with multiple voice tracks, add markers and record sound effects to the Timeline. Learning more about podcasting was my primary motivation for reading this book and I was not disappointed. From the opening pages of this book I was spurred on to learn more. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about GarageBand and I would recommend GarageBand to anyone interested in learning more about podcasting.