GarageBand 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

By Victor Gavenda

A guide that uses step-by-step instructions, screenshots, and time-saving tips to show readers how to transform their Macs into audio production studios using Garage Band 2. It helps learn topics such... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321335449
• ISBN13: 9780321335449
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Very helpful

I needed to teach myself GarageBand and fast. I was in the middle of editing a podcast with Audacity, and it wasn't working for me. GarageBand saved the day--and this book saved it even more. I picked this book up from the library to check it out ... then quickly ordered a copy for myself. It's easy to use, easy to understand, and is a great quick reference tool.

Excellent Book

This is a great book, just like the title says "QuickStart Guide" and it is definitely a quick start guide.

It's quick, fast, and complete.

The Visual Quickstart Guides have a format where each page is divided into two columns with one column showing what you see on the screen and the other column having text that explains what's going on and what you need to do. A few such pages are then used to cover a small topic within the chapters. The small topic is self contained, easy to identify and makes a nice little mini-less all by itself. A good index leads you to this mini-lesson if you are looking for just that one thing. In this book, the tried and proven approach is used to give an excellent beginning leven introduction to GarageBand 2. GarageBand 2, just introduced at MacWorld 2005, is "music software for the rest of us." Basically this one program, included free with iLife, enables the Mac to do the work of what used to take a whole room full of equipment. GarageBand 2 does not come with a manual. You can, you are supposed to, learn about it by experimentation. Reading a coordinated book like this one gives you an overview that covers the entire program rather than a hit and miss approach that sometimes lets you miss things. This is not your typical giant sized computer book. But it's quick, fast, and complete.