GarageBand is the most accessible, affordable, and easy-to-learn multitrack recording application available. Learn how to start creating your own music with GarageBand here in this course. Garrick Chow shows how to create a new project, add loops (prerecorded sounds and drum beats) to quickly build a song, create your own custom loops, and use Drummer to create custom beats.
He describes how to connect a MIDI keyboard controller and record with software instruments. Then he shows how to edit tracks, create a click track, and even print musical notation of your MIDI tracks. Next, he demonstrates how to record audio tracks into GarageBand, focusing on recording guitars and using multiple takes to create a comp track. Garrick then explains how to arrange, edit, and mix your projects using the arrangement track and the built-in effects.
Next, he shows how to export your project, share it with the world, save it to iCloud, and archive it. Finally, Garrick shows how to use your iPad with GarageBand and how to open projects created in GarageBand for iOS, the mobile version of the app.
Curriculum :
Introduction
Welcome
Installing GarageBand
How to use the exercise files
What’s new in Q4 2014
What’s new in Q3 2015 NEW
1. Getting Started
Touring the GarageBand interface
Creating a new project
Adding tracks
Understanding region types
2. Working with Loops and Drummer
Browsing the loop library
Understanding the difference between Software and Real Instrument loops
Adding loops to your project and customizing them
Changing loop settings
Transposing loops
Importing audio tracks
Using Drummer to create custom drumbeats
3. Working with Software Instruments
Understanding MIDI and Musical Typing
Connecting a keyboard controller
Recording a Software Instrument track
Cycle recording
Splitting a drum track into multiple tracks
Editing software tracks
Creating a click track
Editing and printing musical notation
Using the new synths in 10.1.0 UPDATED
4. Working with Real Instruments
Getting real sounds into your Mac
Setting input levels
Recording a Real Instrument track
Recording and compositing multiple takes
Enabling simultaneous multitrack recording
Customizing the guitar sound
Customizing the bass sound
Fixing timing issues with Flex Time and Groove Matching
5. Arranging, Editing, and Mixing Your Project
Getting organized
Using the arrangement track
Equalizing tracks
Using Audio Units and third-party plugins
Automating volume and panning
Locking tracks to improve system performance
Mixing
Using the master track
6. Exporting, Sharing, and Archiving Your Project
Using the Share menu
Saving your project to iCloud to access from other Macs
Archiving your project
7. Other Features
Opening projects created in GarageBand for iOS
Controlling GarageBand remotely from an iPad
Conclusion
Goodbye
