GarageBand2. The Missing Manual
- GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- The Missing Credits
- About the Author
- About the Creative Team
- Acknowledgements
- The Missing Manual Series
- Part I: Building a Hit
- Chapter 1. Setting Up the Garage
- 1.1. Equipment Requirements
- 1.2. Installing GarageBand
- 1.3. Opening GarageBand
- 1.4. Playback
- 1.5. Cycling (Looping)
- 1.6. Navigating the Music
- 1.7. Two Kinds of Music
- 1.8. Tracks
- 1.9. Muting and Soloing Tracks
- Chapter 2. Loops
- 2.1. Starting a New GarageBand Project
- 2.2. The Loop Browser
- 2.3. Placing a Loop
- 2.4. More Loops
- Chapter 3. Regions
- 3.1. Selecting Regions
- 3.2. Renaming Regions
- 3.3. Dragging Regions
- 3.4. The Grid
- 3.5. Looping Regions
- 3.6. Shortening Regions I
- 3.7. Shortening Regions II
- 3.8. Lengthening Regions
- 3.9. Splitting Regions
- 3.10. Joining Regions
- 3.11. Copy and Paste
- 3.12. Option-Drag
- 3.13. Delete
- 3.14. Tutorial: Funk for Nonmusicians
- Chapter 4. Software Instruments (MIDI)
- 4.1. How to Feed a Hungry GarageBand
- 4.2. Your FREE Onscreen Digital Piano
- 4.3. The Mac Keyboard as Piano
- 4.4. MIDI Synths and Controllers
- 4.5. Recording a MIDI Track
- 4.6. Retakes
- 4.7. Spot Recording (Punch InPunch Out)
- 4.8. Cumulative Recording
- 4.9. Mod Wheels and Other MIDI Fun
- Chapter 5. Editing Software Instrument Parts
- 5.1. The Track Editor
- 5.2. Notation Editing
- 5.3. The Encyclopedia of MIDI Editing
- 5.4. Transposing Notes or Regions
- 5.5. Quantizing (
- 5.6. Velocity, Pedaling, and Other MIDI Data
- Chapter 6. Recording and Editing Live Audio
- 6.1. The Setup
- 6.2. Recording a Live Audio Track
- 6.3. Editing Real Instrument Regions
- 6.4. Enhance Timing, Enhance Tuning
- Chapter 7. Effects, Guitar Amps, and Instrument Modules
- 7.1. Instrument-Named Presets
- 7.2. Save Instrument, Delete Instrument
- 7.3. Effect Modules
- Part II: Beyond the Garage
- Chapter 8. Mixing and Publishing
- 8.1. Mixing Tracks
- 8.2. The Master Track
- 8.3. Publishing the Song
- 8.4. Your Music in iMovie, iPhoto, and iDVD
- Chapter 9. Adding On, Moving Up
- 9.1. Making Your Own Apple Loops
- 9.2. Moving Your Loops to Another Drive
- 9.3. Importing MIDI Files
- 9.4. Import iTunes Music Store Songs (Soundflower)
- 9.5. More Free Software Instruments (SoundFonts)
- 9.6. The iSight as Microphone
- 9.7.
- 9.8. The Instrument Tuner
- 9.9. ReWire
- 9.10. Build Your Own Drum Loops (iDrum)
- 9.11. Add an E-Z Chords Feature (ReMIDI)
- 9.12. Beyond GarageBand
- 9.13. GarageBand Online
- Chapter 10. The Speed Chapter
- 10.1. Set the Stage
- 10.2. Mute Some Tracks
- 10.3. Lock Some Tracks
- 10.4. Temporarily Squelch the Effects
- 10.5. Combine Tracks
- 10.6. Enlarge Your Buffer
- 10.7. Lose Some Software Instrument Voices
- 10.8. Reduce the Track Overhead
- 10.9. Convert Software Instrument Loops
- 10.10. Turn Monitoring Off
- 10.11.
- 10.12. Install More Memory
- Chapter 11. Troubleshooting
- 11.1. Trouble with Loops
- 11.2. Recording and Editing Problems
- 11.3. Mixing and Publishing Glitches
- Part III: Appendixes
- Appendix A. The GarageBand Music Crash Course
- A.1. Measures
- A.2. The Time Signature
- A.3. More About Note Values
- A.4. Key
- A.5. Tempo
- Appendix B. GarageBand, Menu by Menu
- B.1. GarageBand Menu
- B.2. File Menu
- B.3. Edit Menu
- B.4. Track Menu
- B.5. Control Menu
- B.6. Window Menu
- B.7. Help Menu
- Appendix C. GarageBand 2 Keyboard Shortcuts
- C.1. Navigating GarageBand
- C.2. Manipulating Tracks
- C.3. Recording
- C.4. Editing and Arranging
- C.5. Notation View
- C.6. Window Management
- C.7. File Management
- Colophon
- Index
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