GarageBand for dummies
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
2023.
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| Edición: | Third edition |
| Colección: | --For dummies.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009768139606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Not-So-Foolish Assumptions
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 Starting on a Good Note
- Chapter 1 Introducing GarageBand for Macs and iDevices
- What Is GarageBand?
- What Can You Do with GarageBand?
- What Can't You Do with GarageBand?
- Checking Your System Requirements
- The official requirements for Macs
- The official requirements for iDevices
- What Else Do You Need to Run GarageBand?
- Recording with GarageBand: A Few Teasers
- Sneak peek 1: The recording sequence
- Sneak peek 2: GarageBand for Mac
- Sneak peek 3: GarageBand for iDevices
- Chapter 2 Equipping and Setting Up Your Recording Space
- Cobbling Together a Studio Without Breaking the Bank
- Making the Most of Your Recording Space
- Deadening the room
- Preventing background noise
- Equipping Your Studio: Must-Have Gear versus Good-to-Have Gear
- Choosing a Microphone
- Dynamic and condenser microphones
- Microphone polarity patterns
- Microphone preamps
- Setting up your microphone
- Finding the Right Speakers
- Listening with Headphones Without Messing Up the Take
- Adding a MIDI Keyboard to Your Setup
- Finding a keyboard
- Connecting a MIDI keyboard to your computer
- Unraveling the Cable and Connector Conundrum
- Adding an Audio Interface to Your Setup
- Using an audio interface with GarageBand
- Shopping for an interface
- Perfecting Your Mic Setup
- Choosing a mic stand
- Recording vocals with pop filters and wind screens
- Boosting Your Hard Drive Space
- Recording in Tune with a Tuning Device (for Guitarists)
- Chapter 3 Introducing Multitrack Recording with GarageBand
- Understanding the Role of Stereo in Multitrack Recording.
- Strolling through the Recording Process, Quickly
- Cutting the Tracks ("No Blood on 'em, Mr. Dylan")
- Recording tracks on a Mac
- Recording tracks on an iDevice
- Listening to tracks during recording and playback
- Choosing which tracks you hear
- Deciding a track's fate: Scrap bin, editing room, or mix?
- Changing a track's settings
- Changing a track's instrument
- Checking levels during recording and playback
- Adjusting levels
- Polishing tracks
- Overdubbing
- Sweetening
- Mix That Sucka
- Overview of mixing
- Setting the pan
- (Lord and) Mastering
- Managing Song Files
- Part 2 Making Music on a Mac
- Chapter 4 Getting Started
- General Pane
- Software Instrument Recordings section
- Trackpad section: The Enable Force Touch Trackpad check box
- Accessibility section: Open Plug-ins in Controls View by Default check box
- Reset Warnings button
- Audio/MIDI Pane
- Devices section
- Instruments and Effects section
- MIDI section
- Metronome Pane
- Loops Pane
- Keyword Browsing setting
- Reset Keyword Layout setting
- Loop Browser setting
- My Info Pane
- Advanced Pane
- Audio Recording Resolution setting
- Auto Normalize setting
- Movie Thumbnail Resolution setting
- Chapter 5 Using Loops to Make Music
- What Is a Loop, Anyway?
- Where to find more loops
- Spicing up your songs with loops
- Finding the Right Loop with the Loop Browser
- Viewing loops in button or column view
- Seeing more instruments
- Searching for a loop you love
- Searching in button view
- Searching in column view
- Using the search field
- Filtering by loop type
- Previewing loops
- Keeping your favorite loops at the ready
- Adding third-party loops to the loop browser
- Setting a Loop's Tempo
- Adding Loops to Tracks
- Dragging and dropping loops
- Undoing and redoing a loop.
- Extending, shortening, and repeating loops
- Editing loops: A preview
- Reusing an edited loop in a different song
- Chapter 6 Recording with MIDI and Software Instruments
- What Is MIDI, Anyway?
- Controlling Software Instruments with a MIDI Keyboard
- Choosing Software Instruments
- Recording Tracks with Software Instruments
- Altering the Sound of Software Instruments
- Delving deeper into Smart controls
- Adding and changing plug-in effects
- Equalizer
- Master echo and reverb
- Compressors and other plug-in effects
- Compressor
- Other plug-ins
- Drummer Tracks
- Testing Your Changes
- Chapter 7 Recording Vocals and Acoustic Instruments with a Mic
- Getting Ready to Record
- Setting up your mic and recording track
- Tweaking the pan to hear vocals better
- Positioning the microphone
- Setting levels
- Adding effects
- Checking for unwanted noise
- Multitrack Recording
- Dave Hamilton on multitrack drum recording
- One track at a time
- Multiple tracks at once
- Recording with a MIDI drum
- Recording the Track
- Improving the Sound of Recordings
- Chapter 8 Recording Electric Guitars and Other Electronic Instruments
- Overview from the Top: Direct or Live Recording
- Direct Recording with GarageBand's Virtual Amplifiers
- Setting up to record
- Troubleshooting your setup
- Making a too soft instrument louder
- Setting levels
- Recording the track
- Recording Live with an Amplifier and Microphones
- Customizing the Sound of Your Guitar Tracks
- Changing presets and amp simulators
- Editing presets
- Making other changes
- Part 3 Postproduction: Finishing Songs on a Mac
- Chapter 9 Editing and Polishing Tracks
- "When Should I Edit Tracks?"
- Editing Software Instrument versus Real Instrument Tracks
- Fixing Flubs and Faux Pas
- Punching in and out to replace part of a track.
- Just undo it . . . and then redo it
- Splitting and joining regions
- Silencing mistakes with the track volume control
- Rearranging Regions
- The arrangement track and markers
- Editing Software Instrument Tracks
- Changing the tempo of a song
- Changing the tempo of song parts
- Changing the pitch
- Rearranging notes in a region
- Sweetening: Add New Material? Or Not?
- Percussion
- Backing vocals
- Greek chorus
- Harmony vocals
- Special effects
- Horns, woodwinds, and strings
- Chapter 10 Mixing Tracks into Songs
- What Is Mixing?
- Creating a Level Playing Field
- Roughing it with a rough mix
- A fine tune
- Level meters: Red = dead
- Panning Tracks Left or Right
- The Effects of Adding Effects
- Equalization or not?
- Buying effects
- Echo and reverb
- Compressor
- Chorus
- Doubling Tracks
- The copy-and-paste method
- The re-recording method
- Chapter 11 Mastering Mastering
- What, Exactly, Is Mastering?
- Before You Master
- The Master Track Is for Mastering Tracks
- Applying presets and effects to the master track
- Using presets
- Tweaking effects
- Tweaking master EQ
- Tweaking master echo and master reverb
- Tweaking the compressor and other master effects
- Setting the master volume
- One More Thing Before You Call It "Done"
- Part 4 Making Music with Your iDevice
- Chapter 12 Getting Started
- Global Settings
- Allowing GarageBand access
- Global GarageBand preferences
- Project-Specific GarageBand Settings
- Metronome and count-in
- Tempo, time, and key
- Tempo
- Time and key
- Other settings
- The Control Bar
- Sharing Projects with a Mac (and Vice Versa)
- Chapter 13 Making Music with Live Loops
- Loop Basics
- Find more loops
- More about loops
- Grokking the loop grid
- Working with Loops
- Adding Apple loops to cells
- Finding a loop you love
- Listening to loops.
- Keeping your favorite loops at the ready
- Types of loops
- Working with Cells
- Editing cells
- Undoing and redoing a loop
- Moving cells
- Recording into a cell
- Adding remix FX
- Recording with the Loop Grid
- Chapter 14 Laying Down Software Instrument Tracks
- What Is MIDI, Anyway?
- Controlling Software Instruments with a MIDI Keyboard
- Working with Software Instruments
- Creating a new software instrument track
- Selecting a different instrument
- Recording a software instrument track
- Working with Tracks
- Displaying track headers
- Adding loops
- Working with regions
- Selecting, cutting, copying, and pasting regions
- Splitting and joining regions
- Trimming regions
- Editing your performance in software instrument regions
- Chapter 15 Recording Vocals and Acoustic Instruments with a Mic
- Getting Ready to Record
- Preparing to record
- Positioning the microphone
- Setting levels
- Adding effects
- Tweaking the pan to hear vocals better
- Checking for unwanted noise
- Multitrack Recording
- Dave Hamilton on multitrack drum recording
- One track at a time
- Multiple tracks at once
- Recording with a MIDI drum controller
- Recording the Track
- Improving the Sound of Recordings
- Chapter 16 Recording Guitars and Basses
- Overview from the Top: Direct or Live Recording
- Direct Recording with GarageBand's Virtual Amplifiers
- Setting up to record
- Troubleshooting your setup
- Making a too soft instrument louder
- Setting levels
- Recording the track
- Recording Live with an Amplifier and Microphones
- Customizing the Sound of Your Guitar Tracks
- Changing presets and amp simulators
- Changing and modifying stomp box effects
- Editing presets
- Making other changes
- Part 5 Postproduction: Finishing Songs on an iDevice
- Chapter 17 Editing and Polishing Tracks
- "When Should I Edit Tracks?".
