Overview
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Learn how to make music with GarageBand, the recording, editing, and mixing software that comes with every Mac.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Capture your musical visions with GarageBand
- Understand the GarageBand layout
- Create a new project
- Add tracks
- Understand region types
- Work with the Tempo track
- Browse the loop library
- Understand the difference between Software and Real Instrument loops
- Add loops to your project and customize them
- Change loop settings
- Transpose loops
- Import audio tracks
- Use Drummer to create custom drumbeats
- Understand MIDI and Musical Typing
- Connect a keyboard controller
- Record a software instrument track
- Cycle recording
- Split a drum track into multiple tracks
- Edit software tracks
- Create a click track
- Working with synth sounds
- Get real sounds into your Mac
- Set input levels
- Record a Real Instrument track
- Record and composite multiple takes
- Enable simultaneous multitrack recording
- Customize the guitar sound
- Customize the bass sound
- Fix timing issues with Flex Time and groove matching
- Get organized
- Use the Arrangement track
- Equalizing tracks
- Use plugins
- Automate volume and panning
- Lock tracks to improve system performance
- Mixing
- Use the master track
- Use the Share menu
- Save your project to iCloud to access from other Macs
- Archive your project
- Next steps
