Garage Band Software Basics

Series Summary

In the past decade the art of audio recording, editing and mixing has been one that has steadily become more available to the public. Today with a computer and a program like Garage Band you can make any kind of music you want and use the program to piece it together and mix it. Garage Band is a perfect example of the ease at which anyone can be creative at music and a testament to the fact that we all have music and creativity saved up in us that is trying to be let out. This is a great video series that addresses all the wonderful possibilities that you can do with Garage Band. This expert, Rattanak Ouk, walks you through everything step by step and shows you just how easy it is to start a new session and either use the built in loops that come with Garage Band or how to record your own instruments live. He shows you how to edit the loops and the real audio from your instrument and also how to add video to the audio you have created. Garage Band is the perfect thing for any musician whether advanced or beginner. It is easy, fun and powerful!

Video Transcript

"Today I'm going to go over a Garage Band. Now Garage Band's another music production software tool that we use on the Mac. This is Garage Band right here, it works a lot like Logic. And you can actually use some of the Garage Band sessions in your Logic eight or Logic seven. What we can do is take a look at the main screen. This is the basic arrange window where you hold all your tracks and it works on layering tracks. You can record tracks one at a time. Under here we have an edit window and as well as a loop browser. We also have an info window or info track info window, as well as for software instruments and for master tracks. On each software instrument and master track, we got details that we can open up. And these are the details of the track. We can add different things like effects and compression. And at the top we have all your regular functions as far as like creating new session and things like that. We also have track options as far as hiding certain parts of your track and bringing up tracks, as well as duplicating and copying. We also have things for your loop browser, ducking and options for your grid."