Garage Band Functions

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

"The next thing I'm going to go over is just different parts of exploring Garage Band. There's a bunch of different little pop up menus and different t hings you can open up to tweak out sounds and adjust different parts of the track. You can also do different things such as far as zooming to try to quantize things a certain way as well as try to edit it in way where your tracks would be more by drawing in data or bringing in samples, whatever. Also, I'm going to go over the alpha loops and how those work and how you're able to bring those in and combine those with your song. So you fill in your songs and add more of a live audio feel to them. I mean there's a lot of software instruments that you could use within Garage Band. There's also a lot of different packs you can use. In this thing, I can also explain to you about different jam packs and different upgrades that you can add to your Garage Band to help, you know, fill up your sound libraries and your audio files. Sometimes you get something like Logic 8 that comes with a bunch of extra Garage Band things that help fill it up so you can come up with even more sounds."