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Luanne Eris Fose, Ph.D.

Introduction

Tap into your inner Mozart! GarageBand is an application that allows you to create your own

music (pros and novices alike) and turns your Macintosh into a digital recording studio. You

don’t have to play the piano, you don’t have to read music, you don’t even have to have rhythm!

Tired of messing with issues of copyright when using music for your PowerPoints, videos,

digital photo albums or other presentations? Make your OWN music by learning how to

manipulate infinite combinations of the over 1,000 loops that Apple provides in this powerful

software tool. These professionally-recorded riffs by world-class musicians are royalty-free

interludes, played in a variety of moods and genres. GarageBand does not require that you use

a synthesizer keyboard or other MIDI instrument but if you have one and are musically-inclined,

you can even make BETTER music by recording your own tracks and using GarageBand to lay

down additional background tracks. Just like the pro’s, you can tweak your own loops and/or

recordings with processed effects such as reverb or grand chorus. When your masterpiece is

finished, export it to iTunes 4 for use in your iMovie, iPhoto, or PowerPoint/Keynote

presentation, or even transfer it to your iPod for your own personal enjoyment!

GarageBand’s Musical Components

GarageBand consists of three musical components: 1) Loops: These are pre-recorded audio

loops of both sampled or synthesized instruments; 2) Software Instruments: These are MIDI

tracks created either with software synthesizers controlled via a MIDI keyboard or with

GarageBand’s on-screen keyboard; and 3) Real Instruments: These are digital audio tracks live

performance recordings of real instruments or vocals through the Mac’s audio port or an audio

interface.

All three of these components display as separate tracks within the GarageBand Timeline. You

can add as many tracks as you need in order to complete your composition and use any

mixture of the above three components. You are only limited by the amount of RAM on your

computer.

Actually, you can get around that problem by combining multiple tracks into one track (a

process the pro’s called bouncing). Create as many tracks as your Mac allows, mix them to

your satisfaction (i.e., balancing volume etc. so they can still be heard when you add other

tracks later), then export them into iTunes as one .AIF file. Import the .AIF file back into

GarageBand as one merged track by dragging it from iTunes into the Finder and then drag the

exported file from the Finder into GarageBand’s Timeline. Continue to record additional tracks

and repeat this process as necessary until you have completed your project. Basically, this

method allows you to create a virtually unlimited number of tracks!

Let’s not waste any time… let’s create a song file and get started!

Note: A great deal of this tutorial was extracted from Apple’s GarageBand Tutorials but

placed in somewhat different order for better understanding.

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