GarageBand for Mac. From Idea to Final Mastering
A Step by Step Guide to Produce an Original Song until its Release
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GarageBand for Mac. From Idea to Final Mastering
A Step by Step Guide to Produce an Original Song until its Release
About This Book
GarageBand allows you to be, or become, a Producer! You only need to feel like playing.With this manual you will create an original song from scratch touching on all the production stages: from pre-production to drafting the piecefrom the Vocal Line to Intonationfrom Recording to Editingfrom Midi to Sound Designfrom Mix to Mastering... to the ReleaseIllustrated steps will show you in a PRACTICAL way, hands on the mouse, how to produce a song from scratch, and you will also be taught how to avoid the most common mistakes.You'll learn to produce by producing!Do you know the demo buttons, the demos of keyboards sold in music stores or supermarkets?I always press them to understand what I can achieve with that particular model.They let you hear wonderful performances of harmonious sounds and rhythms.It's a pity that once I get home, the keyboard remains a Cinderella dressed in rags, with completely aseptic rhythms and sounds, making me feel partly inadequate, and partly fooled!I don't want to "catch" you, or make you feel fooled! Over the next pages, we're going to create a song together, from the beginning to the end, with hundreds of illustrated steps.I'm going to walk you through it with simple words, easily, the way I wish someone would have explained it to me...GarageBand is music!Music can be a hobby.Music can be a toy.Music can be a workā¦And with GarageBand Music can be you too!!!Compatible with all versions of GarageBand 10, with Downloadable Projects to follow the illustrated steps in the book.There are both projects created with the latest release of GarageBand, to be executed with the latest operating system, and projects created with GarageBand 10.2.0, to be executed on "historic and stoic" Macs with an operating system from El Capitan ( macOS 10.11.6) and later.No user of GarageBand 10, of any version, will be left behind.Inside: 01 Getting Ready for the Adventure02 Discovering GarageBand03 Starting to Produce Our Unreleased Song04 Use the Chisel05 Exploring and Creating Sounds06 Drums and Drum Machines07 MIDI Recording08 MIDI Editing09 Audio Recording10 Creating the Lyrics and the Vocal Line11 Audio Editing12 Tempo and Arrangement Editing13 The Mix - First Part: Balance14 The Mix - Second Part: Automations15 Mastering and PublishingMarco Perino, Owner of the Prosuono studio, lyricist, producer, and post-producer, has the experience of hundreds of concerts, classes, and lessons as a trainer, in a method where practice leaves no room for theory. The result will be only purely "tangible" music. By the same author: "Little Dreams" "ā¦what if the black sheep is me?" "Orange" "Logic Pro X, From Idea to Final Mastering"
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Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Book Dedication
- The Author
- Foreword
- Authorās Note
- Download the Unpublished Song Book Material
- 01 Getting Ready For The Adventure
- Chapther Overview
- GarageBandās History
- System Requirements
- Installation
- Changing Language
- Downloading and Relocating Additional Content
- Keyboard and Mouse
- Setting Advanced Preferences
- Audio Interface and Speakers
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 02 Discovering GarageBand
- Chapther Overview
- Opening āReasonanceā
- Saving a Copy of the Project
- Exploring the Interface
- Listening and Moving in the Project
- Listen to Parts Repeatedly: The Cycle
- Master the Zoom
- Redoing and Saving
- The Library
- Copy and Delete Regions
- Volume, Pan, and plug-ins
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 03 Starting to Produce Our Unreleased Song
- Chapther Overview
- Creating a New Project
- Exploring Apple Loops
- Set the Project Tempo
- Setting Song Length
- Change the Project Key
- Adding Beat
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 04 Use the Chisel
- Chapther Overview
- Adding the Bass
- Adding Synthesizers
- Regions Arrangements
- Removing Parts
- Perfecting the Structure
- Changing the Name of Tracks and Regions
- Customize Region Colors
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 05 Exploring and Creating Sounds
- Chapther Overview
- What a Software Instruments Is
- Exploring Patches by Importing a MIDI File
- The Retro Synth - The Old Fashion Synthesizer
- Vintage B3 Organ - The Organ Emulator
- ES2 and Sculpture
- The Sampler
- Alchemy - GarageBand's Most Powerful Instrument
- Third Party Virtual Instruments
- Sound Design in Our Song
- The Arpeggiator
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 06 Drums and Drum Machines
- Chapther Overview
- Exploring The Drummers
- Customize the Drum Kit
- The Drum Machine
- Creating the Arrangement Track
- Let's Go Get The Drummer
- Drums and Bass, One Thing
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 07 MIDI Recording
- Chapther Overview
- What's MIDI
- GarageBand's Internal Keyboard
- Recording MIDI
- Metronome Settings
- Combine Multiple MIDI Recordings in a Region
- Recording MIDI in Our Song
- Plastering the Holes
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 08 Editing MIDI
- Chapther Overview
- The Pianola
- Piano Roll Quantization
- Edit the Verse Notes with the Pencil
- Copying Lengths and Velocity
- Transforming the Drummer in MIDI
- Changing the Sounds of Kick and Snare
- Painting a Realistic Snare
- Creating a Volume Crescendo
- Renaming Individual Regions
- Refining the Arrangement
- Enriching the Sound
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 09 Audio Recording
- Chapther Overview
- From Real to Digital World
- Input Signal Pre-Fader Monitoring
- Voice Recording
- Recording Bass or Guitar
- Recording Multiple Takes
- Recording Multiple Tracks
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 10 Creating the Lyrics and the Vocal Line
- Chapther Overview
- Creating the Chorus Vocal Line
- Creating the Verse Vocal Line
- Creating the Bridge Vocal Line
- Creating the Back Choruses Vocal Line
- Our Songās Vocal Line
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 11 Audio Editing
- Chapther Overview
- Make a Collage from Different Takes
- Completing the Bass
- Convert Multiple MIDI Tracks to One Audio Track
- Using Auto-Tune
- Remove Blank Spaces from Audio Regions
- Setting the Outro Reverse
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 12 Tempo and Arrangement Edits
- Chapther Overview
- Elasticizing Audio with Flex Time
- Audio Quantization
- Groove Track
- Adding Sections to the Project
- Duplicating and Editing a Section
- Cutting Project Sections
- Mix Preparation
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 13 The Mix - First Part: The Balance
- Chapther Overview
- Room, Monitor Speakers, headphones
- Let's make Drums Volumes and Stereo Image
- Equalizing the Snare
- Setting the Compressor on the Bass
- Adding Reverb Through the Master Track
- Adding Echoes to Expand Depth
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 14 The Mix - Second part: Automations
- Chapther Overview
- Designing Volume and Pan Automations
- Removing Noise from Recordings
- Creating Fades and Crossfades
- Fading the Intro
- Copying Automations
- Automating a Plug-in Parameter
- Creating Vinyl Effects
- Tips for Mixing with Active Automations
- Completing the Mix
- Exporting the Mix for Mastering
- Where We Are - Where We Are Going
- 15 Mastering and Publishing
- Chapther Overview
- Mix vs Mastering
- Importing the Mix
- The Master Track
- Adding Color with the Compressor
- Filtering Low Frequencies
- Copy the EQ from a Reference Track
- Equalizing Our Song with the Master Track
- Setting the Limiter
- Final Export
- Third-Party plug-ins
- Publishing Our Song
- Where We Are Going
- Acknowledgments
- End Titles - Shortcuts in Order of Appearance
- Stay Cute Cover
- Other Projects
- Reasonance Cover
- Riccardo Ruggeri
- Karl & Sara
- Marco Perino Books
- Logic Books
- Share Experience
- Me
- Rear