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This nifty little tip adds a whole new world of sound to your Aperture slideshows. If you’ve got GarageBand installed (and you’ve got that installed if you bought your Mac after 2007) then you’ve got Apple-created loops that can be used in Aperture 3. Hopefully future versions of Aperture will just automatically look for the ... read more
GarageBand has a great collection of build-in loops to use for music creation, but for those who have Soundtrack Pro installed (anyone with either Final Cut Studio or Logic Studio installed) there are even more great Loops to choose from. Select Your Loops In GarageBand, select from the small dropdown at the top of the Loops ... read more
GarageBand 09 is just better than ever, it has definitely had more of an update than just a simple makeover. Apple has added some fantastic new features. One of these gives you the ability to create a custom guitar rig from synthetic stompboxes that have been modelled on vintage equipment. To enable you to do ... read more
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PREMIUM CONTENT: Learn how to mix instruments in GarageBand '09 using Magic GarageBand. This article has premium content available content to download. read more
We were all fired up to make a screencast with steps for creating the AutoTune effect in GarageBand when we came across this one on on YouTube. It’s a lot funnier than what we were going to make anyhow. httpvhd://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OkHT5VrOg read more
GarageBand includes a number of tools inherited from it’s bigger brother Soundtrack Pro designed to help the video creator to add the perfect audio tracks to a video file. Some of these features are possible in the video editing program iMovie, but they’re presented in a cleaner interface Select a New Project You’ll start off with a ... read more
A recent tweet from a reader asked how one could burn a podcast created in GarageBand to a CD. This is actually a breeze, but GarageBand has a bit of an interface issue that doesn’t make it completely obvious. When you’ve created a Podcast, the Share menu automatically changes the terminology for most sharing options ... read more
Many new GarageBand users are surprised to find out that the program doesn’t always use the OS X System Preferences Sound preference selection for it’s audio input. This is actually a great feature, it’s designed so that you can set up a different audio environment for GarageBand than for the rest of your system, but ... read more
Guitar players have a secret-weapon in GarageBand, a built-in tuning tool that samples incoming audio and displays the note being played. To activate it, simply select Control>Show Tuner in LCD or press Command-f. Play your instrument and GarageBand will show you the note. read more
When you create a new file in GarageBand the ruler above the Timeline is set to automatically provide a grid that allows you to line up beats or notes. As you zoom into your timeline, this grid automatically changes. This gives you a lot of flexibility in lining up your notes, but not a lot ... read more
Apple released a few updates today, bringing iTunes to version 8.2 (and adding support for the iPhone 3.0 firmware), Quicktime to 7.6.2 and GarageBand to 5.02. Not a lot of notes on the Apple documentation about these updates, though the GarageBand update notes that it fixes minor issues when purchasing Artist Lessons in the program, ... read more
GarageBand, Apple’s music and podcast creation tool can be expanded with any number of third-party add-on libraries of loops and instruments. The company Bandmate Loops has just released three new collections of libraries for GarageBand. Descriptions: SLD DW Rock Pop Kit – The incredible live sound, mics and general recording of the DW Rock Pop Kit allow ... read more
When you have finished creating your song within GarageBand 09 it is really simple to send it to your iTunes library. Once it is there you can send it to your iPod, iPhone or burn it to a CD. This tutorial is so simple and yet the possibilities it creates and the ability to really take ... read more
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