Power Tools for GarageBand: Creating Music with Audio Recording, MIDI Sequencing, and Loops

By Francis Preve

(Power Tools). Apple's GarageBand is the hottest and most accessible digital music software available today, giving musicians of all levels an affordable tool to create extraordinary sounds. Power... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879308230
• ISBN13: 9780879308230
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Backbeat Books
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Very Happy with the whole process

Good item as described. fast delivery. i would buy from this seller again.

This is the manual that should have come with Garageband

Clear, concise, and informative. Lots of useful examples. Plus, anybody who would include a discussion of hocketing automatically gets 5 stars.

info unavailable elsewhere

Toying with Garageband gave me a burning curiousity about what went on "under the hood" of its deceptively simple looking synthesizers. Francis answers these along with many other questions I may not have thought to ask. He discusses GB2, which apparently did not include the "hybrid" synths found in GB3. He also missed that the Tonewheel Organ's drawbars can be varied with a foot controller pedal [cc4]. His included software CD is somewhat outdated, but led me to an intriguing free software synth [Automat] that I had not known about.

Well written and designed to jump start your creative process.

In concise and clear prose, Francis Preve explains a variety of techniques you can use in Garageband to make the best use of the software. He assumes you are comfortable with Macs, and does not start from absolute zero. I'm a regular Mac user, and have has some experience with music software before, so I really appreciated this. It keeps the book short and to the point. The approaches, tips, tricks, and advice he offered saved me a great deal of time in grasping all that Garageband is capable of, and also, how best to deal with its limitations.

Awesome Book!

I got this book for free from the Author after he did a presentation about GarageBand at the Houston Galleria. (Signed, too. hehe) Since my PowerBook is in the shop for HD failure, I got on my brother's iBook and used Garageband and the book. It is so well written, he explains things in english, without watering down the info too much, and it's really helpful to have the accompanying pictures. If you get a chance to see this guy's presentation, DO SO! It is great to just watch him do his thing. It's like breathing for him. He is also one REALLY cool guy.