GarageBand '09 Power!

Ready to explore music composition, recording, podcasting, audio/video blogging, remixing/mashing, and sound design for video editing or DVD creation with GarageBand? Great! This book will show you how. GarageBand is one of the most powerful and user-friendly tools available for capturing and manipulating sound, and the best part is, it comes free with your Mac! Although GarageBand has always been easy to use, it provides an amazing amount of power and sophistication to users who really want to dig in and get the most out of it. GarageBand '09 Power! provides an easy-to-understand, detailed guide for how to make professional-sounding music, podcasts, soundtracks, mixes, mashups, and much more with the newest version of GarageBand. Through the use of screenshots, tutorials, creative jumping-off points, real-world examples, and a conversational, personal tone, this book will teach you how to use GarageBand to create music, record and publish podcasts, or even score your own movie. Whether you're just starting out with audio creation, or you are already familiar with GarageBand and simply want to take your skills to the next level, GarageBand '09 Power! is for you.

Ready to explore music composition, recording, podcasting, audio/video blogging, remixing/mashing, and sound design for video editing or DVD creation with GarageBand? Great! This book will show you how. GarageBand is one of the most powerful and user-friendly tools available for capturing and manipulating sound, and the best part is, it comes free with your Mac! Although GarageBand has always been easy to use, it provides an amazing amount of power and sophistication to users who really want to dig in and get the most out of it. GarageBand '09 Power! provides an easy-to-understand, detailed guide for how to make professional-sounding music, podcasts, soundtracks, mixes, mashups, and much more with the newest version of GarageBand. Through the use of screenshots, tutorials, creative jumping-off points, real-world examples, and a conversational, personal tone, this book will teach you how to use GarageBand to create music, record and publish podcasts, or even score your own movie. Whether you're just starting out with audio creation, or you are already familiar with GarageBand and simply want to take your skills to the next level, GarageBand '09 Power! is for you..

Todd Howard, founder of Massachusetts-based creative media production / consulting company Howard Digital Media, and has conducted hundreds of hours of training seminars and one-on-one instruction on GarageBand, iLife, Mac OS X, Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, as well as Adobe® PhotoShop® and GoLive®. Howard is also a professional musician and singer/songwriter and regularly performs with four-piece new American roots band Last Fair Deal, family friendly rock outfit Spaghetti Cake, and as a solo singer and guitarist. He is the author and instructor of Inside Mac OS X: 10.4 Tiger (Magnet Media, 2005) and Inside iLife -06 (Magnet Media, 2006) DVD titles-part of Magnet's Digital Media Training Series (DMTS), and is the author of Who's Afraid of HTML?(Morgan Kaufmann, 1999) A beginner's primer to HTML and website design. Todd also produced and co-edited the indie feature film The Trouble with Boys and Girls (Home Movies, 2003). He currently lives in northwestern Massachusetts with his wife Erika.