Making Music with GarageBand and Mixcraft - Softcover

Robin Hodson; James Frankel; Richard McCready; Michael Fein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1435458702 ISBN 13: 9781435458703

Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR, 2010

Synopsis

MAKING MUSIC WITH GARAGEBAND AND MIXCRAFT provides music educators and self-learners with a comprehensive guide to music production using two of the most inexpensive and intuitive music software recording programs on the market today. Although easy to use, the tools included in GarageBand and Mixcraft are powerful enough to create music worthy of inclusion in professional productions, and their interfaces and workflows prepare users to work with professional studio-level digital audio workstation programs, such as Logic and Pro Tools. The book is far from a simple software guide. The first chapters introduce the programs, how to use them, and how to get the best audio results from any home or school computer setup. The subsequent chapters help develop creativity and guide the reader (with a very gentle learning curve) into using these programs not only to make recordings, but also to compose and produce great music. This book includes 12 specific lessons for GarageBand and 12 specific

About this title

About the Author:

Robin Hodson is the Mid-Atlantic Manager for Soundtree, based in Baltimore, MD. He comes from a musical family; his grandfather founded a symphony orchestra and music conservatory in Zimbabwe, and his mother taught music for fifty years. An accomplished composer and performer, working in a variety of genres, Mr. Hodson is also a recording engineer, songwriter and arranger. He received a Masters Degree at Magdalen College, Oxford before moving to the US in 1999. He was with Sibelius/Avid for thirteen years, and trained universities and schools all over the US and Canada on how to use Avid music technology products, before joining Soundtree in the summer of 2009. He has authored several free quick start guides on how to use and learn Sibelius, Groovy Music and Pro Tools, and he has just completed writing a curriculum for using Pro Tools in education. More information on Mr. Hodson can be found at www.robinhodson.com.

Review:

Introduction. 1. Using Mixcraft. 2. Lessons with Mixcraft. 3. Using GarageBand. 4. Lesson with GarageBand.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1435458702
• ISBN 13: 9781435458703
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288