Mac Home Recording Studio with GarageBand

Everything users need to know to set up their own home recording studios using Apple's popular GarageBand software.

• GarageBand is already a hit, based on all the wildly favorable reviews it is receiving--from the press and from its users.
• Friendly, project-based guide will have users learning by doing as they create their first hip-hop symphonies with GarageBand.
• Author Christopher Breen is not only a popular Macworld columnist, he's also a professional musician.

It helps that Apple is using in-store appearances by hip musicians like Liz Phair and Rufus Wainwright to promote it, but even without that bait, users would be reaching the same conclusion: That is, Apple's free-on-all-new-Macs (and $49 as part of the iLife '04 suite) GarageBand software is just about the coolest thing to come along for budding musicians since, well, the garage itself! In these pages, the man who wrote the book on the iPod--Secrets of the iPod author Christopher Breen--shows readers how to make at least some of the music they'll want to store and play on their iPods. Through fun projects, friendly instruction, and real-world insights, Chris steps readers through the process of using GarageBand to transform their Macs into the home recording studios they've long coveted. In short order, they'll find themselves turning their Macs into any of 50 supported instruments, plugging in guitars to record their own parts, adding tracks, applying prerecorded loops, mixing hits, and more. Christopher Breen has been writing about the Macintosh since the latter days of the Reagan Administration for such publications as MacUser, MacWEEK, and Macworld. He's the author of Mac 911 and Secrets of the iPod, and he also writes Macworld's tips and troubleshooting column.