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GarageBand Audio Unit Effects Tutorial

Posted by Hemos on from the learning-more-about-it dept.

LG writes "The wild popularity of Apple's new music program, GarageBand, has surprisingly not yielded much in the way of instructions or guides (the program does not come with a manual, printed or electronic -- just some simple tutorial PDFs). Thus, there are many cool but totally undocumented features in GarageBand. MacJams.com has recently posted a fairly lengthy tutorial on the built-in Audio Unit effects in GarageBand, including things like delay, filters, compressor, reverb, etc. Hopefully similar documentation will start to pop up."

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  1. Doh by pldms · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...and the frequency would be the length of the wave, i.e., wavelength

    Nice article, but things like that pain me...

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  2. Re:where's the manual? by rjung2k · · Score: 4, Informative

    IIRC, MacOS X 10.3 ("Panther") came with a small booklet telling you how to get started with the OS -- how to use the "help" menu to learn more about information, how to reboot and repair your computer from the CD if something goes wrong, etc.

    So it's not quite as bleak as you make it out to be. It's just a "play around and discover more" philosophy, instead of an "overwhelm the user with a thick manual" approach.

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