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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."

3 of 45 comments (clear)

  1. Apple's Documentation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I realize Apple feels their programs should be simple enough to not require documentation, but they definitely should rethink that stance. The more complicated the programs get the more they require decent documentation.

    1. Re:Apple's Documentation by Achernar · · Score: 5, Interesting
      I might also point out (to myself) that Apple's stance of not including documentation with its products might be enhancing their reputation of "easy-to-use out of the box." Without an imposing manual through which to read, people might assume more readily that they can simply jump into a program and be able to figure it out.

      Less imposing?

  2. Re:where's the manual? by Achernar · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...there's no manual to explain how to use the help menu.

    Actually, that's under "help" as well...