Garage Band Handout
Garage Band Handout
Garage Band Handout
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Stephanie Chasteen, Exploratorium Teacher Institute [email protected] or http://www.exo.net/~drsteph 10. Record your voice. Lower down your garage band window, below your track, is a larger red circle button . This is the record button press it and speak into the microphone. It should now be recording. You should see a wave form appearing in the track you created. When you want to stop recording press the record button again (or alternatively press the space bar). You may need to press the play button to stop the playhead from moving. EDITING: 1. Listen back to your recording. Do this by clicking the rewind button to get you back to the beginning and then pressing the play button. You can stop playing by pressing the spacebar. 2. Decide which bits of audio you want to delete. Listen back to the piece again and decide what you want to keep and what you want to delete. 3. Mark the start of your edit. Select the portion of audio by clicking on it, so it changes to dark purple. Move the red vertical line (the play head) to the point where you want to delete audio. Do this by clicking and dragging on the triangle at the top of the play head to that point. Press the Apple key and the T key simultaneously in order to split the waveform in 2. (Fig 1)
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4. Delete the bits you dont want. Now that you have split the wave into two you can highlight the half that you dont want to keep by clicking on it. If both portions are highlighted, click elsewhere on the screen to deselect both, and then click on the half you want to delete. Once it is highlighted press backspace to delete it. (Fig 2 and 3)
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Stephanie Chasteen, Exploratorium Teacher Institute [email protected] or http://www.exo.net/~drsteph 5. Make sure the edit sounds right. Move the play head back and listen to the piece to check it sounds the way you want. If it doesnt, you can adjust your edit by dragging the edges of your wave form in or out to trim it (Fig 4).
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EXPORTING: When you are happy with your piece you are ready to export it as an audio file. 1. Go to the Share menu and choose Export Song to iTunes. 2. This will open your song in iTunes. To export it to MP3 format go to the Advanced menu in iTunes (or right-click on the file) and select Convert Selection to MP3. 3. Now we need to find the MP3 File. Right click (or Ctrl Click) on the song in iTunes and choose Show in Finder. Choose the file with the .mp3 extension. This is ready to upload.
Note: Your MP3 conversion settings are in iTunes Preferences Advanced Importing. Make sure it says Import Using: MP3 encoder. Click Setting: Custom and you can change your settings. We use 96 kbps, mono, at 44.1 kHz.
ADDING MUSIC OR OTHER AUDIO FILES TO YOUR PODCAST: There are 3 ways to add music into your project: using the jingles supplied with GarageBand; via iTunes; or via Finder. 1. GarageBand Jingles. a. Create a New Track by going to the Track drop-down menu and select New Track then Real Instrument and Create. b. View the Loop Browser by clicking on the button which looks like an eye at the bottom left of GarageBand (Fig 6).
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c. Click on the podcast icon at the bottom of the loop browser. (Fig 7)
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d. Choose Jingles, then choose a style of jingle (Cinematic, Country etc.) , and then which jingle you want from the rightmost pane. e. Drag that jingle onto the new track you created, at the point you would like it to go. 2. From iTunes. a. Create a New Track by going to the Track drop-down menu and select New Track then Real Instrument and Create. b. Then click on the media browser button, which is at the bottom right with pictures of a musical note and film on it. (Fig 8)
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c. The Media Browser will appear. Select Audio in the media browser, then select iTunes. d. Select the song you want from iTunes and drag it to the new track you created, at the point you would like it to appear. 3. From Finder a. Create a New Track by going to the Track drop-down menu and select New Track then Real Instrument and Create. b. Open Finder and find the music file you are after. Drag it to the new track you created.