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Working with synth sounds - GarageBand Tutorial
From the course: GarageBand Essential Training
Working with synth sounds
- [Instructor] Even though we haven't gone specifically into the details of working with every single software instrument here, in this movie, I did want to go a little bit into working with the synth instruments in GarageBand. I'm gonna create a new project with the keyboard collection and as we've seen before this generates a new project with several piano, organ and synthesizers tracks already created for us. I'm just gonna close the library so we can see that selection a little bit more. I'll just pull my volume down a little bit here. (piano sound) So you can see all of my keyboards that are here by default and the Smart Control panel is also opened by default and with each instrument we select, we see different Smart Controls. So for instruments like with the piano and the electric piano, we see knobs for tone control, compression and effects. For the organ we see switches and the sliders like you'd see on a real organ. And then for some of the synthesizers, for example in this…
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Understand MIDI and Musical Typing7m 35s
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Connect a keyboard controller3m 23s
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Record a software instrument track5m 10s
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Cycle recording6m 31s
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Split a drum track into multiple tracks6m 40s
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Edit software tracks10m 15s
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Create a click track6m 52s
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Working with synth sounds6m 18s
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