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"Whether you're a professional musician or a mere novice, Apple's GarageBand software has everything you need to produce commercial-quality recordings, entirely on your own. Just imagine how many thousands of singers and instrumentalists remain undiscovered because they lack the capability to produce viable demos. Well, no more. Now there's no need to assemble a backup band or book time at a professional studio. GarageBand has it covered. And ""GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual"" gives you the know-how you need to make it all happen. It's an authoritative, witty guide to constructing digital recordings with GarageBand. Written by the master of the ""Missing Manual"" series, and a musician himself, David Pogue, this top-selling book shows you how to maximize the program's entire set of tools. Pre-recorded loops, sampled sounds, live recordings - they're all explained in easy-to-understand language. It also shows you how to apply professional-sounding effects like reverb or chorusing, and then export the finished product to iTunes, where you can download your work to an iPod, export it as an MP3, or burn it onto CDs. Now revised to reflect GarageBand's latest features, this book's second edition also addresses how to: use GarageBand's eight-track capabilities; display music notation in real time; enhance timing and pitch for better quality recordings; change the tempo and key of recorded instruments; and tune guitars with GarageBand before recording. So if you're chasing a dream or just having fun, ""GarageBand 2: The Missing Manual"" is the only resource you need to make the finest musical recordings possible."

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"David Pogue, Yale '85, is the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. With nearly 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how-to authors, having written or co-written seven books in the ""for Dummies"" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music), along with several computer-humor books and a technothriller, ""Hard Drive"" (a New York Times ""notable book of the year""). Pogue is also the creator and primary author of the Missing Manual series of complete, funny computer books, a joint venture with O'Reilly & Associates. Titles in the series include Mac OS X, Windows XP, iPod, Microsoft Office, iPhoto, Dreamweaver, iMovie 2, and many others. His Web page is www davidpogue.com, and his email address is david@pogueman.com."

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