Guides you in knowing how you need to produce commercial-quality musical recordings entirely on your own. This book explains how to maximize the program's entire set of tools, including pre-recorded loops, sampled sounds, and live recordings. Written for serious musicians and novices, it helps in constructing digital recordings with 'GarageBand'.

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.