Transcript Presentation

GarageBand Continued
Session 09
OVERVIEW
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– GB Preferences
– Recording a voice with a mic
– Recording multiple takes with Cycle Region
• Split regions
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Recording on several tracks at same time
Arrange Regions
Voice effects
Importing audio and midi files
Ducking
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Audio Podcast
General strategies
Markers
Preview
CREATE A NEW PROJECT
• Launch GarageBand (GB)
• At new project window select Piano
• Click Choose
CREATE A NEW PROJECT
• New Project Template
• Keep default tempo and signature and key
• Save As testRecordings.band click Create
GB PREFERENCES
• 5 main sections – one at a time
• GB Menu > Preferences
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General
Audio/Midi – we will cover last
Loops
Advanced
My Info
GENERAL
• Metronome
• Cycle Recording
• Audio preview
LOOPS
• Utilizing the Apple Loops
• Adding loops to timeline converting to real instrument
ADVANCED
• Limit track amounts
• Set audio resolution for quality
• Movie thumbnail would effect RAM usage
MY INFO
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Metadata
What is metadata?
What are reasons for the way it appears below?
What are reasons for changing it?
AUDIO/MIDI
• Setting up inputs and outputs is critical
SETTING UP INPUT IN GB
• Output means speakers/monitors
– System setting means what the Mac OS Sound preference is set to
– Built-in output means the internal speakers in the Mac
– You could have external hardware that controls output that is recognized by OS but
we don’t
• Input means source of sound
– System setting means what the Mac OS Sound preference is set to
– Built-in input means the 3.5mm jack on the back
– Built-in microphone means the Mac’s own mic
MAC OS SOUND
• Apple Menu > System Preferences > Sound
OUR SET UP
• Setting up inputs and outputs is critical
RECORD VOICE with MIC
• New real instrument track
• Rename track “Voice”
– How do we do that?
• Set icon to outline of person
• Track Info>Browse Tab, set input
source to built-in microphone
• Monitor means listen to it while you
are recording
• Likely you do not want that
• Set/confirm inputs
SCRIPT
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Simultaneously, as one big group:
Record your voice with script below (errors intentional)
Speak using deliberate cadence, slow, articulate, that could be replicated
Script
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16,
Confirm recording by playback
SPLITTING REGIONS
• Select the region you want to split
• Move the playhead to the point in the region where
you want to split it
• Choose Edit > Split
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Select your counting sequence track/region
Move playhead to after you say 15
Edit > Split
Playback
RECORD with CYCLE REGION
• Can define specific part of project to record in using cycle region
• Cycle region determines where recording starts and stops
• You can record multiple versions or “takes” then choose the one you
want
• Click Cycle Region button
• Cycle Region appears as yellow strip just below the beat ruler
• Move left edge of cycle region to the point where you want to start
recording by dragging
• Move right edge to point where recording will end
• Having it start earlier than you want is helpful if you are manipulating
both the mouse and the instrument
RECORD with CYCLE REGION
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Select the Real Instrument track you want to record in
Click Record button to start recording
Play or sing and a new region appears in the track
When finished click the play button to stop recording
For additional takes, click the Record button and play again
When finished, click the Cycle button to turn it off
When you record multiple takes, the recorded region has
a circle in upper left corner showing the selected take,
To choose different take:
In timeline, click the circled number in the upper-left
corner of the loop
Takes menu appears
Choose different take
To delete take, choose delete take from the takes menu
To delete all takes, delete unused takes
from the takes menu
RECORD with CYCLE REGION
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Use our 1-15; 20, 19, 18, 17, 16 track recording
Identify the split region from 20-16 for cycling
Re-record correct sequence, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Intentionally make errors to produce multiple takes
– Errors of sequence or errors of voice
• Find the best take
• Fix the original track, confirm with playback
RECORD SEVERAL
TRACKS AT SAME TIME
• In Track Info pane, each Real Instrument track must be set to use
different input source
• Enable tracks for recording
• Click Record in transport controls
IDEAS THAT COME TO MIND
• Given what we’ve learned so far what are some
things you could do with GB?
LETS REVIEW
This is what?
This is what?
This is what?
Questions:
ARRANGING & EDITING
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More on regions and moving regions
Loop regions
Resize regions
Split and join regions
Use arrange track to define sections of project
Transpose regions
Enhance timing of regions
Use timeline grid to snap region to measures, beats or time
REGIONS
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Editing a region does not effect original Apple loop
Purple = Real Instrument from your recording
Blue = Real Instrument from loops
Orange = Regions imported from audio files
Green = Software Instrument from recording or loop
• Selecting regions
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– For multiple regions, shift-click
– Dragging
• Cut, copy, paste all traditional cut, copy, paste
MOVING REGIONS
• Drag left or right in timeline
• Drag up or down to different track of same track
type
• Delete a region
SPLITTING REGIONS
• Select the region you want to split
• Move the playhead to the point in the region where
you want to split it
• Choose Edit > Split
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Select your counting sequence region
Move playhead to after you say 5
Edit > Split
Repeat by placing playhead after you say 10
Edit > Split
Playback
JOINING REGIONS
• Regions must be same type
• Regions must be adjacent to each other on same
track
• Select the regions you want to join
• Choose Edit > Join
– If joining audio/real instruments you will be asked if you
want to create a new audio file. Click Create to join.
– Apple Loops cannot be joined
• Select your two regions
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– 6-10
• Choose Edit > Join
IMPACT OF DELETING
REGIONS
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First lets split up again
Select your counting sequence region
Move playhead to after you say 5
Edit > Split
Repeat by placing playhead after you say 10
Edit > Split
Playback
Second, deleting them and impact on rest of track
Last week we selected region, pressed delete and
created empty space
• This week, select region, Edit > Delete and Move
• What happened?
RESIZE REGIONS
• Resize region
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Move pointer over lower half of either edge
Pointer becomes resize pointer
Drag the edge to shorten or lengthen
This will add silence; useful for making copies of certain
number of beats
LOOPING REGIONS
• Looping regions
– Looping means repeat over time, it will play for as much
time as you extend the timeline
– Drawing the original region into copies or partial copies
– No effect on playhead in sense of looping
• Move pointer/cursor over the upper half of the right
edge of the region
• Pointer changes to a loop pointer with circular arrow
• Drag the right edge of the region to the point where
you want it to stop playing
• When you playback, the region will playback
multiple times depending on the drag
• So last week we copied and pasted multiple copies
of same loop into 2 regions; alternatively you could
just draw out the region with this loop method
ARRANGE TRACK & REGIONS
• Choose Track > Show Arrange Track
• Arrange Track appears at top of timeline below beat
ruler
• Click on the plus side to add
• Default is 4 measures long and named “untitled”
• Hold mouse down over “untitled” to rename
• To move Arrange Region click and drag
– Will move all tracks and regions under it
– Good for copies of verse/chorus
– Good for reorganizing major sections
TRANSPOSING
• When you add a region to the timeline the region is
matched or transposed to the key of the project
• You can transpose manually
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Select the 1-20 track
Select entire track or one region within it
Edit mode
Check box Follow Tempo & Pitch
Slide Pitch slider up/down
Measured in semi-tones
VOICE EFFECTS
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New Project > Voice
Record enable either male or female voice track
Record yourself saying simple 1 sentence
Playback, confirm it sounds like you
Track>Duplicate Track; copy/paste region
Lock to preserve original; we will edit copy
VOICE EFFECTS
• Track Info button > Edit tab
• Add an effect > Speech Enhancer
• Male or Female Radio
IMPORTING MIDI
• Download DTNA.mid from course website
– Session 09
• Drag the midi file from the Mac OS to the timeline,
either software instrument track or empty area
below existing tracks
• Click on any one track containing imported midi
• Click on Edit button
• Click on Score view
• You know have sheet music for tracks
IMPORTING MIDI
• Notice how GB creates multiple tracks for the midi
parts
• Assigns each track an instrument (varies)
– This structure imposed by midi creator
– Interpreted by your machine
– May not always match
• Each can be altered to fit your needs
• In DTNA.mid lets:
– Identify melody line (line 1)
» Change instrument to Guitars> Classical Acoustic
– Identify main rhythm line (line 3)
» Change instrument to Strings > Hollywood Strings
– Mute rest of parts
IMPORTING AUDIO
• Download centralEducator2.aif from course website
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• Drag the audio file from Mac OS to timeline, either
to Real Instrument track or empty area below
existing tracks
• AIFF, WAV, AAC (except protected AAC files),
Apple lossless, MP3 all supported
• Compressed files (AAC and MP3) remain
compressed
DUCKING
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Mute the centralEducator2.aif track
Auto feature for balancing levels of two tracks
Control>Ducking
Ducking control appears in each track’s header
Tracks with upperward pointing arrows are lead
tracks
– This is your one sentence recording track
• Tracks with downward pointing arrows backing
tracks
– All other tracks
• Track > Show Track Info > Master Track
• Click Edit to adjust
SHARING
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The GB file itself
iTunes
To Disk
Burn CD
THE GB FILE ITSELF
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File > Save As…
Check box Archive project
Moving between machines
Pointer files
iTUNES
• Share > Send to iTunes
• Change tags for playlist, artist, album, and composer
– Metadata
• Compression settings
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– AAC and MP3
TO DISK
• Share > Export Song To Disk
• Compress gives you options
BURN CD
• Burn the project to cd
• If you had entire album with silence between songs you
could master the whole disc
• If you have tracks muted they usually don’t get bounced
OVERVIEW
• Audio Podcast
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New project to learn podcast features
General strategies
Markers
Preview
Podcast Track Info
• Basic Audio Podcast recording
AUDIO PODCAST
• Create a new project
– Select Podcast, then click Choose
CREATE A NEW PROJECT
• At New Project from Template dialog box
• Keep default tempo and signature and key
• Save As audioPodcast.band click Create
GB WINDOW
• 4 new tracks
– Podcast track, Male Voice, Female Voice, Jingles
• Podcast Editor area
GENERAL STRATEGIES
• Narration or spoken voice recorded in Real Instrument tracks
• Use either male or female tracks
– Real Instrument
• Confirm GB preferences and input & output settings of Mac’s
microphone
• Ducking happens by default
GENERAL STRATEGIES
• Use Apple loops, Musical typing from previous weeks
• Jingles, stingers, effects
– Categories and searchable just like loops
– Treat just like other loops we have used
Jingles are complete background music tracks
– For use behind narration or dialogue, between spoken segments, or as intro/outro
– Long, medium, and short jingles available
– Loop Browser (eyeball)
• Stingers are brief sounds
– Used as transition or for punctuation between speakers or sections of a podcast
– Loop Browser
• Sound effects
– Sounds of people, animals, machines, room ambience
– Loop Browser
MARKERS
• Markers make it an “enhanced” podcast
• Primarily for audience experience
– Add enhancements
• Markers appear in podcast track as a marker region
– Can help developer recognize portions of longer recordings
MARKERS
• Add a marker, name it, edit if necessary
• To add a marker
– Click the podcast track
– Move playhead to the place where you want to add marker
– Click the Add Marker button at the bottom of the editor
• To Move a marker
– In podcast track drag marker region to new position
– In Editor, click the start time for the marker and enter new start time
• To Resize a marker
– Drag either left or right edge of the marker region to the point where you want to
resize it
• To Delete a marker
– Select the marker region, press Delete key
– In the Editor, select marker in list, then press Delete key
MARKERS
• Can add artwork, URLs, and URL titles to a marker region
• Fairly self-evident
– Click to edit text
– Type or paste in URLs
PREVIEW
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In Podcast Track Header
Click to Open Preview Window
Press space bar
Click link
PODCAST TRACK INFO
• Often referred to as Episode information
– Available in iTunes by audience
• Edit metadata
• Set Parental Advisory
• Add Description
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
• Use jingles or loops to help with time requirements of our course
requirement
• Cut and fade jingles/loops out to correct duration of assignment
• No requirement in syllabus to use markers although could be part of
the instructional design
• In my tests URLs appeared at bottom of artwork on my iPad
BASIC AUDIO PODCAST
RECORDING
• Syllabus says “Consists of a script and development of voiceover for
sequential lesson plan/instructional unit”
• Rubric says, for Exemplary :
• 1:55-2:00 minutes
• Highly Instructive, effective schema; detailed script and storyboard
– Turn in the storyboard
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Attach as text file
Scan to pdf if necessary
Turn in hardcopy is fine
No noticeable sounds on the recording outside of the voice
Voice is exceptionally clear and understandable
Edits are perfectly executed; no noticeable cuts
Audio is exported in correct format
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Use AAC and Higher Quality (not .wav)
BUILD IT
• Your turn
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Stay here and practice with your script
Practice recording, speaking, editing, splitting
Locate a .mid file, edit it
Use ducking to address the voice track and midi track
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– Take laptop to next door, 319, 330 or 336
– I brought in some microphones that need to be returned to
me
– Start recording your course requirement
NEXT SESSION
• Audio podcasts and podcast recording
• We will do actual recording
• Need laptop, mics (I will bring some), script
MUSICAL TYPING
• You can play and record software instruments using computer
keyboard
• Using the top and middle rows like a musical keyboard
• Window menu > Musical typing
• Keys in middle row on computer keyboard are the white keys in a one
and one-half octave range from C through F
• Computer keys W, E, T, Y, U, O, and P in top row are the black keys
or sharps/flats
• Press Z to move down by an octave
• Press X to move up by an octave
• Small keyboard at top to of Musical Typing window to move around
piano keyboard
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MUSICAL TYPING
Mute the 1-20 track
Create a new software track
Record enable it
Position playhead after counting 1-20 region
Song we will play expressed in computer keys is:
A W S E rest
F T rest
S E F T rest
JU
ETU
HYHYHYHY
HYTEWE
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MUSICAL TYPING
Notice color-coded keys
Pressing this while playing/typing adds the effect
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Pitch bend, modulation, velocity, sustain
SCORE VIEW
• You can edit Software Instrument regions in standard music notation
format
• Edit notes, other musical events,
• Select a Software Instrument region
• Go into Edit mode by clicking edit button
• Click the Score button at top of editor’s header area
EDITING NOTES
• Add notes
– From Insert menu, choose note value you want
– In Editor, Command-Click at the point where you want to add the note (like
writing music)
• Select notes
– Click the note head (round part)
– Shift click to select several or by dragging around notes to enclose them
• Move notes
– Select note(s), drag left or right or with left/right arrow keys
– Use beat guide to keep track of exact position in time
• Copy notes
– Option-drag the note head to a new position
• Change pitch
– Select the note, drag it up or down the staff or with Up/Down arrows
• Change duration
– Select note
– Drag the right edge of the duration bar left (to shorten) or right (to lengthen)
• Change velocity
– Select note, then drag the Velocity slider left or right
• Delete notes
– Select note, press delete key
• Print sheet music with File>Print
RINGTONES
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Ringtones must be 40 seconds or less
Alerts must be 30 seconds or less
Save project with intended ringtone name
Share>Send Ringtone to iTunes
In iTunes: Select device; Tones Pane; sync
***do this with a library associated with your device
BASIC AUDIO PODCAST
RECORDING
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Rest of class session
Split up into individual rooms
Record your script/storyboard voice
Add the jingles, loops, etc
Remember the ducking
I will be bouncing between the counseling locations and the main
room here
• Come look for me for trouble-shooting
• When finished class is over
• Send files to my email [email protected]