GarageBand '11 Power!: The Comprehensive Recording and Podcasting Guide 1st Edition

Great book. fun and a quick . Gave me the tools to get started, but podcasting section was a bit weak. That was the main reason I bought the book. The section with screen shots of all different set up's seems a bit of a waste. Overall, helpful for my needs.

Admittedly, I am only about half way through the book, so I will write another review when I'm finished. Something that always irks me is when the editor of a book misses grammar and spelling mistakes. This book has at least two in the first chapter. Another problem is that the diagrams and graphics are not much more than a waste of space. I'm estimating that they take up nearly a third of the print and most of them are so blurred that you can't read them. With that said, I am getting some useful information so far, but had I known that the diagrams take up so much space I would have spent more on a "juicier" manual.

At 67% I am still waiting to learn something NEW.... Guess I was more advanced than I realized.... But that is just me,,,,

I purchased two books, GarageBand '11- How It Works (copyright 2013) and the more exhaustive GarageBand '11 Power: The Comprehensive Recording and Podcasting Guide (copyright 2012) to help me walk through and become familiar with the general organization of Garageband. My purpose being to learn how to record some demos in aid of securing gigs in new to me venues in the singer songwriter genre. I am posting this review for both.I have years of playing in and running sound in live rock bands so I can claim familiarity with mixing boards and general audio signal paths, inserts, etc. I have also played around with ProTools, but stopped short of climbing the very steep learning curve of that pro level DAW.Both of these works are reasonably well written and are decent at describing the recording workflow. What they both lack is being updated to conform to the latest edition of the GarageBand (10.0.1 at the time I'm writing this). The window content is significantly different, not dramatically, but significantly and if you are counting on being able to proceed by following the written directions/ screen shots in these books, you will not succeed and you will be frustrated. I note that even the brief Apple website video tutorials are equally, if not mores out of date.I don't know of/ have not yet discovered an up to date resource manual/ user's guide for GarageBand, so I have no alternative material to suggest, but I doubt I would purchase these works again.

Read other reviews about; too many pictures, bad illustrations, too technical. B.S., all non-issues. In fact the more the better, as far as screen shots go.Also the pictures were fine. Had no trouble understanding, in fact it also explained alot about the Mac too.I dunno, I thought it was really helpful nad easy to follow along. 5 stars for sure.

I have been looking for an updated reference for Garageband for awhile and ordered this based on its 4-star review average. I was disappointed. It has numerous editing mistakes and the illustrations appear to be scans done on a home copier. If you are already using GB you probably know 90% of the material covered here.Wish GB for Dummies would get an update.

This book is absolutely necessary for anyone that is trying to use GarageBand 11. Well written and loads of shortcuts as well as many recording tips from an experienced user!

riends in GarageBand land: I'm still looking for that perfect book to help beginners to GarageBand learn GarageBand 11. The suggestion for the book, "GarageBand '11 Power!" -- well, this is not the book. The author is passionate but spends the first 58 pages telling you what he is going to tell you later in the book, so a reader must keep slogging along, not really being told anything, not learning any real how-to tips or new-you-can-use until ... who knows when?Sadly, this book does not fill the niche for the beginner.Wish there was a MIssing Manual edition for a later GarageBand issue. I'm picking up how-to tips from various places. The Missing Manual for GarageBand 1.1 was terrific.

This will help you to find out everything you need in great detail , a very concise book

The full MAC GarageBand experience can be a bit daunting getting started for a newcomer. This is just what I needed. Great to understand the concepts and get to grips, then excellent for reference.

Very pleased

Whilst some parts of this book prove useful, others are frankly less than useful. I can read and write music in the conventional manner, i.e. using a score.The author dismisses the notion of score writing in less than a sentence.page 191 : "Because I never learned to read musical notation, the Score view is of little or no use to me"Well great for you but I've just shelled out sixteen quid for your book and maybe you could have done me the courtesy ofresearching a little deeper with a little help from a friend in order to enlighten us old-fashioned people who would benefitfrom maybe one or two pages of explanation.

I recently resuscitated an older MacBook (polycarbonate) with a small SSD and a bit more RAM and I'm acutely aware that it'll never be a viable internet machine (OS 10.7.5), but I can however, use it as a standalone Garageband tool. I installed iLife '11 and thanks to "GarageBand '11 Power!" I'm on my way to home-recording heaven. The book shows only mild signs of wear, but it's full of the information I need to come to grips with the app.