Apple GarageBand Tutorial: Lesson 2 - Manual

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Lesson 2:
Working With Real Instruments
If you sing or play a musical instrument, you can connect a microphone or an electric musical
instrument to your computer and record your performances in a Real Instrument track. Each
recording appears as a region in the track. You can add effects to a Real Instrument track, and
edit Real Instrument regions in the track editor.
What You'll Need
To work with Real Instruments, you’ll need to have each of the following items on hand:
• Enough free hard disk space to record to (stereo CD-quality recording requires about 10 MB of
disk space per minute of recording)
• A microphone to record voices or acoustic musical instruments, or an electric musical
instrument you want to record
• Audio cables to connect the microphone or instrument to your computer
• Optionally, an audio interface to connect the microphone or instrument to your computer
Before You Begin
To make it easier to follow the lesson as you work, print the lesson before you start.
In many of the tasks shown in this lesson you need to choose menu commands. In the lessons,
and in the GarageBand Help, menu commands appear like this:
Choose Edit > Join Selected.
The first term after Choose is the name of the menu in the GarageBand menu bar. The term (or
terms) following the angle bracket are the items you choose from that menu.