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Working with synth sounds - GarageBand Tutorial
From the course: GarageBand for Mac Essential Training
Working with synth sounds
- [Instructor] Even though I haven't gone specifically into the details of working with every type of software instrument, in this movie I did want to cover working with the synth instruments in GarageBand, because their controls are a little bit different than what we've seen so far. I'm going to go into project templates and choose keyboard collection and create a new project. And we've seen this before. This generates a new project with several piano, organ, and synthesizer tracks already created for us. Currently, I have the classic electric piano selected. So that's what that sounds like. Now, the smart control panel is also opened by default and with each instrument we select, we see different smart controls. So for instruments like the piano or electric piano, we have one knob for tone control, compression and effects. For the organ, we have switches and sliders like you'd see on a real organ. But then for some…
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