19- GarageBand

Garageband

Garageband is a program that lets you mix any kind of music that the programs has in their system which is more than a thousand sounds packages to select from and make just a few sounds together into a music track. You can change anything from the tempo, to the instrument, to the tone of the music and just about every aspect of sound you can think of. There’s a multitude of choice when picking the specific sound since there’s also the same sounds but in different order. They add an ascending number title to it if it has this such as 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

It lets you sync up the music to the specific video you want to combine the music with it so you can test through a trial and error process as you attempt to find the right combinations of music. It’s also very helpful in the sense that you can also change the transition of music. If you want the soundtrack to transition into one another or overlap you can do so to either the sets of sounds you’ve created or specifically one sound in a sound set you’ve composed.

What you can also change is the volume of each sound. Similar to transitions, you can either change the volume of a whole set of packs or individual sounds for more impact and finesse. The one drawback of garageband is if you know little about music and you don’t have much of an idea of how you the music to go, you may find yourself on the program for a bit longer than you expected. Even if you somehow manage to compose something you can live with it doesn’t make it good enough.

One positive the program has is its clarity and easy-use. All the basic things you need to make it work are pretty straightforward the only thing I’d say you’d have trouble with is doing advanced techniques which will probably require a little more experience from someone else, or at least a thorough read on some guides.

I tried to compose a soundtrack for a title sequence of a high school drama but I found myself wanting to scrap what I composed after an hour and a half since it’s hard to distant yourself from the overall work when you’re doing it. So it’s extremely hard to judge if it’s any good as your doing. A tip would be to have someone look and listen over it once you’ve completed or half way so they can get a good sense of it and give you feedback to improve on.