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Audacity
About Audacity
Audacity is a free, cross-platform audio editing program available online, as well as available on all of the computers in the Weigle Information Commons. Audacity facilitates audio imports, recording, editing, working with multiple tracks, and exporting.
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- LinkedIn Learning: Learning AudacityIn this course, instructor Garrick Chow demonstrates how to download and install Audacity on both Mac and Windows, record live audio, and import and play existing audio files. See how to perform basic editing tasks such as copying and pasting audio, splitting clips, and adding effects. Garrick also shows more advanced tasks including adding compression and automating volume levels.
- Podcasting with Audacity™: Creating a Podcast with Free Audio Software - Mac, Windows, and LinuxThis Short Cut is designed to get you podcasting as quickly as possible. The first few chapters show you how to install Audacity, plug in your microphone, record your first podcast, and get it online as quickly as possible. The following chapters cover podcasting-specific topics, such as adding background music or conducting interviews. Finally, the remaining chapters focus on how Audacity works, with lots of tips and tricks to make complicated editing even easier
GarageBand
About GarageBand
GarageBand is one of the most accessible, affordable, and easy-to-learn recording software options around. It comes free on every new Mac, and its simple interface means you spend less time learning the software and more time making music.
- LinkedIn Learning: GarageBand for Mac Essential TrainingInstructor Garrick Chow shows how to create your first project using the prerecorded loops, virtual drummer, and software instruments built into GarageBand. These features allow you to create an entire song without knowing how to play a single instrument. But if you want to record a live performance, GarageBand has you covered. Garrick also shows how to record real instruments in GarageBand, and how to use the Amp Designer to craft your own unique guitar sounds. Then learn how to arrange, edit, and mix your projects using the Arrangement track and the built-in effects. Last but not least, Garrick shows how to export your song from GarageBand and share it with the world.
Logic Pro X
About Logic Pro X
Logic Pro X is Apple’s flagship Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), used by recording engineers and producers alike, from the hobbyist to the industry leading professional. Logic Pro X allows users to record and manipulate audio, as well as program MIDI with a wide range of built in instruments, sounds, loops and effects. There are some really great built in VSTs that come with Logic, such as their Drummer program.
- LinkedIn Learning: Logic Pro X Essential TrainingThese days, the studio is as much a part of music making as the musician. Logic Pro X combines the best of both worlds: features to bring fresh musical ideas to life, and tools to derive the most from a performance. In this course, Scott Hirsch takes you over the Logic learning curve, showing how to compose, record, edit, and mix great sounding tracks. First, get comfortable with the setup and workflow, and then learn how to record audio and MIDI; work with virtual instruments; use samples and Apple Loops, and conform their time and pitch to better fit a song; and leverage key editing and arranging techniques. Moving deeper into the program, Scott covers how to work with music notation and score to video. He wraps up with information on mixing, working in surround, and finishing a project.
- Logic Pro X For Dummies, 2nd EditionLogic Pro X offers Mac users the tools and power they need to create recordings ready to share with the world. This book provides the know-how for navigating the interface, tweaking the settings, picking the sounds, and all the other tech tasks that get in the way of capturing the perfect take.
Written by a Logic Pro X trainer who’s used the software to further his own music career, Logic Pro X For Dummies cuts back on the time needed to learn the software and allows for more time making amazing recordings.
Reason
About Reason
Reason is one of the most popular digital audio workstations (DAW) in use today, due to its numerous virtual instruments and creative devices, powerful editing and mixing capabilities, and its ability to use third-party plug-ins. Not only that, many of the devices in the Reason rack exactly emulate their analog counterparts, so you can apply many of the techniques and functionality you learn in reason to tools you’d find in any recording studio.
- LinkedIn Learning: Reason 12 Essential TrainingIn this course, music producer and sound designer Nate Mars covers everything from the basics of configuring reason to a tour of advanced instruments and sound design. He shows you how to create Reason 12 projects as standalone projects, or as a plug-ins to use with other DAWs. He teaches you how to create and edit MIDI and audio clips, mix and master your own productions, and takes an in-depth look at Reason’s most popular and powerful tool, the Combinator.