Making a Podcast With GarageBand for iPad. With GarageBand installed, an iPad is a powerful and portable tool for musicians. However, just like its desktop version, GarageBand for iPad can also be employed by non-musicians too, as I’ll highlight with a step by step guide to making a podcast on your iPad, complete with accompanying music. This How-To will be aimed towards those who have a basic understanding of GarageBand, or at least the principles behind music software in general, but I will endeavour to keep each step as beginner friendly as possible. If you have any questions or problems, please let us know in the comments and I’ll attempt to help you through it.
Getting Started It’s really quite simple to record a voice track by itself, but a good podcast needs some accompanying music and creating this music will take up most of the following tutorial. Ensuring that the music is suitable isn’t just a case of making sure it’s good, either. Percussion GarageBand's beat interface is flexible and intuitive. Apple Loops: Rhythm. Book Palette Adds 10 New Templates To iBooks Author. A few weeks ago, Apple revealed their plans for reinventing textbooks, which included a major update to iBooks for iOS, and a Mac app, iBooks Author.
While our hands-on look at iBooks Author showed how easy it is to create content for iBooks, some may find its six templates to be a little lacking. Hot on the heels of iBooks Author’s release, publisher Jumsoft released Book Palette ($2.99), which adds 10 new templates to iBooks Author, and that number is expected to grow with future updates. Here is a description of Book Palette from Jumsoft: With the new, revolutionary iBooks Author app, anyone can create and publish great Multi-Touch books for iPad, including you.
Jumsoft swiftly offers you an enhanced experience in book creation with 10 beautiful templates for iBooks Author.Each template included in the Book Palette app features an assortment of stylish and modern page layouts. You can download Book Palette for $2.99 in the Mac App Store. Apple Changes "iBooks Author" EULA, Frees Your Competing Platform Rights. Remember all that controversy about Apple’s iBooks Author EULA? Well, self-publishers, it’s time to exhale: Apple’s changed the language to said agreement, removing all previously-included restrictions to peddling your work on competing platforms.
The EULA section was originally worded thus: B. Distribution of your Work. Now, however, the limitations have been clarified and simplified (emphasis added): B. It’s worth reminding readers that a good many folks online actually interpreted Apple’s original wording exactly as it’s reflected in this update. [t]he new agreement explained that Apple never planned to confine the distribution of non-.iBooks content, and the EULA clarified users are allowed to distribute .iBooks formatted documents elsewhere—they just cannot charge elsewhere. So there you go. Nerd rage wins again! [Image: apple.com.
A superb 40 minute GarageBand tutorial video.