Friday, February 14, 2025

Photo-quality Inkjet Printing in the Wriston Digital Lab

 The Wriston digital lab is in the lower level of the Wriston art center, on the West side directly across from the photo area. Only the furthest in computer is connected to the printer. This video is chopped out of a longer covid-era video, so it's not the slickest production. There is also a printed version of these instructions in the lab.




Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Garagebandland

Three ways to use garageband;

Using MIDI  technology (there are MIDI keyboards at every station in the 013 lab)...

Using pre-recorded loops...

Or multi-track recording...


Software instruments, loops, and multitrack recording...used individually or together. The possibilities are endless, especially when you consider that a project may start with a recording conveniently made with your phone. These how-to videos are all by... 

https://thegaragebandguide.com 

which has exhaustive and always up to date info on using garageband.

Before you export your garageband track try some basic mastering. I discovered the genre-based presets are still there and that may be all you need. Click on master and output on the mastering window at the bottom of the interface. If you double click on compressor, exciter, and limiter and if you go past 'manual' you will see presets. From there you can really beef-up your track. Here's a really well-done article on mastering...