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 then click on the settings up/down arrows you can see 06 mastering. From there you can choose a final mix preset that will really beef-up your track. This article is quite helpful;
After seeing Squrl perform to Man Ray films at the Walker, I had the honor to talk to Jim Jarmusch about going to so many emotional places in a single hour-long composition, yet being completely consistent and engaging throughout. He told me the secret was keeping the drone going, a strategy that is the basis of Indian Classical music but seldom used in the West.
Most of us were introduced to this structure via Lou Reed's song Heroin, originally recorded in 1966 with John Cale's single note viola part.
Cale was introduced to the drone by American avant-garde composer La Monte Young.
Mr.
Frank, best known for his groundbreaking book, “The Americans,” had a
visually raw and personally expressive style that made him one of the
most influential photographers of the 20th century.
Can't deny that the best way to learn this stuff is via YouTube! The interface on the newest 2020 version has changed drastically from the last version I have used. Here's a couple quickie tutorials to get beginners started;
This one comes from a legit school and just hit the streets.
This one's a little simpler and more folksy. I'm all for this idea of just exporting to a YouTube (1080 or bigger) preset rather than making an MP4.
There are the four hour versions that show you everything (this used to cost $$$) but as we all know you're much better off looking for the short tutorial that covers the specific thing you want to do.
First, and most important it was necessary for computers to have a language beyond mathematics. The vision of Grace Hopper made it possible to communicate with computers using English. At Remington Rand her idea was not accepted for 3 years. In the meantime, she published her first paper on the subject, compilers, in 1952. "I decided data processors ought to be able to write their programs in
English, and the computers would translate them into machine code. That
was the beginning of COBOL, a computer language for data processors."
Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013),
whose vision of collaboration using computer technology to help solve
the urgent and complex problems of all of humanity, died on July 2,
2013. His comrades believed that his ideas were never fully realized due
to his ideals and generosity of spirit. For example, he resisted
patenting the "mouse" he'd invented and it eventually fell into the
public domain. The robotic rigidity of institutions is also to blame --
most powerful technology companies in American relegated him to R&D.
Ted Nelson, professor and inventor of the first hypertext project, delivered Engelbart's eulogy
on December 9, 2013. In his tearful delivery, he said the "...real
ashes to be mourned are the ashes of Doug’s great dreams and vision,
that we dance around in the costume party of fonts that swept aside his
ideas of structure and collaboration...Perhaps his notion of
accelerating collaboration and cooperation was a pipe dream in this
dirty world of organizational politics, jockeying and backstabbing and
euphemizing evil." Engelbart articulated his ideas for collaboration
publicly in what is known as The Mother of all Demos
delivered on December 9, 1968, over a half a century ago. Some of what
he described is still in the process of being realized in commercial
forms such as Skype, Google Docs, and more.
Ted Nelson inserts a bit of attitude into this history. He detests the evils of limitations and compromise. He questions corporate control. His technical ideas may have not have had as widespread impact as others here, but his spirit, and that of his ilk, is what helped made computing a tool available to most rather than a select few.
Steve Wozniak believed that computers could be beautiful machines. Not just utilitarian devices with some industrial design on the outside, but beautiful from the inside out. Art objects. The idea was radical, and has changed our lives. We are now willfully living with computing technology all of the time.
