Fermata Friday: 8 Great Finale Tips

For today's Fermata Friday post, here is a post from Finale's blog on tips to learn and use the program more efficiently. 8 great tips for Finale: 1. QuickStart Videos: Find them in Finale’s Help menu or Launch Window. Don’t know how to get started? Don’t read manuals? These videos were created for you! 2. The Selection tool lets you do nearly anything. To select it with a two-button mouse, right-click. Have a one-button mouse? Then ctrl-click. With the Selection tool chosen, you can click on just about any item in Finale and...

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Waveform Wednesday: Beef Up Your Kick Drums

Do you find your kick drum to be weak in the mix, or not as powerful/punchy/full/heavy/[insert other descriptive word here] as you would like? Use your kick drum to trigger a low sub synth sound to fatten up the bottom (or eat a lot of twinkies). You can do this in any number of DAWs, but I’ll walk through the setup in Logic. Route your kick drum track out through a bus. I’m using a pattern sequenced in Ultrabeat, so I created a multi-output...

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Mac Daddy Monday: The iLife Suite Aps

Welcome to iLife ‘11. iLife is a suite of applications that includes iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb and iDVD. The Learning Center offers training and tutoring sessions on these applications and more, starting with our iLife Suite Overview session this Friday, May 20th at 11am. Sign up here! Learn to use them all, and you have a portable studio with your new Berklee laptop. Let’s go through the aps: iPhoto is an editor, organizer and sync-er...

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