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Yesterday’s GarageBand Podcast on Mac Primer Tutorial got us into Mac OS X’s GarageBand application, and now … what do you know? … we’re stuck there! It’s addictive! And my favourite parts, so far? New (Project) -> Keyboard Collection -> Track -> “Classic Organ” and “Solo Star” and “Falling Star” And so we put together a video of playing around with this wonderful functionality for you to have a geek at below. Using steps like … on MacBook Pro opened GarageBand application in Applications folder click New Project icon or choose menu File -> New click Keyboard Collection icon to choose this and click Choose button click in “Track” section “Classic Organ” and “Solo Star” and “Falling Star” or other keyboard options play around on the keyboard presented, and repeat these last two steps however many times Did you know? Or did you guess … that the making of the YouTube clip above involved sitting two MacBook Pros on a table, facing each other, and using one of these to open the PhotoBooth desktop application on in Video mode with Edit -> Flip New Items set on, and with the other MacBook Pro performing the GarageBand steps as above? Open YouTube to our channel and Upload the resultant *.mov PhotoBooth video. Previous relevant GarageBand Podcast on Mac Primer Tutorial is shown below. Despite the demise of the Podcast Publisher desktop application from the more recent versions of Mac OS X, and we talked about at Podcast Publisher on Mac Primer Tutorial, that doesn’t mean that it is, or ever was, the end of Podcast creation opportunities on a MacBook Pro using Mac OS X. The whole time we’ve had the GarageBand desktop application’s … New (Project) -> Podcast … functionality to turn to, as we got prompted to do by this very useful link, thanks. Today, we used GarageBand, firstly (and now I know how Meryl Streep (or Florence Foster Jenkins) didn’t feel) without a microphone … … and then with a microphone … … the latter in particular, courtesy of a GarageBand Project Save As… “Compact Project”, creating an audio track of a small enough size to email to somebody (is this a Voice Memo) for quite a few minutes of recording time (where today’s is almost 3 minutes of “Unreachable” entertainment … cough, cough). So how did we make this “gem” (Danburite, anyone?) of an audio production (Podcast)