'GarageBand Hacks' offers 70 interesting and unusual ways to create and manipulate sounds, including the inventive use of plug-ins and effects with GarageBand's three main features: MIDI controlled "software instruments", simple looping, and recording. Readers will also find hacks for using freeware and shareware programs, such as Audacity and Wiretap, in conjunction with GarageBand to create and edit loops and tracks. And they'll learn ways to use GarageBand 2 with iTunes and other iLife programs, such as making music beds for iMovie files. There's a lot more to this popular application than meets the eye, and "GarageBand 2 Hacks" shows musicians and musical novices how to take advantage of it.