Krister, you haven't missed anything. Its hard for me to say things like this without sounding as if I'm speaking badly of the people that are trying to make these tutorials, which I'm not. Still, I don't think that any of the people on the lists that are on about how great Garage Band is have ever worked professionally in a modern digital recording environment, so have profoundly modest desires and/or don't have any idea what they're missing. My DAW at the moment is Sonar, and Garage Band's accessibility doesn't even provide the most basic of Sonar's features. I can't select a piece of audio or MIDI to cut/copy/paste/delete, edit recorded MIDI events, nudge events/clips to change their start times, change the durations or other properties of clips, or perform basic processing tasks like offline quantize/transpose/interpolate/fit-to-time/etc. Never mind anything advanced like composite clip editing, manual time and pitch editing of audio, mix automation, etc. For sighted users, Garage Band is a simple DAW, and you must purchase Logic in order to get any of the real features. To me, though, Garage Band isn't even a good digital recorder.
I'm sure it could be better. The accessibility is certainly better than it used to be. But, its like Logic. If 90% of the program is accessible, but the 10% that isn't is the part that you can't do without when recording, then the program is mostly pointless. You can use Garage Band as a high quality synthesizer for your keyboard controller to play instruments. I suppose that you could use it to do jingles or short spots like Keith does, but you can do that with any DAW. I have production libraries from the Hollywood Edge, Sound Ideas, and many others, templates for these sorts of projects in Sonar, and promise that I can throw productions like that together in a fraction of the time that someone would in GB. Plus, if I want to change a part of it, I can actually edit what I have, instead of having to start over from scratch. I really hope that GB gets better. I'd like to do more of my audio work on the Mac. For blind people involved in audio work, the Mac is just a toy right now. That will change when the new Pro Tools comes out. Hopefully, Apple will improve accessibility to their tools before too long, also. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: an applescript for the garage band move loop to track grid problematic Hi there, I still don't get it. Even if you can put a loop on the grid, you can't use it effectively because you can only put it in one place. If you want to have the loop span multiple bars in the grid, you can't because once in the track grid, it can't be seen by VO so it can't be manipulated. It's great that you can move loops to the grid using an applescript, but i can see no point in it since it can't be edited anyway unless i've missed anything obvious. I have looked in the manual and/or help file on editing loops, but i don't get how things are supposed to work, so maybe i don't understand something here. /Krister 26 feb 2010 kl. 11.58 skrev Yuma Antoine Decaux: > I have no problem with pessimism, believe me :) > > I was talking about putting a loop from the loop library into the track grid. > > Or maybe i've been following the wrong tutorial on the you can make it .com > about putting loops/instruments/etc on the track grid. > > This is a way to do in 1 manipulation what should be done in 8 in > normal circumstances > > Cheers > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
