I'll be getting my new mac tomorrow it's an mbp with a 2.53gb processor and 8 gb of ram and a 500gb hd. I'm looking forward to finally getting my hands on it since it comes with garageband. .
On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Keith Reedy wrote: Hi folks, It is so good to hear some one els say what we have known for quite a while. GarageBand is powerful and GB5 is more powerful than GB4. BTW, these amps are accessible. Some one could write a guide on this stuff. Keith Reedy Click the link below to download MP3's of Keith Reedy's music as a gift from Bibles For The Blind. http://biblesfortheblind.org/download_music.shtml God gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. J Hudson Taylor. On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:54 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > Here's an interesting offering from the press. > > To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> > Subject: Musicians ditch studios for tech such as GiO for Macs > > By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY > SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Forty years ago at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix > stirred the crowd with a rocking version of the American national > anthem, full of stinging feedback provided by the walls of Marshall > tube amplifiers behind him. > Today, Bob Robles can get similar sounds just by plugging his guitar > into an Apple laptop. > > "The sound quality is amazing," says Robles, a Los Angeles studio > musician. "I'm just blown away by it." > > Apple has cranked up its offerings for musicians of all kinds — > especially guitarists. After a January revamp of its popular > GarageBand program, the music-editing software bundled into its > iLife suite, guitarists can plug their instruments directly into a > Mac via a guitar-to-USB cable and rock out with five simulated amp > sounds. > > In July, Apple released advanced software ($499 Logic Studio and > $199 Logic Express) that includes even more amp and guitar > combinations — 25 in all. > > And this week, veteran audio gear manufacturer Apogee lets > guitarists control their sound hands-free with the launch of the > $395 GiO for Mac computers. It lets you tap controls with your feet, > like those guitar pedals favored by guitarists going back to Hendrix > and his Wah-Wah pedal. > > Marrying musical instruments with computers isn't new. For years, > musicians have been able to connect with a variety of interfaces, > mixers and other tools for making music. But once connected, > musicians had to fiddle with a computer mouse and space bar to > control the recording process. > > "Now you're free to play," says Sean McArthur, director of marketing > for Apogee. > > Peter Thorn, a Los Angeles guitarist who is currently in Eagle Don > Henley's touring group, has used the GiO and says the big advantage > is being able to keep his hands on the guitar and not the mouse. > > "It's just really cool to be able to do it all with your feet, on > the floor," he says. > > Apple's GarageBand is far and away the most popular program for > creating and recording music on the computer, since it's free and > shipped with every new Mac. It was introduced in 2004. (If you have > an older Mac and don't have GarageBand '09, you'll need to fork over > $79 for the current iLife suite.) > > Music software like GarageBand and higher-end programs like Logic, > Avid's Pro Tools and Steinberg Media's Cubase have totally revamped > how music is made. Bands no longer need to hole up in studios for > days. They can record directly to laptops and hand off recorded > files to their producers. > > Music software sales are booming, according to the National > Association of Music Merchants, which represents music shops. > Revenue grew to almost $500 million in 2008, from $140 million in > 1999. > > (Note to guitar players: Besides the axe and software, you'll also > need a USB-to-guitar interface cable, and they're not cheap, > averaging around $100.) > > Veteran producer Tony Berg (Bob Dylan, Squeeze, Aimee Mann) says 80% > of the acts he works with now record music at home, with software > such as Logic and ProTools. > > As a producer, he doesn't mind if the track didn't come from his > session. He just takes the tracks and adds them to his final mix > later. > > "It's their first vision," Berg says, "And it's that spontaneous act > of recording that you could never duplicate. If it sounds good, and > it grooves, and it complements the song, then nothing else matters." > > Back in the 1960s, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones famously > heard the opening riff to (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction in his head > while sleeping, quickly awoke and sang it into a tape recorder. He > then went back to sleep and worked on the song when he woke up. > > Now, in country music mecca Nashville, many songwriters begin by > recording demos with the internal mikes on MacBooks, says Nashville- > based music producer Nathan Chapman, who has produced songs for best- > selling artist Taylor Swift. "They record the first version of the > song that way, and then re-record it later." > > Guitarists who do session work or collaborate with others, like > Robles, don't even have to bother re-recording a track later. Robles > says plugging his Fender Stratocaster straight into the Mac gives > him what he needs and is a huge time and money saver. > > "If I get an idea, I don't have to book a studio, hire an engineer > and pay an hourly fee to record it," says the guitarist, who has > performed with Jackson Browne, Natalie Cole and Lyle Lovett. "Now I > just record it directly into GarageBand or Logic, save the file and > send it off." > > >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vimac-audio" 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/vimac-audio?hl=en This group is also archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/vimac-audio%40googlegroups.com/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
