2006 08 20

I’ve fallen in love with Garageband

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I’ve managed to make my brother’s Roland PC-300 controller keyboard work with my MacBook and I’ve just started using Garageband.

Let me tell you that it is a fantastic piece of software. It’s easy to use and, for me, as feature-packed as Logic Audio (which I was using previously on my PC).

Garageband comes with a fantastic set of Apple Loops which make music creation really painless.

Garageband offers a lot of virtual instruments and is also compatible with third-party Audio Units like the rather excellent Crystal that you can see in the picture above.

I’ll post some tracks hopefully by the end of the week.

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written by avinash

5 Responses to “I’ve fallen in love with Garageband”

  1. Dilraj says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 21:49

    Hmm, I’ve checked out Garageband and it’s a really nice piece of software. As I’m using using Windows, I can’t use it. But I’m trying hard to use Fruity Loops.

    I shoud admit that GarageBand has a much nicer interface, that’s initing people who love music use it. (Huh, that’s expected since it’s a Mac!)

  2. avinash says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 23:16

    Hi Dilraj,

    What is really impressive in Garageband is how easy it is to use. The user interface is really a marvel in design. And it is as powerful as its bigger brother Logic Audio for amateur musicians like myself.

    I’ve only just scratched the surface. I haven’t yet launched (it’s true) iMovie HD, iDVD and iWeb… I have so many things to discover.

    It’s heaven :-)

  3. David says:
    November 6th, 2006 at 22:47

    Another excellent free audiounit softsynth you might want to check is Alphakanal’s Automat 0.4.2 (Universal).

    It’s a polyphonic 3 oscillator subtractive synth with some fat sounds! Great for Prophet-5 unison style patches. And it’s very low on resources…

    Download: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25832

    Developer’s site (screenshots only): http://www.alphakanal.de/

  4. David says:
    November 6th, 2006 at 22:53

    For mastering your tracks, try Izotope’s Ozone:

    http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/

    It’s free for 10 days only. The quality is superb!!

    Also get the guides on mastering and dithering at:

    http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/guides.html

    Both are very well written. It’s a good introduction to mastering audio, with a very hands-on approach. I learned a lot from them.

  5. avinash says:
    November 7th, 2006 at 00:06

    Thanks for the links.

    I’ve also downloded T-Racks 24 which works for 10 days also.

    I’ll need to be really quick.

    By the way, I believe I already have the best book in mastering.

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