I've just started using this. before i had an analog 8 track machine.

if a painter is done when his painting is finished on canvas, i like to consider garage band the paper on which my ideas are sketched on paper.

does anyone have any useful tips/hints/secrets to make this program more useful than that?

i like what it does so far and how it functions, just looking for experience's insight.

thanks.


edit: i'll be glad to post a few of my recordings if i can get all this shit straightend out. hopefully i can bring it from atlanta to ruckus in late march or early april

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 2:20 AM. Reason : i'm planning on going to sxsw (if anybody knows anybody to hook a brah up)]

1/22/2009 2:18:33 AM

If you're talking about this GarageBand: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#garageband

There's some video tutorials there, i'd check out the last 3 of the middle column if I were you.

1/22/2009 2:25:44 AM

i find it fun for:

recording random shit with my on-board mic and then playing with that (i.e., i have a mix i made during a painfully long layover at the airport)

and

making random background loops for youtube videos

but other than that i haven't really found a use for garage band

1/22/2009 2:33:12 AM

So GarageBand seems pretty limited, but I need to do some shit and my life would be easier if I could use GarageBand to do it. Is there any way to just compose some MIDI shit to run through a synth with it just using the program (i.e. without a MIDI keyboard)? I've used Cubase in the past and I just want to be able to do some quick and dirty bleep bloops like I could with that.

12/12/2011 7:33:23 PM

yes, but you can only output it as a wav/mp3, not raw midi file.

12/12/2011 7:45:37 PM