Just wondering how well that new Garage Band with 8 track recording
works. I saw the Steve Jobs presentation with John Mayer, and it's
transcriptions looked great with individual inputs.
Anybody knows what GB will spit out if you feed it prerecorded multi
track music?
GW

In article <Q3B3e.3843$kk2.2201@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:

> Just wondering how well that new Garage Band with 8 track recording
> works. I saw the Steve Jobs presentation with John Mayer, and it's
> transcriptions looked great with individual inputs.
> Anybody knows what GB will spit out if you feed it prerecorded multi
> track music?
> GW

There are a couple of dirty secrets about the new Garage Band:

1) To do 8 track recording, you need to add relatively expensive
hardware... even if you plug in, say, a cheap iMic USB audio device, you
can't simultaneously record using the Mac's internal sound circuitry and
the iMic.

2) While it can notate music, you can't print it out, making it much
less useful.

It's great to have these high-end features in this low-end package, but
they're really not as useful as they could be.

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Alan Zisman wrote:

> In article <Q3B3e.3843$kk2.2201@twister.socal.rr.com>,
> Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Just wondering how well that new Garage Band with 8 track recording
>>works. I saw the Steve Jobs presentation with John Mayer, and it's
>>transcriptions looked great with individual inputs.
>>Anybody knows what GB will spit out if you feed it prerecorded multi
>>track music?
>>GW
>
>
> There are a couple of dirty secrets about the new Garage Band:
>
> 1) To do 8 track recording, you need to add relatively expensive
> hardware... even if you plug in, say, a cheap iMic USB audio device, you
> can't simultaneously record using the Mac's internal sound circuitry and
> the iMic.
>
> 2) While it can notate music, you can't print it out, making it much
> less useful.
>
> It's great to have these high-end features in this low-end package, but
> they're really not as useful as they could be.
>
Well that is very disheartening. I'm glad I didn't rush out to buy it.
About the printing.....you could just do a screen capture and crop it.
OSX Applications/Utilities/Grab:Capture:Window
GW

As for the recording aspect. You can purchase something called FastTrack USB
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_u...kUSB-main.html

you can get it for around $99.00 at the Apple Store.

it allows you to record guitar, vocals (hi or lo impedence) and is
completely USB powered.
It's a good choice for working with Garageband.

I wouldn't say it's cheap, but it's not hundreds of dollars.
to do 8 people simultaneously on separate tracks at the same time would
obviously require some extra gear, there isn't anywhere to plug in 8 mics
and that kind of gear would be expensive.

but if you just want to record 8 tracks of you playing different parts, the
above is a decent solution and not that expensive.

hope that helps,
sincerely,
J

"Alan Zisman" <alan@nospam.zisman.ca> wrote in message
news:alan-6F4F75.13011202042005@news.vc.shawcable.net...
> In article <Q3B3e.3843$kk2.2201@twister.socal.rr.com>,
> Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Just wondering how well that new Garage Band with 8 track recording
> > works. I saw the Steve Jobs presentation with John Mayer, and it's
> > transcriptions looked great with individual inputs.
> > Anybody knows what GB will spit out if you feed it prerecorded multi
> > track music?
> > GW
>
> There are a couple of dirty secrets about the new Garage Band:
>
> 1) To do 8 track recording, you need to add relatively expensive
> hardware... even if you plug in, say, a cheap iMic USB audio device, you
> can't simultaneously record using the Mac's internal sound circuitry and
> the iMic.
>
> 2) While it can notate music, you can't print it out, making it much
> less useful.
>
> It's great to have these high-end features in this low-end package, but
> they're really not as useful as they could be.
>
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Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor releases song as GarageBand File

On nin.com, Trent Reznor is offering a complete mix of a song from the
forthcoming Nine Inch Nails album as a Garageband 2.0 file. The CD/vinyl is
due out on May 3. Snip from the README:

"For quite some time I've been interested in the idea of allowing you
the ability to tinker around with my tracks - to create remixes, experiment,
embellish or destroy what's there. I tried a few years ago to do this in
shockwave with very limited results. After spending some quality time
sitting in hotel rooms on a press tour, it dawned on me that the technology
now exists and is already in the hands of some of you. I got to work
experimenting and came up with something I think you'll enjoy. What I'm
giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for "the
hand that feeds" in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over
from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and
converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable
and the tempo flexible."

Stu
(who hopes you are all doing well)

NP: Burning Airlines Give You So Much More by Brian Eno