Music Fun with Apple iLife GarageBand
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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Even though I’m not a musician by any stretch of the imagination, I can now create cool music very easily with this program. Hmm… maybe time to create my own “giveaway theme song”?
I hadn’t really checked out the Garage Band part of iLife ‘08 until I opened it the other night to record a voice over for a project I’m working on. I noticed there is a new button called “Magic Garage Band”. Magic? I had to check it out.
Clicking on that button takes you to a “stage”, where you can choose your favorite genre of music, from rock to blues. Once you do that, the curtains open, and you can select each individual instrument and edit the type, style, sound, etc. The neatest thing is that you can change these during the preview, and instantly hear your changes. There’s the guitars, drums, and even keyboards!
Once you think you’re satisfied with your music, click the “Creating project” button. From there, you can edit your project in numerous ways.
This is just too awesome, and I could get lost in it for hours at a time!
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3 Comments
totoum
October 2nd, 2007
at 7:48pm
lol,when steve jobs showed of this feature back in august i was thinking “i’m a non musician and i get along just fine,no need to make it THAT easy”,but apparantly it pulled you in.
Messing aroung with garaband loops can be quite addictive,the funniest part is that you start recognising them all over the place,i’ve heard them in movies,tv shows and commercials,anime OSTs and even (according to wikipedia) in the hit song “umbrella” by rihanna (loop name is vintage funk kit 3,and i’ve checked,it seems to be correct).
Steve jobs showing off the first garageband back in 2004 remains to me a classic keynote moment.
Joseph K. Williams
October 4th, 2007
at 1:47am
This is kinda stupid, but you can create a band at:
http://www.createbands.com/
Watching this video reminded me of doing that, because it is a lame version of what you are doing.
Joseph K. Williams
October 4th, 2007
at 1:49am
Wait a minute, no it isn’t. I should’ve watched the whole video before I posted that comment. =P