I was messing around with the new MacBook last night and decided to take a shot at playing with GarageBand, Apple’s music mixing & recording program that ships with iLife ‘06. At first glance GarageBand appears to be a fairly basic mixing program, allowing you to take samples and loops from its (relatively small) built-in library and compose some ho-hum tunes with them.
However, what I soon found out, is that GarageBand will also allow you to connect a MIDI compatible keyboard so that you can either record your own music using the keyboard’s instrument bank, or use the keyboard to control any of the built-in MIDI instruments in GarageBand.
Now, admittedly I’m no musical genius, but I did put together a short (1:42) track inspired by some of the video games of my youth. Those of you who know me well probably already know what this is going to sound like. If you think you know what game this is from, add a comment and let me know!
Download: Audio Sample #1 (M4A, 0.78 MB)
I know that there are also some podcasters out there producing their shows using GarageBand. The new version has some features which are supposed to make that easier. I haven’t tried to use them yet, but maybe that’s a project for the near future.
GarageBand 3 reviews on: CNET, ZDNet, JeffMacArthur.com
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