Garageband Until I Die!

[noiseflaw]

Very Interesting. (Photo of George Pringle)

...just found the online link for the full article HERE:



Ok I'm writing this thread as I read through the article in The Guardian (Britain's Largest selling weekly Broadsheet).


Apple's free software is credited with getting many bands started, but is the inclusion of the program on macs pure generosity or clever marketing?

Points of note in the article are:

One online artist championing the benefits of GarageBand is George Pringle. Already building a significant online buzz, Pringle's forthcoming single, 'Carte Postale' was recorded solely on her Mac. Taking her love affair to more excessive levels, she has taken to scrawling "GarageBand until I die" on her body.

She says "For free software GarageBand is also suprisingly flexible, You can put it through an amp emulator, you can change the preset sounds, you can turn your voice into an instrument, you can plug old beatboxes into it, you can make your own loops. It is like an instrument itself if youi know how to use it and play it right, you can make virtually any kind of sound".

A host of established artists - such as Limp Bizkit, Panic! At tThe Disco and Scout Niblett - have used GarageBand to just plug in and sing straight into a Mac's built in microphone to record instant demos. Meanwhile Nine Inch Nails and Erasure have both issued singles as garageBand files, letting fans remix and mash up original master trcks. This summer Rihanna's chart topping Umbrella used one of it's drum loops (specifically, vintage Funk Kit 03) to great effect.


1."When I started out in the early 80's you had to become a runner in a studio and then work up from there - that was your only chance. Now if you buy a Mac, then out of the box you've got the opportunity to have a taste of Music production...(Dave Pine head of Point Blank).

2. Steve Jobs was adamant that GarageBand was no niche market proposition. In fact, according to Apple GarageBand encapsulates the company's long-term goals: to democratise the use of technology and to take the creative tasks that were difficult or expensive and make them accessible and easy to use for everyone.

[chucks]

2. Steve Jobs was adamant that GarageBand was no niche market proposition. In fact, according to Apple GarageBand encapsulates the company's long-term goals: to democratise the use of technology and to take the creative tasks that were difficult or expensive and make them accessible and easy to use for everyone.

Should read monopolize the use of technology.

[spjessop]

My next (planned) computer purchase is going to be a Mac Mini. Garagebands drum loops have seduced me. It seems like a great tool to help with songwriting. I play drums, but draggint these loops into GB is a much faster way of working out bass parts and then I can put my real drums in later.

I can see Logic being my next step.

[jeronimo]

I don't see a problem...

[crufty]

Garage band is an awesome tool. thumbsup thumbsup thumbsup

The scoring is nice, the piano roll functional, the instruments easy to use, the price included in the price of your mac--and it sounds pretty good too!

[chrisj]

*points to his plugin store, all of which works on GarageBand, and the big pile of FREE plugins at the bottom of every page*

Oh, by all means Garageband FTW!

[noiseflaw]

Originally Posted by Bryan Talbot

Nah - not as long as Microsoft's around.

Apple's laptop sales have increased sharply over the last couple of years, perhaps someone can correct me but I think I read somewhere that they had 20-30% market share.

Still a very long way to go to catch up with pc sales and windows yet, so nobody need worry too much.

[sam sanford]

ive used it to maybe remember some ideas. or if im at my house and i need it to be my metronome.

but otherwise its just a toy.