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Recording: Garage Band on an Apple MacBook (Simple and useful)
Re: My gear
By: datavase to All on Mon Aug 24 2009 12:04:42
Recording: Garage Band on an Apple MacBook (Simple and useful)
I've used Garage Band before and also found it to be simple and useful. I don't have a Mac now, but I'd almost consider buying a Mac Mini (again)
just for Garage Band. I think it would be nice to have Garage Band available for Windows. :) Or perhaps even Linux.
Eric
With the Behringer V-Ampn 3 comes a software called energyXT2.5 Compact.
I haven't tried yet, but it looks simple and useful as Garage Band. Advan is that it runs on Windows XP, Vista (32-bit), OS 10.x and Linux.
Another thing I've noticed about Windows-based music recording software, that bugs me, is related to MIDI. If you want to render MIDI to an audio file, Windows software generally seems to only be able to do that with software MIDI synthesizers. I don't mind that, but the problem seems to be that software MIDI synthesizers in Windows have a noticeable delay between when you press the key on your keyboard and when you hear the sound. I think that makes it basically impossible to record a song properly. I did not notice that problem with Garage Band on the Mac platform - I'm not sure if it's due to the software or the hardware on the Mac, but I'd like to see a decrease in software MIDI latency in Windows.
Nightfox
AFAIK this delay is due something called latency, and is usually provoked the hardware. Expensive sound cards have less latency. Usually, trying to
The Behringer V-Amp 3 that I was mentioning claims to have "No-latency gu recording on your PCùedit". Apparently gets it using the UCA222 USB Audio interface (http://www.behringer.com.au/EN/Products/UCA222.aspx).
I'm sure there is something similar for keyboards too.
Re: Re: Music recording software
By: datavase to Nightfox on Mon Oct 12 2009 09:52:09
AFAIK this delay is due something called latency, and is usually provoked the hardware. Expensive sound cards have less latency. Usually, trying to
The Behringer V-Amp 3 that I was mentioning claims to have
"No-latency gu recording on your PCùedit". Apparently gets it using the UCA222 USB Audio interface (http://www.behringer.com.au/EN/Products/UCA222.aspx).
I'm sure there is something similar for keyboards too.
Yeah, USB probably does introduce some latency for MIDI. However, I've
used 2 different USB MIDI keyboards on both a Mac and Windows, and on the Mac, there was no percieved latency, but there was in Windows. The difference seems to be a hardware MIDI synthesizer vs. software MIDI synthesizer, at least on Windows.
With Windows, a hardware MIDI synthesizer (i.e. via an add-on sound card) has no noticeable latency, whereas a software MIDI synthesizer does.
As for Mac, it was a Mac Mini I was using, and I was using Garage Band. I'm not sure how, but it had no noticeable MIDI latency. Since the Mac Mini is Apple's least expensive Mac, I would guess that the Mac Mini's MIDI is on the motherboard at most, but considering its size, it may not have any MIDI onboard, in which case it would have to be software-based. Either way, there is no noticeable MIDI latency.
Nightfox
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Well, one thing to consider is that one of the markets to which Apple is focusing since long time ago is Music Production, hence I guess they have tweak their machines and/or operating system and software to work as bett possible for musician.
One estra point for Apple :-)
datavase wrote to All <=-
Recording: Garage Band on an Apple MacBook (Simple and useful)
Nightfox wrote to datavase <=-
I've used Garage Band before and also found it to be simple and useful.
I don't have a Mac now, but I'd almost consider buying a Mac Mini
(again) just for Garage Band. I think it would be nice to have Garage Band available for Windows. :) Or perhaps even Linux.
Nightfox wrote to datavase <=-
I've tried it out, and it does look similar to Garage Band. I still
feel like Garage Band is the ultimate in ease of use though, and I like the virtual instrument sounds that Garage Band comes with.
datavase wrote to Nightfox <=-
Well, one thing to consider is that one of the markets to which Apple
is focusing since long time ago is Music Production, hence I guess they have tweak their machines and/or operating system and software to work
as better as possible for musician.
There's an old joke that used to go around the Mac world. When people
say, "I like GarageBand - how much to purchase for Windows?" the answer was, "$499, and Aplle with throw in a Mac Mini to run it on." :-)
Since your message is from 2009 I don't know if you're still here, but
if you are - have you seen the amp modeling that's built into the newer GarageBand? I actually use an iPad on an iKlip for a lyrics machine
when I'm onstage, and I have GarageBand running via iRig for the
effects. Super fast to change to other presets, though you can't do
it via footswitch. :-)
Nightfox wrote to jimmy anderson <=-
Re: Re: Music recording software
By: jimmy anderson to Nightfox on Fri May 10 2013 11:40:00
Since your message is from 2009 I don't know if you're still here, but
if you are - have you seen the amp modeling that's built into the newer GarageBand? I actually use an iPad on an iKlip for a lyrics machine
when I'm onstage, and I have GarageBand running via iRig for the
effects. Super fast to change to other presets, though you can't do
it via footswitch. :-)
I haven't seen the amp modeling, but that sounds cool. I have since discovered Mixcraft for Windows, which is very much like Garage Band,
and I think it might even be a little easier to use. Since I mainly
use Windows, Mixcraft is what I've been playing around with for music recording.
Nightfox wrote to jimmy anderson <=-
I've since discovered Mixcraft for Windows, which is very much like
Garage Band, and I think is just as easy (if not more easy) than Garage Band. I like it. Not much motivation for me to use a Mac for music recording now. :P
To be clear, when I'm using GarageBand like I'm talking about (on stage) I'm not recording, just using it for the modeling and effects...
Not sure I made that clear. :-) That's GarageBand on the iPad, like using the other stomp box effects apps, only you have the full GarageBand too.
When I'm recording I use GarageBand on the computer and all my
recording so far has been "acoustic." Even though my guitars are
acoustic electric, I record into a snowball USB mic, even bass. My
wife has an acoustic bass that is also electric, but I play it
via the mic.
My goal, at least with my latest recordings, is to make a "home grown"
CD that best mimics what you hear when you see me perform in a
writer's round or house concert. Nothing over the top produced -
no extra instruments brought in. I will maybe add a track of
"acoustic picking" or even mandolin, but it's still all "acoustic"
in nature.
Nightfox wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
That's cool.. Definitely one way to do it.
I do like the "virtual" instruments that the recording software
provides. Since I don't play in a band (yet, at least), I like being
able to do the other parts when I record music.