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Guitar Center and Apple join forces to teach users how to use GarageBand on a Mac
While competitors like to compete with Apple on price, Apple prides itself on offering an unparalleled user experience. Part of that offering includes Apple’s iLife suit of software. One of the more recent additions to that software set is GarageBand, which was first introduced by Steve Jobs in 2004. GarageBand is certainly a powerful application, […]
Continue reading...Apple unveils iLife ’11 with significant updates to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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Apple today announced major updates across its iLife suit of digital software. “This has got to be some of the highest value software in the world,” Steve Jobs explained during today’s “Back to Mac” presentation. iLife ’11 will ship standard on all new Macs and can be purchased today for an upgrade price of $49. First […]
Continue reading...Creating a song in GarageBand using OS X system sounds
Monday, December 14, 2009
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This video has been around the block before, but in case you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth checking out. It’s a song comprised in GarageBand using system sounds from OS X. Not too shabby.
Continue reading...Use GarageBand to sound like Kanye West and T-Pain
Monday, February 23, 2009
Came across this video today that teaches you how to adjust GarageBand settings so that you can sound like Kanye West. You know, not the Kanye that actually sings, but the electronicized version. I tried it out and it works as advertised, and lemme tell you, it does wonders for masking a genuinely bad voice. […]
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Apple’s multi-touch designer describes his inspiration – MacRumors Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray reports declining Mac sales – CNET iPhones now 33% of Rogers’ smartphone sales – Electronista AT&T hopes to rollout 4G technology by 2011 – Macworld Apple makes online music lessons easy with GarageBand – USA Today Apple buying up available flash RAM […]
Continue reading...iLife ’09 begins trend towards Intel only Macs
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
If you check out the fine print in iLife ’09, you’ll notice that ‘artist lessons’ in GarageBand will only work on Intel-based Macs. While some critics might cry foul, and argue that Apple is trying to force customers to upgrade so that they can get more money, the reality is probably closer to the fact […]
Continue reading...What do you get from a $5 GarageBand Artist Lesson?
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Apparently quite a bit. Gizmodo goes in-depth and reports that the Artist Lessons from GarageBand are worth the 5 bucks Apple is charging. Our copy of iLife ’09 is still in the mail, so we need to rely on the reviews of others to satiate us in the meantime! Gizmodo’s final take: So is it […]
Continue reading...Is the GarageBand Lesson Store the next big thing?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
TechCrunch reports that the GarageBand Lesson Store could be the next big thing: Apple’s Lesson Store is the perfect compromise. Each lesson offers a lengthy video of the artist discussing how to play their song section by section, which is displayed alongside the music being played (either in tab or traditional notation) and a diagram […]
Continue reading...Microsoft Songsmith – No need for GarageBand to worry
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Songsmith is a new music program Microsoft introduced at CES. I personally think its kind of absurd, but take a look at the video below and let me know what ya think. Could music creation be any less creatively inspired than this? Also, some are saying the computer used in the video is a MacBook […]
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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