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How to Make GarageBand Work with Your Plug-ins – Even Though Apple Hid Them
GarageBand is a pretty amazing no-cost tool. You get a solid, reliable production app built on the same framework as Logic. It has loads of built-in sounds – instruments and loops. It has easy-to use but capable editing, complete with notation view. There’s now a virtual Drummer which can be fun for sketching out song […]
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Cheap Tape Saturation Hack: Delicious Distortion with a Tape-to-CD Adapter
What a lovely coincidence that tape, originally a recording medium, works beautifully for distortion and saturation. Whatever the reason, tape saturation is a popular effect. If you want subtle, pristine saturation, there are various meticulous models of high-quality studio equipment. That was one topic in our interview earlier this week with Universal Audio’s Dr. David […]
Fast Fingers: Video, Mappings Shows You Pad Drumming on MPC, Ableton, Beyond
How to do mpc pad finger drumming from Brandon Murphy on Vimeo. Composer, musician, and drummer Brandon Murphy has put together a how-to video on playing and programming beats with a 4×4 grid. One reason to pay attention: he’s a real drummer, and had been just as skeptical about the value of all this as […]
Tutorial: Send Video Between Two Macs, with DV Over Firewire
Peter Kirn - July 30, 2009
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