Hi fellow visionaries,
music was my first love, and while it certainly won't be my last, it
still plays an important role in my life. So as soon as I learned that
the Mac comes with a music suite called Garage Band, I started
experimenting with it. I have now produced five pieces of music with
it and I love it to pieces.
Up until now, the Garage Band experience for me has consisted of
recording one track, then recording the second while listening to the
first, then recording the third while listening to the first two, etc.
I learned about real and software instruments, about panning and
mixing, about effects, and about quantization. So what comes out is
listenable, if that word even exists.
However, I feel that now is the time to raise the bar. For example, I
don't trust my fingers, or my voice, for that matter, to do the exact
same thing twice, so I'd like to be able to copy recorded segments
around. I feel this is incredibly basic but I simply can't figure out
how to do it without a mouse. Or I'd like to tell the software to loop
a drum sequence I recorded. Or to transpose part of a track. The list
goes ever on, as does creativity. The music in my mind repeats,
twists, turns, jumps over its own shadow, lands on its head, in short,
it's alive. To bring it through, I need a bird's eye view of the song
I'm composing. At the moment I see it as a set of tracks which I can
mix and pan and effectualize and quantize and, if I'm sufficiently
dissatisfied with them, ultimately delete and re-record. The raw
material is there, but I can't find my tools. These tools are editing,
moving, copying, looping, fading in and out, transposing, splitting,
re-arranging ... in short, not just playing notes but composing music.
So I'd like to ask around: Has anyone got any ideas how I can do some
or all of the above things using just the keyboard and Voiceover?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Felix Grützmacher
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