On several occasions over the last few years, I've stopped by Future Shop, and drooled over the Mac computers. The Garageband program, in particular, looked to be a fun tool to spend some time with, and one of my many dreams is to eventually buy a Macbook, and using Garageband, assemble some music. The process can be fairly simple, and if you can find the snippets of music that more or less match the music you keep hearing in your head, you can build a song in a few hours. No awkward music lessons required.
Part of this particular daydream was to eventually come up with enough music so that I could plug my Macbook in at Open Mic night. Clearly, I'd have to come up with song titles and a band name. iRandy and the Garagebanditos was the result.
There are several other music composition programs out there, and a few years ago, I even downloaded a Windows-friendly program, and created some music. Unfortunately, our computer died shortly thereafter, and my few pitiful songs - including my first opus, "Hoptercopter Blues", died with it.
The dream hasn't died though. One day, (likely when we can least afford it) our Acer laptop will bite the big one, and we'll have to replace it. Hopefully with a Macbook. With Garageband installed on it. You can see where this is heading. Before you know it, I'll have the band back together.
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ReplyDeleteGarageband is wicked. My Mac-using roommate loves it; we use it to splice mistakes out of our piano recordings (mwuhahaha). There's actually an open-source (free!) alternative that I've started using on my crappy Linux laptop that does the job pretty well. It's called Audacity and there is a Windows release as well. I only really use it for recording and editing, but it might have composition tools as well . . . worth looking into!