Garageband... will it run on a pc?

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:58 pm

cheers

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:01 pm

Nope.

william · Post by **william** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:41 pm

Zaphod wrote:Nope.

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:07 pm

what if you run an OSX emulator? Would it take up much memory?

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:09 pm

why would you want to, just out of interest?

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:06 pm

just want to have a play with it, everyone said its really simple to use.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:09 pm

it would be alot of wasted effort.

i've tried it, wouldn't recommend it unless you've got a mac with nothing else on it for recording. everything i did in it that wasn't recorded (ie sequencing and the like) didn't sound much better than midi. if you want to record audio get audacity, if you want to sequence something there's better sequencers out there.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:10 pm

yeah, if you went to all the trouble of running it on an emulator you'd be better running logic or something. it's still pretty piss easy to use, but much better.

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:11 pm

Zaphod wrote:it would be alot of wasted effort.

i've tried it, wouldn't recommend it unless you've got a mac with nothing else on it for recording. everything i did in it that wasn't recorded (ie sequencing and the like) didn't sound much better than midi. if you want to record audio get audacity, if you want to sequence something there's better sequencers out there.

Just want something really simple for laying down/ working out guitar parts for my band. Is audacity easy to use? Basically want some approaching a 4 trk in pc form.
Oh and idiot proof!

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:13 pm

audacity would be fine for that. i've used it for doing wee demos and stuff on my girlfriend's computer, apart from a few glitches and crashes it's ok.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:14 pm

audacity is well easy, hit record and off you go.

it's not pretty but it'll get the job done.

NOTE: google fixing audacity latency before you do anything with it, overdubbing stuff is arsey before you sort it. the first link is a pretty decent (but slow going) youtube video on it last time i checked.

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:16 pm

Cheers lads, I will be checking it out.

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 4:53 pm

RUN AWAY FROM GARAGE BAND. It's evil, does random shit, and fucks stuff up for no reason.

It will randomly eat tracks for no reason, move tracks for no reason and shorten tracks for no reason.
Garage band fucks yur shit up

JamesSmann · Post by **JamesSmann** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 4:57 pm

cakewalk ftw unless you has teh caysh for pro-tewls.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:03 pm

I use GB, but obviously not very much. I use Audacity for podcasts. It's got some neat, simple, no-frills features. Ugly GUI.

william · Post by **william** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:27 pm

light rail coyote wrote:RUN AWAY FROM GARAGE BAND. It's evil, does random shit, and fucks stuff up for no reason.

It will randomly eat tracks for no reason, move tracks for no reason and shorten tracks for no reason.
Garage band fucks yur shit up

i havent run into any of these things.

not that its the greatest, but it is handy as sort of a sketchbook.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:59 pm

william wrote:
light rail coyote wrote:RUN AWAY FROM GARAGE BAND. It's evil, does random shit, and fucks stuff up for no reason.

It will randomly eat tracks for no reason, move tracks for no reason and shorten tracks for no reason.
Garage band fucks yur shit up
i havent run into any of these things.

not that its the greatest, but it is handy as sort of a sketchbook.

I've had the randomly disappear track thing, annoying. But for free with the machine... it's priced right.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:05 pm

I've had to post this too many times. wtf people.

http://www.reaper.fm/download.php?l=1

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:26 pm

sig it or something.

people need to get on reaper, for free it's very good.