When I bought my Powerbook Macbook Pro, I also bought a copy of Final Cut Express. There was a special that allowed me to pay only $99 instead of $299 since I was also buying a new computer. I figured I’d need a video editor with more horsepower than iMovie at some point, so I bought it. Also included in the deal was Apple Soundtrack, which is sort of like Garageband’s big brother.
I’d tried Garageband before but not been real impressed with it. It felt like a toy and a lot of things didn’t seem intuitive. I haven’t used it since.
Soundtrack does a lot of the same things Garageband does, but with an interface that’s more comfortable to me (for what I imagine are mostly superficial reasons since it isn’t that much different). After playing around with it for an hour or so tonight, now I understand why people like Garageband (and by extension Soundtrack) so much: it makes any idiot feel like they could be a music composer.
In this case, I’m any idiot. I have a crappy loop for you, created during an hour when I’m sure I could have been doing something more productive, but wasn’t. Enjoy:
I’ve sworn by FL Studio/Fruityloops since about version 4.5. Never touched Garageband or Soundtrack, what with Apple hardware never being in my price range when I actually get around to buying hardware.
It’s amazing the no-good one can get up to with spare time and new software. And porn audio.
Two thumbs up!