Noulakaz

The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.

I’ve fallen in love with Garageband

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I’ve managed to make my brother’s Roland PC-300 controller keyboard work with my MacBook and I’ve just started using Garageband.

Let me tell you that it is a fantastic piece of software. It’s easy to use and, for me, as feature-packed as Logic Audio (which I was using previously on my PC).

Garageband comes with a fantastic set of Apple Loops which make music creation really painless.

Garageband offers a lot of virtual instruments and is also compatible with third-party Audio Units like the rather excellent Crystal that you can see in the picture above.

I’ll post some tracks hopefully by the end of the week.

Hello World! My MacBook has arrived!

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I’m delighted to finally have my Apple MacBook after 3 weeks. I won’t waste time reviewing it as you all know that it is just plain fantastic. Just a quick summary:

  • It’s beautiful
  • Mac OS X is beautiful
  • It becomes warm (and sometimes very warm after some hours of intensive use)
  • It works beautifully with my Livebox

As expected, here are the Photo Booth manipulated photos captured with the built-in iSight camera of the MacBook.

Here, Christina and I are (re)discovering the pleasure of having our photo being taken by “someone” else…

Here, Kyan and Anya are in awe of CoreImage technology:

And this is the ultimate proof that Steve Jobs has won ; Christina is reading the MacBook’s manual:

Fantastic, I tell you!

(PS: This is the first post I’m submitting from my MacBook and I’m using Safari…)

Mac OS X driver for the Roland PC-300

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I’m finally getting my Apple MacBook tomorrow. I’ve borrowed my brother’s old Roland PC-300 controller keyboard to have fun with Garageband. The latest Universal Binary driver for the PC-300 for Mac OS X is available on Roland’s website.

The manual in PDF format can be found elsewhere on Roland’s website.

I really don’t have any excuse for not composing a masterpiece tomorrow :-)