Finally recorded something
February 10, 2007
It’s been much too long since I hooked up my NT1 condenser mic to my UA-5 to my mixer to my monitors to my computer and actually recorded some music. The running excuse for some time has been that Tracktion, my all-time favourite sequencer, is not compatible with my MacBook. Version 3 will be, and is “coming soon”, but so far nothing.
So instead, I used Apple GarageBand. Since this is a demo for my friend Alice who may sing this with me (and I’m not a very good producer… I only know what I need to know to put some of my ideas down, and I play keyboards like my father types – with two fingers) it’s pretty rough. There are a lot of presets in play. The drums are Funky Drums 5 or something like that. 
However, the experience was very pleasant. GarageBand has just enough features to be useful, and generally doesn’t get in the way. It’s nowhere near as powerful or fast (in the UI sense) as Tracktion, but it didn’t hinder me in any way, and the range of presets, effects and instruments covers all the basic needs. When it comes to recording, I am the kind of person who thinks less is more. Most tools suffer from knob overload.
Well… I had hoped to upload it here, but it seems WordPress doesn’t like .m4a files. Oh well. Rest assured it would’ve been moderately decent sounding.
xx
[...] Martin Aspeli: Finally recorded something [...]
Hi.
Why not exporting it from Garageband in Highest Quality, pu it in iTunes, and reconverting it into mp3 ? I remember you playing acoustic guitar in a MrTopf video in a PloneSpring… would like to listen to that
By the way, why not using Logic Express or Digital Performer? Both run on x86.
Tracktion fits my brain. I don’t like Logic or DP. Or Cubase. Ick.
WordPress doesn’t like mp3 any more than it likes m4a, it basically only allows me to upload images. I really ought to buy a server somewhere, but money and all that…
Martin