[Jim Dalrymple]

Peter, Jake, thanks for stopping by. There was no doubt about what service I was going to use.

[PeterTuneCore]

Our pleasure. :)

--Peter

[itexperience]

Hi there, We have been working on our first album with Garage band and Logic Pro/Studio for over 10 months now. The album is nearly finished and due to release locally in South Africa In July 2008. The band's name is Alright Mind.... Go to www.myspace.com/alrightmind to hear a sneak preview...It is not the final mix and still adding the last touches to the songs... I must say working with garage band and logic has been awsome dude.... Would be great to hear your stuff soon!!

Ronald

[itexperience]

Hi Jim,
Garage band and Logic Rock dude!!! We alomost completing our first debut album to release July 2008. For a sneak preview go to http://www.myspace.com/alrightmind and still finishing off the final touches before final mix etc. We have been working on the album for over 10 months now Garage band and Logic has made it so worth while...
Ron

[MHall6520]

I, too, use GarageBand to compose my music and I'm absolutely amazed that Apple gives this software away! With all the features this has, I would expect a company to sell this for at least $200 or higher easily. There are just a couple of things I wish they would add (or maybe they are there but I'm not aware of them - it seems the documentation for GB isn't that great).
First, it would be really helpful if you could have a visual sound editor on recorded instrument tracks where you could see the wave forms of the audio. I've lost count of the many times I have needed to just cut out a tiny little portion of sound at the end or the beginning of something on a track but I'm stuck doing it using the basic bar graph thing. I'll enlarge the timeline as much as I can but you still can't get much accuracy that way. And, second, for editing real instruments, it would be nice if it showed the musical notes (I've seen this to a small extent at times but it seems difficult to actually find and it doesn't seem easy to get to the place you need).
Otherwise, with the incredible filters, plugins, effects and especially the terrific loops and voices Apple puts out, it's hard to beat this application. I just wish they would give it some better documentation like a good user guide or something like that.
Mike

[major7]

I think it's for this reason that my friend used to refer to Garage Band as "the Real Pro Tools", because you had to get it right the first time, which it seems like only the pros can do!

[lwdesign]

Jim, this is such a great idea! I used to record, years ago, on one of the original Teac 144 compact cassette decks, which were high tech in their day. I've purchased Logic Express but have found it much less than intuitive and have always ended up quickly coming to a frustrating halt. The biggest missing piece in Logic is that I've never been able to find in the manual or online help, how to simply record a live audio track. It would seem this would be the simplest and most basic place to start, yet it seems never to be mentioned anywhere. Possibly I'm falling asleep and missing the relevant chapters, but I've never found a succinct step by step description of "here's how you record a track of live sound...". It seems like this point is assumed by the author of the manual that everyone already knows how to do this.
Do you have any good how-to references or tutorials for Logic Express that don't already assume that you know how to use the program?
I'm excited to read your continuing coverage, being a guitarist, writer and singer for many years. I have a substantial compendium of original material that I'm dying to record and mix.