:: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 ::

Apple's Consumer Music Revolution

Apple's new software is music to me ears ::Some of you may think that I have dropped off the face of the Earth, maybe gone to Mars with the rover. I assure you, I have not. I just haven't felt that I had anything important to say recently.

But Apple has once again teased me out of my shell.

I've been a guitar player since I was 13 and write and sing songs. At one time (before the full-time job took over), I was in bands that played clubs and weddings. We spent hours with four-track tape recorders trying to make demos of our songs that sounded halfway decent enough to grab the attention of record-company executives.

As I've grown older, I still play, but not as often. I consider myself to be more of an amateur musician these days. I've been interested in getting further into the depths of the electronic music revolution -- considering my musical talent and my all-out geekness -- but have found it hard to justify the hundreds of dollars needed for the programs needed to do it. Apple's Soundtrack awakened my desire somewhat, but it's $299 price tag was still a bit much for a program that only worked with loops. I spent hours trying to dream up a way to get Propellerhead's Reason to work nicely with it, so I could combine MIDI with my compositions, but it just wasn't possible.

Enter GarageBand, the new program announced this week by Apple during Steve Jobs' keynote speech at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.

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:: Steve 12:58 PM [+] ::
Apple's Consumer Music Revolution