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Tuesday, February 1, 2005 |
Today I received my iLife '05, including GarageBand 2, together with Jam Pack 4 Symphony Orchestra. For someone who only barely knows a chord from a key this is some awesome power. The head swims at the horsepower that is unleashed by GarageBand. One gets a vision of the forces that open the gates of heaven and hell. Well, honestly, one doesn't get a feeling like that very often.
Be careful with GarageBand 2. Your 512 MB RAM is easily stressed to the limit (1 GB is recommended). A G4 Mac is the minimum you need; a G5 would be better. You need at least 10 GB to install and use (a short piece can take up hundreds of MBs or even 1 GB). So most people will install the loops (the Jam Pack 4 only is 3.62 GB) and save the finished works on an external larger drive.
Apple could have made it easier by allowing us to install the packs directly on an other drive. Now you have to install them on your HD and then drag and drop them somewhere on an other drive. The first version of GarageBand stored the loops in the HD/Library/Application Support/GarageBand folder (and when you had moved the loops, the aliases were installed there). Now they appear in HD/Library/Audio. After you have dragged and dropped the files onto your external drive, you can delete the contents of the folders in HD/Application Support and Audio. Start GarageBand and drag and drop the loop folders from the external drive into the loop browser of GarageBand (one by one). Choose the option to leave the loops in the current folder.
You can also move the samples and demo songs from your HD to the external drive. This will give you back several GBs. You can find these files in your Users/Shared folder. If you had GarageBand 1 you also want to replace the old 'Apple Loops for GarageBand' folder with the new one (it has about a 100 more loops).
Should you run into trouble importing audio files (mp3 or other), close GarageBand, go to your home/Library/Preferences folder and move the files com.apple.garageband.cs and com.apple.garageband.plist to your desktop, start GB and try adding audio files. If it works you can trash both preference files on your desktop.
By the way, the current theme (see yellow bar) was made with GarageBand 1.
Now, roll over Beethoven!
My temperature's risin, the juke box's blowin a fuse
My heart's beatin a rhythm, singin out rhythm and blues
Roll over beethoven, they're rockin in two by two.
11:02:47 PM
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© Copyright 2008 Hetty Litjens.
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