Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood

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Mon, 19 Jan 2004

Playing around with GarageBand

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I played around with GarageBand, apple's new application (which you must actually pay for), and it's a lot of fun. I've been waiting for a music sequencer "for the rest of us" for a long time. I had thought that somebody needed to take up this project, but it wasn't going to be me; it's just not my field of expertise. Anyhow, I don't have (anymore) a MIDI keyboard to plug into the application, and I know how to play a guitar about as much as I know how to fly a plane, perform brain surgery, or program for MS-Windows. So I played around with just the built-in riffs. The result is here: A Total Waste of Time (AAC/m4a format — you may need to option-click on the link to download it!), from the never-to-be-released album, A Total Waste of Disk Space. Don't expect it to be listenable. But it was kind of fun to put together this mix of hip-hop rhythms, Nordic strings, and gospel-sounding organ.