One of the best ways to learn the guitar is definitely to study the styles and work of others. Having grown up through the TDK cassette generation before graduating to CD I spent many hours rewinding and repeating guitar solos in an often vain attempt to work the notes out by ear.
Garageband is one of those Apple applications that I appreciate massively. It isn’t the fact that it is one of the most powerful and easy to use podcast creators or audio editors but the appreciation comes for its power as a multitrack recorder. Having played in numerous bands growing up I am no stranger to multitrack tape recorders, I frankly hated them.
I’m definitely no stranger to connecting a guitar to a Mac for some Garageband recording but Aspyr software have come up with a guitar system that completely transforms my playing to a whole new level.
We have been fans of the Guitar Hero & Rockband games for a while but finally they have arrived for the UK Mac market in harmony with one of the biggest rock bands of the last thirty years.
Integrating the power of the Apple Mac into my guitar processing set up has always been a bit of an ambition. I have even addressed Guitar and Garageband in a previous post. Having eyed up the Native Instruments Guitar Rig Session for some time we managed to get our hands on one to put it through it’s paces. Low cost guitar to computer interfaces are becoming more and more popular and although this this is great news it brings with it the challenge of selecting the right device.
The combination of guitar and computer has really come a very long way in the last ten years. Stomp box chains and bags of nine volt batteries have been replaced to some extent by multiprocessor systems.
Anyone who has ever attempted to record music in a home studio via a (simple) four track will know only too well the pain and agony that runs parallel to the process. A few years ago the humble four track was the only affordable recording system for home use and computer based recording was the domain of large expensive studio systems.
Having received GTPlayer Express with a M-Audio USB device last year it was not long until I had invested in the upgrade the the full pro version. Well recently the product has been updated again the for of inTone – Guitar.
Radiohead and iTunes are giving Radiohead fans the opportunity to remix the band’s new single “Nude”, by making the separate ‘stems’ from the song available on iTunes. The ‘stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. Fans who purchase all five ‘stems’ from iTunes during the first week they are available will be sent an access code to a GarageBand file, which can be opened in GarageBand, Logic Studio or Logic Express. Finished mixes can be uploaded to www.radioheadremix.com, where the public can listen and vote for their favourite remix.
Check out : http://www.radioheadremix.com/
