Poll: Do you currently play a musical instrument

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Vote: Poll: Do you currently play a musical instrument

[Trowaman]

well besides the fact that I got a 20 gig for X-mas, why settle for 4 gigs when for $50 more I can get a 15? That is a great deal, 11 more gigs for $50.

[Flowbee]

I'm primarily a drummer, but I play a bit of keyboard and guitar as well (I'll be interested to plug my electric bass into GarageBand and see what kind of result I get.) I've also been learning to play the chromatic accordion for the past six months (it's got buttons instead of piano keys).

I currently use Ableton Live to compose and remix... and I'm really looking forward to firing up GarageBand (yes, I know I can't re-wire them together... but I can export my Garageband tracks and re-import them into Live for further manipulation. I can't wait!)

[bishopduke]

I can play 2 instruments. 2 Technics 1200's.

[Nermal]

Originally posted by Trowaman
well besides the fact that I got a 20 gig for X-mas, why settle for 4 gigs when for $50 more I can get a 15? That is a great deal, 11 more gigs for $50.

[Doctor Q]

Piano, trumpet, kazoo. I mastered them in that order.

[Trowaman]

D'OH!!!! Poll changed right before I voted. *face turns red*

anyways, I'd like to change my vote to yes, I play the Euphonium/Baritone and I know how to play Trombone and Trumpet.

[vniow]

Does a microphone count?

[anubis]

i currently play the trombone in the NMSU "Pride of New Mexico" marching band, consisting of 220 members. i'm also a trombone player for the NMSU "Roadrunner Revue" basketball pep band. i also play the euphonium/baritone.

[Squire]

I play the sax. (I would've had to vote "not currently" except I picked up my horn and started practicing again a few weeks ago.) My own saxophone is a black lacquered Yamaha YTS-875 Custom tenor, but I consider the baritone sax to be my specialty. I used to play in a Big Band, a military band, and an R&B band.

I'm eagerly waiting for GarageBand to be released here. I'm also interested in the Mac version of Finale 2004.

Squire

[MacFan26]

Originally posted by Squire
I'm also interested in the Mac version of Finale 2004.

Squire

My dad writes a lot of music, but he switched to Sibelius a few years ago, have you heard of that program? He used to use Finale previously.

By the way, my instrument is trumpet, and a little piano, and I love playing cello, but I don't own one, so I never practice, lol.

[evil_santa]

I got about 8 guitars & basses, and a few synth modules from when i use to play in bands in the late 80s. Last year I got Cubase ( upgraded from my 80s Atari ver) & Reason. I also got Soundtracks with FCP4. what i dont have is the time to do anything with them!!!!!

[warcraftmaster]

looks good for apple new app
well who want the new i life
i know i do

[edesignuk]

Used to play piano and saxophone when I was younger, but stopped...now wish I hadn't, I'd love to be able to just sit at a piano and play.

[redAPPLE]

Originally posted by Trowaman
well besides the fact that I got a 20 gig for X-mas, why settle for 4 gigs when for $50 more I can get a 15? That is a great deal, 11 more gigs for $50.

wrong thread buddy?

[redAPPLE]

Originally posted by vniow
Does a microphone count?

i don't think so. coz (almost) every mac has a mic, right? so we are all musicians?

[sethypoo]

I play the steel drums, the double seconds to be exact. Anyone else a pan player?

I also play alto sax, and I sing baritone/bass.

Madrigals rule.

[CrackedButter]

I use to try to play the guitar and i gave it up because i lacked the patience and the time. But GarageBand is something i am interested in. Just like with a guitar i could create mediocure music to entertain myself with.

I'm going to buy the GarageBand expansion pack as well.

[MattG]

Yes! I play guitar, and I'm really exciting about getting Garageband.

[Centris 650]

I'll be the oddball and admit the only thing I can play is my ipod. I have abosolutely no musical ability. I was in our middle school band and played drums for a brief time and I was horrible!

I did purchase iLife mainly for iDVD and now the other iApps. I really don't know what I'll do with Garageband... who knows maybe I'll learn to play an instrument now?

[crazytom]

I play guitar primarily, I'm OK at bass, poor at drums, dabbled at piano but gave it up. I'm looking forward to GarageBand just to work on my guitar chops.

I have a feeling there's a lot of people that are going to be disappointed with GarageBand, either they'll expect it to do too much or they'll realize that they lack the talent to do anything more than link a bunch of loops together....

[Aeolius]

Does anyone know if Garage Band has a proprietary file format? I play keyboard and have friends who play keyboard and guitar. As we all use Macs, yet live in different cities, I wonder if I'd be able to burn a Garage Band session onto a CD-R (I'm assuming that with vocals, the file size would be HUGE), so that we can compose songs together? Or, do I need to buy a new mini iPod, to save Garage Band sessions onto then ship it from city to city?

One of us is fluent with ProTools LE (and a Digi 001), I just got an M-Box with ProTools LE for x-mas, and the third only uses his Mac for music when he visits his brother (with the Digi 001). I'm hoping Garage Band will prove to be simple enough for the three of us to put together simple jam session (albeit less polished than with ProTools).

[crazytom]

Originally posted by Aeolius
Does anyone know if Garage Band has a proprietary file format? I play keyboard and have friends who play keyboard and guitar. As we all use Macs, yet live in different cities, I wonder if I'd be able to burn a Garage Band session onto a CD-R (I'm assuming that with vocals, the file size would be HUGE), so that we can compose songs together? Or, do I need to buy a new mini iPod, to save Garage Band sessions onto then ship it from city to city?

One of us is fluent with ProTools LE (and a Digi 001), I just got an M-Box with ProTools LE for x-mas, and the third only uses his Mac for music when he visits his brother (with the Digi 001). I'm hoping Garage Band will prove to be simple enough for the three of us to put together simple jam session (albeit less polished than with ProTools).

I'd assume that you could pass the 'base' file around to your friends pretty efficiently, that is, the one that would just contain the data of what loops, how many repeats, volume settings, etc. That file would be rather small because it wouldn't contain the actual loops, but rather the outline of the song. I also assume that anything you add to that (ie vocals) would be a rather large file, but nothing you couldn't fit on a CD. You'd just need to be careful of the permission settings for your friends to use it (maybe), and figure out where GarageBand would store any recorded files. The worst case scenario is that you save the entire file as mp3 or mp4 and your friends would import that stereo track into their program of choice...they wouldn't have control of the separate instruments, but they could add to it.


On a side note: I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned playing the skin flute. I'm sure there's more masters of that than care to admit!!!

[eyelikeart]

I've wanted to play the drums for a while. Something about the beating on them appeals to me.

[pivo6]

I used to play piano, saxophone, and clarinet in my younger days. I haven't picked them up in a while. I want to learn to play the accordion this year.