fucanay said:
Thats right, a Pro app runs better on an iBook than an iApp. They need to step it up a notch with GB or it is going to get little use from the people they target the app at in the first place.
fucanay
Psst.... It's secretly meant to nudge g5 Mac sales.... But don't tell them I told you this...
You want Logic, Performer or ProTools response? Buy Logic, Performer or ProTools. You can still have similar overhead issues, it is just that they have tweaked the code on those over years of the apps working on slower systems.
I have seen g5s at the local Apple Store choke on GarageBand. One thing may be a bug... it doesn't like to save a song less than 32 measures sometimes, not sure if that is a software instruments (midi) or real instruments (loops, audio) issue. But it can be beachball city even on a g5.
Its great that it closes a window rather than quits though, with 1.1. If only I had the bandwidth to download.
The easiest way to improve GB performance is to go into the tracks, and turn off the effects. If you have a slower machine (I run it on a g4 400), the reverb, etc... are the biggest processor hogs. If you cut off the effects, or use them more sparingly, you can play most of the included demo songs.
You can drag drop AIFF or WAV files, although the filename extensions, if they exist, should be in lowercase. You can import Midi with Dent Du Midi. You can convert a midi file to aiff with quicktime and drag that aiff file.
And you could figure Tempo with some third party Tap Tempo app, although tap tempo should be built in to a future build. I try to match general tempo to a AIFF by playing along on another track, tapping quarter or eight notes, then adjusting the song temp until the beats of the Software Instrument (Midi) track seem to fall within the measures properly. Or you can use the waveform peaks of an audio file, if it is simple enough, to fit a measure by sliding the tempo around to something close.
Yes, Apple Loops are like REX, Acid loop files... they transpose pitch and change tempo within reason, because it is sorta chopped up into individual note events. I just don't want people to automatically start calling a file with the aif extension (file.aif) a loop, it could be non-looped not chopped, AIFF file just as easily.
And a mild surprise... if you have any audio units smart programs, or demos of such, installed, you can find that software instrument made available to GarageBand, if you dig a bit into editing the software instruments.
Oops, sorry, I responded to every thought in the entire thread that stuck....
my bad.
