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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: Garageband PC equivalent? |
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Is there anything similar for Windows?
I love plugging in my electric guitar and turning the fuzz box all the way to eleven. |
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pandemic902
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: Dorim-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Ableton Live is the BEST music software, bar none. Really great for sketching out songs too as you can loop as much as you want. |
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eamo
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Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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I was wondering the same thing just a few weeks ago!
After a bit of research it seemed most people thought Acoustica Mixcraft was the closest thing to Garageband. I 'acquired' it from Demonoid and it seems quite good.......but never having used Garageband, I can't be sure if it really compares. |
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pandemic902
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| I used Mixcraft but couldn't get the guitar working. Is it possible to plug a guitar in and use different effects like Garageband? |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Fruity Loops (now FL Studio) is rather comparable to Garageband in it's simplicity. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I used Mixcraft but couldn't get the guitar working. Is it possible to plug a guitar in and use different effects like Garageband? |
If you just want a software guitar effects processor there are plenty to be had. Just google "software guitar effects processor".
If you want multi-track recording software there are also umpteen options. CoolEdit Pro (awesome, despite being ten years old), Ableton and Cubase are geared towards recording live instruments. Fruityloops and Acid are geared more towards arranging loops. These are only the ones I've used, there are more.
If you want real versatility (and a challenge) learn Csound or ChucK. They're both programming languages that deal with generating and processing sound.
Csound is ancient. It's been in development for something like 30 years. If you don't have at least a basic knowledge of sound synthesis, then you may as well go beat your head against a brick wall than learn Csound. If you're comfortable dealing with amplitudes and frequencies of various wave functions, you're 1/1000th of the way there.
ChucK is relatively new. It uses more compact code than Csound that makes simpler tasks easier, but more complicated tasks more difficult. Csound is to C++ what ChucK is to Java. Real time sound processing is handled better in ChucK since when development on Csound began computer processors had trouble loading text files, let alone processing digital sound.
http://www.csounds.com/menu/beginners.html
http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
They're both intimidating at first, but awesome once you get some basics down. The boards at http://electro-music.com have some great information. Check out the "One-Line ChucK Crazy" thread. Kijjaz does some amazing stuff in one line of code. |
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