Re: Garage Band
Re: Garage Band
- Subject: Re: Garage Band
- From: Christopher Corbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:21:33 -0800
On Jan 8, 2004, at 10:01 AM, Andrew Kimpton wrote:
On Jan 8, 2004, at 8:49 AM, Will Benton wrote:
On Jan 8, 2004, at 9:11 AM, Glenn Olander wrote:
Congrats to the Apple guys on Garage Band. Very nicely done!
Perhaps this is just a question for "the Apple guys": What is the
state of GB's AU support? Will it host instruments or just effects?
Can you run Apple Loops through AudioUnit effects? (It wasn't clear
from the website.)
From my brief experimentation at MacWorld yesterday it seems that each
track has an 'inspector' panel that allows you to adjust some of the
settings for the track including such things as the built-in EQ and
also to add a single (it seemed just one) AudioUnit to the track.
There didn't seem to be any automation for the parameters in the
inspector (or the AU) the only automation appeared to be for track and
master Volume.
I didn't notice if you could have a track that's an AU Instrument
though I'd hope that was exactly how the built-in software synth
instruments were being done - any one else notice ?
Andrew 8-)
As a user I'm excited about GB and can't wait to try it out.
However as a developer it's clear that it will present challenges for
third-party audio development. With Logic and Soundtrack what
this means is that Apple really owns an entire vertical slice of the
audio host application market for the Mac. I had perceived
consumer/hobbyist audio production as the last place where
"disruptive" product development could occur for the Mac.
(Leveraging CoreAudio to deliver higher feature sets at lower
prices, focusing on the consumer/student user). That door is
now closed.
One would hope that GB at least supports the standard CoreAudio
mechanisms for extensibility, because that may be the only way small
mac audio software dev shops like mine will be able to make money -
producing AU's, MusicDevices etc. If GB does -not- support this kind
of extensibility, it's a bad thing for us. Sure we can create low-end
host apps that do support it and sell them as competitors to GB, but
it will be extremely difficult to compete with something that's free
on every new mac. In general, the more features that are suppressed
or omitted in GB, the worse it will be for both Mac audio users and
third-party audio developers. I hope Apple is considering this.
On a positive note, the product info for GB asserts the need for
a MIDI keyboard - so this could be good for iPiano!
- Christopher
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