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GarageBand Roundup
Wired covers the GarageBand revolution. Matt Van Horm writes "MacBand.com is an online directory of songs and loops created by users of Apple's GarageBand software who submit their work. Songs are organized by category and loops are organized by genre, instrument and mood, and are rated with a system similar to the one in iTunes." franklinrh writes in about the free loops available from Access, and others note free loops from Bitshift Audio and Drums on Demand. And if you want to import MIDI files into GarageBand, check out Dent du MIDI. What other software -- and equipment -- are you using with GarageBand? I've got my setup pumping out tunes.
He doesn't give GarageBand enough credit. First, the sounds: yes, the horn sounds are weak, and the string sounds are not much better, but the piano sounds are very good, and so are the guitars. Also, I don't think he really stresses how GarageBand is good enough for the music recording needs of most people. All most people need is what it does very well.
That said, I am grateful to him for his plea against people pumping out elevator music crap. Loops should be used sparingly, if at all. The only time I really use loops is for drums.
It means "I am better than you and because it is becoming harder to assert that by virtue of my crummy music, I shall now assert it by virtue of the tools I use to create it, because it is the only way I can bolster my pathetic self image."