The limit was bumped up to 5 machines recently. That helps a little bit.
It would be nice though if Apple let you deauthorize a machine from their web site. People will forget to deauthorize machines before they sell them. It would be a lot easier to deauthorize via the web rather than requiring that you contact Apple.
Will I use the new Hymn/Playfair program? Oh, probably - my.Mac account runs out and I'm not going to renew, and it's how I bought my iTunes songs in the past. So, now I'm kind of boned . ..
Subscribing to.Mac has nothing to do with keeping your songs. Your machine (and 4 others) can be authorized to play songs linked to your AppleID. You don't have to have any.Mac account at all. Never did.
You aren't subscribing to your music -- you bought it.
No, they're not the same product at all. Garage Band basically does three things.
First, you can use Garage Band to build pieces using loops. What you do is you layer short, looping digital samples to create a piece of music. This is what Soundtrack does as well.
Second, Garage Band can be used to record audio that you send in through the audio inputs on your computer, e.g., guitar, vocals, animal noises, etc. Soundtrack doesn't support this.
Finally, Garage Band includes software instruments. Here, the idea is that you connect a MIDI keyboard to your computer and it sends information (not audio) about the notes that are being played. The software instruments are virtual instruments -- if you want your keyboard to like sound like a tuba, it's a tuba. You want a grand piano, you got a grand piano. Soundtrack does nothing remotely like this.
Garage Band lets you mix these three different approaches freely.
The problem for some people (myself included) is that the installer for uControl 1.4 blocks you from installing on 10.3.2. It reports a bogus message about requiring 10.3.x (!).
I used Pacifist to circumvent the version check and force install it. It's working fine now.
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The limit was bumped up to 5 machines recently. That helps a little bit.
It would be nice though if Apple let you deauthorize a machine from their web site. People will forget to deauthorize machines before they sell them. It would be a lot easier to deauthorize via the web rather than requiring that you contact Apple.
I have some good news for you then. Finale and Sibelius both support MusicXML. There's more info here.
No, they're not the same product at all. Garage Band basically does three things.
First, you can use Garage Band to build pieces using loops. What you do is you layer short, looping digital samples to create a piece of music. This is what Soundtrack does as well.
Second, Garage Band can be used to record audio that you send in through the audio inputs on your computer, e.g., guitar, vocals, animal noises, etc. Soundtrack doesn't support this.
Finally, Garage Band includes software instruments. Here, the idea is that you connect a MIDI keyboard to your computer and it sends information (not audio) about the notes that are being played. The software instruments are virtual instruments -- if you want your keyboard to like sound like a tuba, it's a tuba. You want a grand piano, you got a grand piano. Soundtrack does nothing remotely like this.
Garage Band lets you mix these three different approaches freely.
Learnt is British English. Grammar, however, is spelled with an 'a' all over the world.
The problem for some people (myself included) is that the installer for uControl 1.4 blocks you from installing on 10.3.2. It reports a bogus message about requiring 10.3.x (!). I used Pacifist to circumvent the version check and force install it. It's working fine now.
The short answer is add or remove some RAM, then reset the PRAM 3 times. More details here.