iLife '04 - First Impressions


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I'm sold.

We've got a management project where we have to produce a product and everything that goes along with it from documentation to the sales info. We wrote a version of "name that tune" similar to whats on the iPod but with multiplayer support. and it uses your iTunes library

Anyway, for the sales pitch we're going to bash out a few commercials and generally do really push the low budget angle and go for cheese factor. Now I think in addition a 10 minute infomercial with custom music is going to be a great addition.

Keynote for the speech, iMovie to clip video, keynote for presentation graphics, omnigraffle for flowcharts etc, GarageBand for the soundtrack and some sample tunes, iDVD to burn the whole mess. I feel like that kid in the saturday night live apple parody; "Macintosh Jr. The power to crush the other kids" :)

http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/snl-macintosh-jr.html

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There's one thing I'd like to know, since I haven't iLife yet :(, I have a bro of 14, and he is the one who mostly will use Garage Band, he is a guitar player ;), does it came with a paper manual, or with the online help? My bro would love to know it, because he's not friendly with online manuals....

thanks...

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I got iLife last night and the first thing I did was play around with garageband. I had a song going in a couple of minutes. Then I made some porn music for my friend. iPhoto is really nice , extremely fast. iDVD and iMovie I have never used =(

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There's one thing I'd like to know, since I haven't iLife yet :(, I have a bro of 14, and he is the one who mostly will use Garage Band, he is a guitar player ;), does it came with a paper manual, or with the online help? My bro would love to know it, because he's not friendly with online manuals....

thanks...

You don't get any paper manual with iLife, all you get is the little pullout broacher thing.

But to be honest, you really don't need a manual it's so simple and straightforward :) just plug and strum :cool:

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Wow, garageband is really a nice app, Software instruments dont work at all on my G3 though, but anything using loops is perfect which is mostly what I wanted to do.

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I just tried out GB in the Apple store tonight. I must say, I'm was very impressed, but I was also a bit confused at first. I had some trouble getting used to the interface at first (the eye icon for sound effects? WTF?), but I had it down after a little while. I'll have to purchase it on govt. discount soon, as I had some geniune fun with it, and am looking forward to cranking out some kickin' tunes for my radio show :)

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I have to say though, what the hell was apple smoking when they decided to add WOOD to the interface, looks hideous!

I agree with you, but i think it has been made to recreate the look af an old studio.... at least i hope! :p

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stayed late after work last night to play with it on the dual2 w/23". i messed around quickly with all the new apps and garange band is awsome. even for someone who has hardly ever used a mac let alone os x it was so easy to get a song going. my dad says that once i sell my compaq laptop well get my powerbook. i cant wait. gonna make some ads for local classifieds tonite. hope it sells quick

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I have to say though, what the hell was apple smoking when they decided to add WOOD to the interface, looks hideous!

Well, the main mixer we use WREK looks disturbingly similar to the interface of GB. I think that's what they're going for :)

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I have to say though, what the hell was apple smoking when they decided to add WOOD to the interface, looks hideous!

Yeah, I hate the interface, I wish I could change it to Aqua :(

Even brushed metal wouldnt look bad on this app....

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Well, the main mixer we use WREK looks disturbingly similar to the interface of GB. I think that's what they're going for :)

Exactly. I don't mind it. It's quite original, and sets GarageBand apart from other applications. In this case, it looks like a tool in real life that does the same thing as it. Very good idea on Apple's part, IMO.

Superfula, of course it's not the new brushed metal. I'm guessing it'll just be GarageBand only, or maybe some other audio apps that Apple releases that do mixing, but it seems like GB and Soundtrack are the only ones (and Soundtrack already uses the Pro Kit, IIRC).

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Yeah, I hate the interface, I wish I could change it to Aqua :(

In /Applications/Garaage Band.app/Resources/ you've got dfleft1.tiff, dfleft2.tiff, dfright1.tiff, etc. They're just a bunch of .tiff files. Go nuts :D

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