Remember how I mentioned we’d be revisiting the Tuvan throat-singing last week? Well, we did. This week’s show was every Tuvan throat-singing CD I could get my hands on, and some additions from Freesound, and a little contribution from the Delay Lama. It was also 2 1/2 hours long, as… Continue reading
So, GarageBand allows the use of AudioUnit plugins, but not its competition – Steinberg’s VSTi plugins. FXpansion have a special adapter, but it costs $99, and I’m pretty well broke. Is there a way we can use instruments such as Delay Lama in GarageBand without shelling out any hard earned… Continue reading
This show was loosely based around the idea of the four elements: 1. Air (breathing sounds, Tuvan throat-singing (a recent obsession of mine which will be revisited in a future episode), wind sounds) 2. Water (waves, ships, whales, the leaking air conditioner in the air studio) 3. Earth (plate tectonics,… Continue reading
This was actually a live performance. I was using my Yamaha AN-200 sequencer and GarageBand, and widget was playing guitar and triggering samples on her laptop. I know some of the samples came from freesound.
Since GarageBand 1.1, the program has had the little-known capability of using SoundFonts as a sound source (using the DLSMusicDevice AudioUnit). It’s not perfect, but it does work for simple 1-instrument SoundFonts (as well as the first voice of more complicated ones). Also, the excellent (and free) Crystal AudioUnit can… Continue reading