djay, which I’ve covered before, has been upgraded. Of course, you already knew that, because it uses the insanely cool Sparkle framework, and it offered to download the update, install itself, and re-launch when you last ran 1.1.
I was playing with making Quartz Composer effects for iMovie last night when I made an interesting (though somewhat obvious) discovery. The “Audio FX” section of iMovie HD 6 is actually a number of AudioUnit components hidden inside the iMovie application bundle. Go to your Applications folder, and do a… Continue reading
This hint takes advantage of one of the Podcasting features in GarageBand 3 for musical use. In GB 3, one of the new Generators is “Sound Effects”, with presets such as “Applause and Laughter”, and “Radio Sounds” (which I’m particularly fond of). Let’s try it out: Create a new Software… Continue reading
Adobe recently announced the Beta of Soundbooth, a Cool Edit/Audition-lite-y kind of audio editor. I had some good hopes for this, since I’m an old-school Cool Edit Fan who has since moved on to better Operating Systems. While I like Audacity, it does crash a bit more often than I’d… 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