GarageBand substitute?

[Matt Price]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 03:40:24PM -0600, Ian Kabeary wrote:
> On 6/3/06, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> >
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >a friend was just visiting with his new PowerMac & my daughter was
> >enthralled by GarageBand.  For her, the main attraction was the
> >sizable library of loops for itnegrating into songs, and the midi
> >editor, which was pretty easy for her to use.
> >
> >I was wondering whether there was any way I could arrange some kind of
> >a substitute for her on my Dapper box (short of finding a hacked Macos
> >ISO & running it under vmware...).  Any suggestions?

> Look at Rosegarden. I think it requires KDE.
> It looks powerful though.

It does look very powerful.  But my daughter's 7 years old... so power
isn't exactly what I need.  Instead I am hoping to find something
straightforward & intuitive, along the lines of garageband (rather
than, say, cubase, or ProTools).  

I'll keep looking!

matt



> ~Ian
> 

> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Matt
> >
> >
> >
> >Matt Price          matt.price at utoronto.ca
> >History Department, University of Toronto
> >(416) 978-2094
> >
> 
> 
> 



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Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
History Department, University of Toronto
(416) 978-2094
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