ok well here is a run down of things before you guys get all excited here
now I am a professional musician with years of experience between macs and PCs with different recording packages.
Garage band is accessible to a limit and I emphasize the word limit. it will give you basic recording access. some control over accessing parameters for each midi track or software instrument track. audio editing and midi editing is in fact a rather serious problem as navigating and controlling with voiceover is incredibly awkward and not as informative as needed here
running multiple recorded tracks. well lets just say...., FORGET IT. after extensive testing recently with my production environment. its a waste of time. no track after track 1 is spoken as it cannot navigate further or see the interface.. I set up a full 16 channel midi 8 channel audio project for a rundown test and I couldn't edit a track nor get info on each channel.
the only way around this for recording tracks is to get a midi control surface with faders, controller pots and more.
navigating the sound pallette for each software track can be done but it is sluggish at times and is a little irritating but none the less its navigateable
master track issue. not exactly the best function going and not really editable. more effects support, true mastering tools etc would be a good idea.
Sorry to rain on people's days here but to be honest after having taken some time and some recent tests. forget garage band. I am doing some work at present which I will be revealing soon. cant say anything just yet but if you're from mac visionaries and know me then you'll know my knowledge of the audio recording software market.
if you relally need my help with garage band and want a direct tutorial then contact me on skype at lewisjbrock. I will be happy to support you as best as I can
lewis On 10 Mar 2008, at 16:45, David Poehlman wrote:
can you answer the questions on the list pleae? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Brock" <lewisjbrock@xxxxxxx> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:37 PM Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: regarding garage band hi there please contact me on skype regarding garage band. I am a professional musician and mac techie in the UK and have experience with programs like this. I will be offering audio tutorials very soon which can be available hopefully by blindcooltech. any help you need then please feel free to email me directly at lewisjbrock@xxxxxxx or skype me at lewisjbrock. please tell me who you are etc and I will instantly authorise you lewis brock On 10 Mar 2008, at 11:29, Ginny wrote:Well, I’ve been one of those folks who has spent lots of time in one- to-one training at the Apple store and then coming home to try to make some sense of what we as visually impaired users can actually accomplish with garage band. Here are a few of the problems I’ve uncovered. Please let me know if there are work-arounds for these problems, because if there are, then we should definitely put our heads together and come up with a guide for VO users. The track listing is not accessible. I can record a track, and then I can record a new track, but I can’t then go and select one of those tracks and edit it because I can’t access a track list. 2. The list of provided instruments isn’t labeled. I think it would be possible to memorize where each instrument list is, but then when you click on the main instrument, you have to select categories within that instrument which are also not accessible. Once you can actually get to a list of instruments—say, jazz bass, you can read through the various names of the jazz bass sound options. However, getting to that point is incredibly challenging. I can’t figure out a way to drag and drop the provided instruments or loops into a track…I can only listen to their samples. There doesn’t seem to be a way to edit individual tracks. I’d love to know if you guys have found work-arounds for these issues, because if garage band’s not quite accessible, I’m going to have to resort to Cakewalk. <sad sigh>Lewis Brock Totally Blind musician and composer of 21st century music PHONE: +44 07857 352828 E-MAIL: lewisjbrock@xxxxxxx MSN: lewis.brock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx SKYPE: lewisjbrockClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Lewis Brock Totally Blind musician and composer of 21st century music PHONE: +44 07857 352828 E-MAIL: lewisjbrock@xxxxxxx MSN: lewis.brock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx SKYPE: lewisjbrock
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