Recording music on an iMac

danb

Hi, has anyone got any recommendations in terms of software for recording music on an iMac. I am a guitarist and have read good reviews about AmpliTube - has anyone had experience using it? Also is it worth getting Logic or is GarageBand good enough. By the way I have no previous experiences of recording music or playing music on a computer, just trying to find out where I should start.

Cheers,

Dan.

zAbbo

Garageband is a goot starting point, relatively easy to use.

Gordon

You'll probably need an Mbox to get the audio into the Mac first won't you?

Thraktor

Nope, you can just use the Mac's built in mic socket while you're starting out. My advice would be to play around with GarageBand (with a relatively cheap microphone) until you get a good feel for it, then once you know what you're doing, start to splash out on more expensive software and hardware if you feel you need it. It pointless spending big bucks on expensive software or external sound cards at this point if you have little idea how to make the most out of them, and GarageBand's a fairly useful program for people with no previous recording experience, so I'd say you stick with that until you start to find it limiting, and then come back to us.

Gordon

I could have sworn a mate of mine with the dome shaped iMac didn't have an audio-in jack, either that or it was a strange jack smaller than 1/4 inch. What type of mic socket does the iMac have now?

SouperComputer

Audacity: FREE!

ZENER

SouperComputer wrote:

Audacity: FREE!

Only because they wouldn't have the nerve to charge for it !!!

Cheapest option for Macs with no audio in is an iMic. You can then connect a small mixing desk like this to it.

ZEN

tomMK1

we recorded a single (got to no 18 Irish charts last autumn) on an imac in my shed. its an old 600mhz iMac - desk out connected straight to the soundin and used deck 2 for recording.

worked a treat ..plus we've just finished the second single on it.

rom

Logic and garageband are the same. garageband uses tha same engine just it has less features so if its enough for you there is no reason to get buggy logic for what you want.