Sun, 29 Jan 2006
Mac Music
Keith Gemmell, Making Music on the Apple Mac,
PC Publishing
This slim book is a primer on how to get making music on Macs.
As such it's a bit difficult to criticize on the basis of not going
into enough detail in various sections. It looks at the various
Macs available now, looks at the interfaces and software (including
the GarageBand which comes with all Macs) and looks at ways of
working.
What it also does is think pretty much inside the box. What
about ported Linux apps? What about Supercollider, Pd, Max, and
suchlike? What about ... well, the list goes on, and as I said
before it's a bit unfair.
So, this is for someone who wants to get going at making music
but, for the moment at least, isn't very ambitious in an aesthetic
or technical sense. The more ambitious will then have to read elsewhere.
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