Making Music With A New Ibook, Looking for setup help Options

[musicteacher]

I am a public school music teacher who is thinking about getting a new iBook to use as a portable music making tool. Here's what I would like to do with it:

1. Sequence backing tracks in various musical styles for my students to play along with in class. I'd want to burn these backing tracks onto cd and bring them into the classroom so my kids can jam to a calypso-style "This Land Is Your Land" or whatever. What would be good software to do this with an iBook?

2. Record my own music and my students music either live or track by track - what is the best way to get sound into an iBook?

3. Begin to explore the world of software synths. Which ones are easy to use and can interact well with the software/hardware used for the above two items?

I hope that's clear enough. I'd appreciate any suggestions. If there's anyone answering who lives in the NYC area and can help me in person with this I'd be really grateful. Thank you for supporting public education.

[Presto]

I'm no expert but have an ibook600 with 384 Ram, and use it with an Mbox (two I/O - ins an outs) and ProTools LE and therefore OS9 for the mo. When my apps want OSX I'll give it them but under OS9 they work well so I don't care. If you need OS9, before you buy a new computer, ask if the OS9 install CD comes with it.

I only do audio so for me the mics are very important. I'm waiting (impatiently) for my new DPA 4066 miniature mic and headband to arrive. Then I'll be able to consider my recording setup portable. I would say that being able to move your mic(s) and place them wherever you want, easily, is very important. Have a look at the DPAmicrophones instrument kit.

An ibook is quite enough in my opinion, IF you don't use so many tracks you need a video projector to see half of them AND if you don't have to abuse plugin use to hide bad quality recording. OK, if you want to go into recording/mixing etc for clients as a full time job, then the ibook would have limitations.

Point of view of a littlie who doesn't use midi

Ce message a été modifié par Presto - jeu. 9 janv. 2003, 17:14.