Are five minute compositions worth anything?
[ Posted by Dan on January 26, 2004 | 3 Comments ]

I was at the Apple Store (in meatspace, not online) and was tooling around with GarageBand on a dual proc 1.8gz G5. Loading loops was taking longer on that machine than my G4, so I thought that was weird, but even more weird, and kind of amusing was that Terminal was, in a way, disabled on the machine. They had stuffed the file into a password protected archive which made it hard for me to scp my GarageBand file to my host (instead of being evil and rf -rm'ing the filesystem in Terminal).

I had been noodling around in GarageBand for about 5 minutes and came up with a set of loops and arrangement I liked and wanted to keep the file, so I just downloaded Transmit, connected to the host, uploaded the .band file, disconnected, cleared my connection from the 'recent connections' list, trashed the app and the .band file and walked away (after setting the music to play in a loop on the machine). It's WAY too easy.

 

		So when do we get to hear some original Dan tunes? -Posted by JC on January 26, 2004 05:33 PM

		Soon I think. I've been toying with the idea of producing an EP and then releasing the mp3s and the all of the source files under the Creative Commons lisence. -Posted by Dan on January 27, 2004 09:57 AM

		It *sounds* like that's FileFault - doesn't FV basically create an encrypted disk copy of your home directory? -Posted by Quinn on January 28, 2004 05:33 PM

Comment posting has been turned off because I don't have enough time and will to deal with the constant comment spamming. I'm very sorry and will fix this sometime soon (soon = before 2004 ends).