Daniel Maclean

Great shot of a friend of mine playing guitar with a well used blue pick.

Garageband the awesome software from Apple has yet to disappointment me. After playing around with it for over a month and understanding most of the features I thought it was about time to try and publish something on the blog and see how easy/difficult it would be. What was the result? Well depends on how you look at it. Firstly there doesn't appear to be a straight up option for exporting to Youtube, but in all honesty this isn't surprising as it's not a popular form of music distribution. My method was to export my work in Garageband and import it into iMovie . This allowed me to add the image (which I took myself and edited in Aperture ) and combine it with a 30 second preview of the track that i'm working on. All in all, it was a pretty painless process as iMovie also allows straight up exporting to Youtube. Took me around 10 minutes including encoding time (both Garageband & iMovie) and uploading time to complete this, which isn't that bad :-) Abou...

Here's something I ended up playing by mistake today. I kinda like this, so i'm gonna work on it and see what I can come up with. http://www.mediamax.com/danielmaclean/Hosted/danielmaclean-jazz1.ogg