Quote Originally Posted by Troy
Last friday I got an upgrade for my Mac and it came with this new program called Garage Band. It's like a baby Pro Tools. Thousands of riffs and thousands of instrument sounds, all interchangabe and all editable. You can take any riff and move any idividual notes anywhere on the scale, change it's intensity and add and delete them. You can then add any timbre attributes to it and loop it or fade it to double it . . . anything. This editability pushes this way past the realm of being a toy. You can build a song with up to 64 tracks. Plus you can interface instruments if you can get them plugged in via USB. I couldn't keep my hands off of it over the holiday weekend.

For a guy like me with no instrumental ability, but with all kinds of melodic weirdness rattling around in his head, this program is truly a revelation. Overwhelming.
That sounds a lot like ACID style, where you pick from any of thousands of loops of all manner of instruments and drop them into your own mulitracked timeframe... you then can edit them in any number of ways. It's indeed a blast to play with (you Mac guys just discovering this? LOL!)

But I have another related thread I'll tell ya about later in the week. Prepare to have yer head REALLY blown!