Macworld Secrets: Of Macs and MIDI

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Of Macs And MIDI

Of Macs And MIDI 06/23/2004 01:31 AM
We'll provide some background and show you how to use MIDI files to expand GarageBand's repertoire. By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Macworld secrets: Mac 911

Macworld secrets: Mac 911 12/13/2003 03:43 AM
Do you rue the range of your Graphite Base Station, seek softer cell-phone ring tones, find PC viruses vexing, or loathe the limitations of your iTunes music library? There's no need to feel hemmed in by transitory travails when help is at hand. This month's Mac 911 gives you a beneficial boost over each of these barriers.

Macworld secrets: Mac OS X Hints

Macworld secrets: Mac OS X Hints 12/02/2003 12:29 AM
Take a look at some ways to see more in Finder windows, tweak your iChat messages so they contain multiple lines, print pages to PDF, assign multiple genres to iTunes tracks, know how much is in your Trash, take advantage of Unix's redirection command, train Mail only once, and more.

Macworld Secrets Create: What's in a
Font?

Macworld Secrets Create: What's in a
Font? 04/10/2004 02:29 AM
Gone are the days when you knew what you were getting when you bought a font -- back when fonts could hold about 225 characters (PostScript Type 1s, for example). Now we're in the era of OpenType fonts, which can contain tens of thousands of characters and even do tricks with these characters, such as automatically substituting one for another.

Macworld Secrets: Colorful Photoshop

Macworld Secrets: Colorful Photoshop 07/07/2004 11:03 AM
Adobe Photoshop CS is possibly the best program for manipulating digital photographs. But it's also a capable program for coloring scanned artwork. This is especially valuable because it's easier to draw on paper, with a pencil or a pen, than it is to sketch on screen, if only because you can see an entire piece of paper without zooming or panning. And it can be easier to add colors in Photoshop than it is to hassle with conventional paints or assemble fussy mechanicals. I'll show you how to apply color to scanned line art in Photoshop. Throughout this process, you won't harm a single stroke in the original drawing. It really is the best of all worlds.

Macworld Secrets Help Desk: Mac OS X
Hints

Macworld Secrets Help Desk: Mac OS X
Hints 04/13/2004 03:06 AM
Learn a bit more about the Unix side of OS X, including hints on using Terminal to convert manuals to PostScript, copy information to the Clipboard, convert line breaks in text files, identify what's in a given file, and open the current directory folder i

Macworld Secrets: Playing Live

Macworld Secrets: Playing Live 02/10/2004 02:43 AM

Macworld Secrets: Animate Your World

Macworld Secrets: Animate Your World 02/10/2004 02:43 AM

Macworld Secrets: .Mac Travel Tips

Macworld Secrets: .Mac Travel Tips 06/29/2004 10:56 AM
Apple's .Mac subscription service offers a wide array of functions for Mac OS X users, from an e-mail account and the easiest Web-based photo-sharing around to virus busters, backup software, and server space for storing your files. But many people don't realize just how much they can do with that $99 subscription. A lot of .Mac's functions are hidden in its Web site, so subscribers must dig to discover them all. The .Mac service can even keep you organized when you're between computers, and those computers don't have to be Macs. Whether you're traveling across the world or across town, .Mac can help keep your contacts, e-mail, calendars, and files accessible, but not too accessible, without much planning.

Macworld Secrets: Animatics in Final Cut
Pro 4

Macworld Secrets: Animatics in Final Cut
Pro 4 12/22/2003 05:17 PM
Animatics are animated storyboards -- usually set to music, with sound effects and temporary dialogue -- that professional filmmakers, commercial agencies, and special-effects artists use to visualize the look and tempo of their projects. To create your own animatic, all you need is a set of storyboard drawings, a batch-capable scanner, and a Mac equipped with Apple's $999 Final Cut Pro 4. With Final Cut Pro 4's RT Extreme feature, you can preview the animatic in real time as you build it. And when you're finished, you can output the animatic from Final Cut Pro 4 to tape, DVD, or a Web site.

Macworld secrets: Hands on: Easy Mac
maintenance

Macworld secrets: Hands on: Easy Mac
maintenance 12/15/2003 05:47 PM
Just like your car, your Mac needs routine maintenance in order to run smoothly. Unlike your car, your Mac can perform some of this maintenance on its own. Two important tasks to perform regularly are Disk Utility's Repair Permissions and OS X's Unix maintenance scripts.

Macworld Secrets: Mobile Mac Laptop
Lockdown

Macworld Secrets: Mobile Mac Laptop
Lockdown 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
Laptop owners adore PowerBooks and iBooks for their snazzy looks, light weight, and excellent resale value. Unfortunately, thieves like them for the very same reasons. And the person who steals your laptop not only nabs your hardware but also may gain access to financial records, corporate data, credit card numbers, and other sensitive information. There are ways to protect your computer and your data. Whether you lash down your laptop with steel cables or apply military-grade data encryption across your hard drive, protecting your laptop takes some effort -- but it may be easier than you expect.

Macworld Secrets Geek Factor: I Spy with
iSight

Macworld Secrets Geek Factor: I Spy with
iSight 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
In several recent incidents, thieves have stolen equipment worth thousands of dollars from Brigham Young University. The staff of one department took matters into their own hands and set up a surveillance camera. The perpetrators were promptly recorded and arrested. And no high-end, expensive equipment was necessary -- just Apple's $150 iSight camera and a $20 software program called EvoCam.

Macworld Secrets: Mobile Mac Highway
Fidelity

Macworld Secrets: Mobile Mac Highway
Fidelity 06/18/2004 09:29 AM
Whether you're commuting to work or headingacross country, nothing beats music for passing the time. Until a few years ago, audio CDs were the only way to get digital sound in your car. But now, thanks to portable audio players, satellite radios, and MP3-compatible CD gear, it's easier than ever to listen to clean, digital music on the road (see "MP3s for the Road” for tips on burning MP3 discs). For a fee, satellite radio receivers let you tap into 24-7 digital programming. If you'd rather listen to your own tunes and playlists -- and many more songs than a CD can hold -- an iPod is the way to go. Mobile installations range from basic dashboard mounts to stealthy setups that conceal the iPod and let you control it remotely. There's a system for just about any car.

Macworld Secrets Digital Hub: Give
iMovie New Powers

Macworld Secrets Digital Hub: Give
iMovie New Powers 04/24/2004 03:40 AM
Apple's iMovie 4 includes dozens of visual effects,scene transitions, and title formats. Used tastefully and sparingly, these extras add finesse to a movie and lend a professional touch. But some projects require something a little more creative than what iMovie's built-in tools can provide.

intelliScore Polyphonic 6.1 WAV to MIDI,
MP3 to MIDI Converter Released

intelliScore Polyphonic 6.1 WAV to MIDI,
MP3 to MIDI Converter Released 07/01/2004 02:17 AM
IntelliScore is a WAV to MIDI, MP3 to MIDI, CD to MIDI converter for live performance, making MID files, transcribing music, and finding chord names from polyphonic WAVE and MP3 files [PRWEB Jul 1, 2004]

Macworld: Macworld: New technology from
Runtime Revolution

Macworld: Macworld: New technology from
Runtime Revolution 01/06/2004 04:25 AM
"We're constantly developing new features for Revolution, to meet our developers' needs for creating robust applications with up-to-the-minute functionality," said Kevin Miller, CEO of Runtime Revolution. "Now, we've started bringing our developers into the design cycle at the earliest possible stage."

Q-Midi 1.14

Q-Midi 1.14 04/16/2004 03:45 AM
A MIDI interface for the Q programming language.

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.06

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.06 07/27/2004 04:37 PM

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.05

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.05 07/27/2004 12:28 AM

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.04

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.04 07/21/2004 06:09 PM

New: Dent du Midi 1.0

New: Dent du Midi 1.0 03/23/2005 01:03 PM
Dent du Midi takes standard MIDI files and generates AIFF containers for each track, allowing them to be dropped into GarageBand for use as loops or entire tracks.

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.03

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.03 07/02/2004 04:39 PM

Dent du Midi 0.9

Dent du Midi 0.9 07/07/2004 10:42 PM
Converts standard MIDI files into Apple Loop Format files allowing them to be imported into GarageBand.

MIDI-Pitch-0.2

MIDI-Pitch-0.2 04/10/2005 08:47 PM

MIDI-Pitch-0.3

MIDI-Pitch-0.3 04/10/2005 08:47 PM

New: GB Midi Import 1.0

New: GB Midi Import 1.0 07/05/2004 11:24 AM
GB Midi Import imports MIDI information from standard MIDI files into GarageBand.

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.08

POE-Framework-MIDI-0.08 02/06/2005 01:17 AM

MIDI to Text .02

MIDI to Text .02 09/11/2004 12:04 AM
A script that converts a standard MIDI file to plain text.

Fibonacci MIDI

Fibonacci MIDI 04/14/2004 05:00 AM
If you play the Fibonacci Sequence through a MIDI engine, you get something eerily Philip-Glass-like. Link (Thanks Quinn!)

Midi Grasshopper 3.8

Midi Grasshopper 3.8 04/12/2004 04:51 PM
Midi and audio sequencing application.

Music & MIDI In Panther

Music & MIDI In Panther 10/29/2003 12:13 AM

Best Keyboard for MIDI / Piano

Best Keyboard for MIDI / Piano 01/10/2004 12:26 AM

Beta: Dent du Midi 0.1

Beta: Dent du Midi 0.1 01/28/2004 11:25 AM
Bery Rinaldo's Dent du Midi makes it possible to import MIDI files into GarageBand.

tiny midi sequencer

tiny midi sequencer 03/14/2003 02:53 AM
tinyseq 0.7.0r ,Triplet support

Update: Midi Grasshopper 3.8

Update: Midi Grasshopper 3.8 04/13/2004 10:04 AM
The MIDI sequencing application adds the ability to visually edit a sequence's tempo track, the ability to burn AIFF files directly to CD, and other changes.

Midi in/out/file processing

Midi in/out/file processing 07/25/2004 10:49 AM
Welcome

Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.9

Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.9 07/05/2004 03:59 PM
A MIDI track accompaniment generator.

USB MIDI Firmware Loaders

USB MIDI Firmware Loaders 04/15/2004 01:05 PM
MidiSport firmware loader 0.5 released
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MacMice GarageKey USB MIDI Keyboard

MacMice GarageKey USB MIDI Keyboard 07/30/2004 07:07 AM

Jack Campbell of MacMice has announced a new 37-key USB MIDI keyboard called 'GarageKey,' designed specifically for use with Apple iLife '04's GarageBand software. For $130, there are probably more full-featured Casios or Yahamas with MIDI output -- and really, MIDI output is pretty much MIDI output on something like this, although MIDI-over-USB is potentially more convenient for many -- but the GarageKey does have the benefit of being a decent size to fit on your desk.

I wonder, though, did MacMice really build the GarageKey as they say, or did they license it from another manufacturer? Because some people have been taking them to task lately for claiming to be the sole inventors of products that turn out to be rebrands. Nothing wrong with rebranding, mind you, but saying you built it might be stretching a bit.

Read - Pre-Order Page [MacMice]

GarageKey MIDI Keyboard now shipping

GarageKey MIDI Keyboard now shipping 12/22/2004 01:51 AM
MacMice today announced that its GarageKey USB-MIDI keyboard for GarageBand users, originally announced last July, is now shipping...

MIDI tutorial for GarageBand posted

MIDI tutorial for GarageBand posted 01/28/2004 09:15 AM
The folks at MacJams.com have posted "MIDI Basics for GarageBand Users," a tutorial discussing some of the basic answers to common questions about using MIIDI devices with Apple's new GarageBand music software...

MIDI Tutorial For GarageBand Users

MIDI Tutorial For GarageBand Users 01/28/2004 03:37 PM

Import MIDI Files Into GarageBand

Import MIDI Files Into GarageBand 01/27/2004 04:12 PM

Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 4

Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 4 02/05/2005 10:13 PM
Looking ahead to the next generation of MIDI music-making software, including Improv, Q-Midi and Csound.

Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 3

Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 3 12/19/2004 03:17 PM
An introduction to several Linux MIDI utilities, including JSynthLib, Midirgui and SynthEd.

Linux MIDI: a Brief History, Part 1

Linux MIDI: a Brief History, Part 1 09/13/2004 05:22 AM
An overview of the creation and evolution of MIDI, from early standalone equipment to an all-in-one computerized composition environment.

Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.8

Musical MIDI Accompaniment 0.8 06/24/2004 10:46 PM
A MIDI track accompaniment generator.

Roland MIDI Accordian

Roland MIDI Accordian 06/17/2005 06:13 PM

I just thought an accordion post would brighten my day a bit, so here goes. This super-sexy Lady of Spain machine uses physical modeling to simulate the look and feel of a real accordion, while adding a high-tech edge to your best Chicken Dance rendition. MIDI makes it digital, and the FR-7 even includes built-in speakers, so you can be a one-man polka band.

That said, please pop over the jump in order to see why you should NOT buy a mildly weird kid an accordion. While I do appreciate that my parents introduced me to music at an early age, if you are in a similar situation, please consider buying the little tyke a Stratocaster and a practice amp.

Product Page [Roland]

That's my sister next to me, but I wanted to spare her the horror.

Macworld Secrets: Of Macs and MIDI

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