Dread Bass Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 ok i just got my self a used mac and upgraded it to osx and got myself a m audio oxygen8 v2 keyboard. I want to get garageband but my mac only has a cd drive so i vant just buy ilife as it comes on a dvd. Any ideas? thanks Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaphappygarry Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Hey Dude, Buy an external firewire dvd drive? then instal iLife '07 G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Bass Posted August 19, 2007 Author Share Posted August 19, 2007 yeah thats what i was thinking but i have spent a small fortune already on this project and i am trying to keep costs low. I have the dvd for ilife 4 do you think there is any way to copy it from a dvd to a cd on my friends mac? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaphappygarry Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Nope DVD's hold 4.5gb ish CD'd hold 500mb ish What you are trying to do is fit a whale into a tuna can. G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaphappygarry Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Hang on, can you not hook both macs up and drag and drop garage band from the applications menu's on your mates mac to yours? G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Bass Posted August 19, 2007 Author Share Posted August 19, 2007 that might work yeah. Plus on the dvd there is itunes, iphoto, imovie, idvd and garageband so it wont be that big but your probably right it will still be too big but hooking them up that could work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redroque Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 [quote name='slaphappygarry' post='47392' date='Aug 19 2007, 02:44 PM']can you not hook both macs up and drag and drop garage band from the applications menu's on your mates mac to yours?[/quote] Hook them up using a firewire cable and then boot up your mates mac in target mode (start up pressing t). Think that's right but do check apple faq's first! max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton119 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Alternatively you could attach an ethernet cable between them and turn on file sharing on the computer with the program to copy. Then connect to it from your computer and drag it across. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueslemac Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 My question is not related to any of this, but I thought it would make sense to continue instead of starting a completely fresh thread. Anyway, I've just invested in a MacBook and it's come with Garage Band loaded. I recorded rehearsal on my Tascam as usual and have managed to import the three-hour recording into Garage Band. Now, how on earth do I split each individual song so I can email them to the others? (Come to that, where's the "delete" key on the laptop keyboard?!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booooooom Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 (edited) Move the curser to a point between songs then use the 'split' command (edit menu). Copy the trimmed song into a new Garageband file, save/export to itunes then distribute. AFAIK all keyboards locate the 'delete' key right above the 'return' key. Certainly all of the macs that I own or have owned do. Edited November 30, 2011 by Booooooom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueslemac Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Thanks for that I'll try it out. The key you've described is the "backspace" key which deletes the text to the left of the cursor. I was looking for one that deletes to the right (e.g. from the cursor to the end of the sentence. At the moment I have to move the cursor to the end and then gobble up the unwonted copy). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booooooom Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Sorry yeh, you'd need an extended keyboard for that. An alternative is to put the cursor in the right place, hold down the shift key while tapping the right cursor key to highlight to text to be deleted then use the backspace key. Holding the shift and alt key together will highlight text a word at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveO Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 [quote name='Booooooom' timestamp='1322662625' post='1454095'] Sorry yeh, you'd need an extended keyboard for that... [/quote] On a macbook, the 'Fn' key + backspace = Delete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 [quote name='Jacqueslemac' timestamp='1322657031' post='1453987'] (Come to that, where's the "delete" key on the laptop keyboard?!) [/quote] Back delete is above the return key. Forward delete is fn+back delete HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacqueslemac Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 There must be a simpler way of just splicing imported MP3s into smaller parts. I used to have Goldwave on my PC. It was free and basic and I could highlight sections and save them straight into the folder in a few seconds. So far, Garage Band is taking about fifteen minutes per track and the raw track now has hours of silence where I've deleted sections. Is there a simpler way to use it for really basic functions? None of the terms I've typed into "help" have come up with anything remotely relevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booooooom Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Can't you just record songs separately? We record our rehearsals (not necessarily every song) on a zoom h2 so just start it for each song which creates a new file each time. If we do leave it running I split/trim the files on the h2 itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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