GarARGH Band

So I finally found where you turn on a Real Instrument's monitor. First, Show Track Info to get the the side panel where you edit the effects and shit. Now click the Browse tab, not the Edit tab. What the hell is it doing there? Maybe it helps if you never edit your sounds, but if you do, would you think of going back to a place named Browse in order to change something that affects the instrument? I didn't. Now if they'd just make it so you can add Real Instruments fx to new Guitar instruments. I'd like to be able to use some of the more high tech filters on Guitar tracks, like the parametric EQ or even a compressor (not a stomp box type compressor).

So I got vocals recorded today; lead, 1 harmony on the verses and bridges, and 4–part harmony "ah"s in the guitar solo section (although some of them sound more like "ooo"s). That's the first time I can remember ever singing anything but the harmonies on that song. Weird. Also replaced a couple drum parts that weren't up to snuff.

Oh, I also noticed that when I came back from eating supper and turned the power strip back on that powers the stereo and USB audio interface, the USB LED kept blinking on it and I couldn't get a signal from it to the computer. I quit Garage Band, powered the interface off and on, then launched GB again. It then worked. I guess software doesn't like to lose its hardware devices and then can't get them back when they're turned on again.

Holy crap, I can't imagine how much shit we would've recorded back in the day if we had this digital cut & paste on a computer stuff. Our technology then was bouncing back and forth between 2 stereo tape decks. Maybe a 4–track if we knew somebody that had one or rented one for a few days. Even with the 4–track, it was pretty hard to punch in in the middle of the song. To think of how many complete takes we had to do just because there was a little problem somewhere in the song. Who knows, maybe The Papergirl From Hell would've had a 17–minute middle section with strings and French horns and 6 different time signatures. But it wouldn't have been nearly as funny, not the end product nor the dozens and dozens of takes it took to get through it all without laughing. It also would've stayed in pitch, rather than getting a little lower every time we swapped the tapes between decks.