Making Music with OS X

Installment 18 gives you the lowdown on where exactly the podcast and blog have been for the last few months, includes a review the very cool Apogee Duet audio interface and, as usual, some great free music software for OS X.

New Ableton Live video course/contest for a free month pass to HowAudio.com, Reason 4 review, more free loops from www.BeatHive.com, new software releases including WireTap Studio, AudioCodex Beta and Digidesign's new virtual amp plug-in "Eleven."

Installment 16 includes free loops from www.BeatHive.com, the return of the Rax Audio Unit host program, Logic Express and Logic Studio 8, the Luxonix LFX-1310 and a review of the Belkin TuneTalk iPod recording device.

Installment 15 includes a review of GarageBand 08, information on SoundSnap.com, HowAudio.com and the new software releases Structure Free from Digidesign and Live 6 LE from Ableton.

Episode 14 features the excellent loop site www.BeatHive.com, free Apple Loops and free Acid Loops, iLife 08 and GarageBand 08 and the new Twisted Wave audio editing program for OS X

Episode 13 features info on a new free digital audio book called "Digital Audio - DIY Now!," updates to AudioFinder and the Sound Toys plug-ins, Pianoteq 2.1 (now in AU and RTAS), the free Ticky Clav and Cheeze Machine instruments from Big Tick Audio Software and a new media player for OS X called Machine Head.

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Digital Audio - DIY now!

Chris Caulder

Michael W. Dean

AudioFinder

SoundToys

Pianoteq

Ticky Clav and Cheeze Machine

Big Tick Audio Software

Machine Head

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This installment covers Virtual Instruments Magazine, TapeOp Magazine, SoundStudio 3 audio editing software, The freeware Levelator application and the free SoundMagic Spectral Audio Units Plug-ins.

Installment 11 of MMwOSX. This episode covers Reason 4, the Battery 3.02 update and new kits, Audio Hijack Pro 2.7.3 and eSession.com

This week's installment covers using various audio file formats and file conversion with iTunes and other audio applications, MMwOSX's addition to the excellent Home Recording Network and my recent experiences with upgrading the RAM in my home studio's G5.

This week's episode covers some Internet resources for free audio and video content, including www.sampleswap.org and www.archive.org, finishes up my two-part Focus On GarageBand series and has the first Making Music with OS X listener/reader contest for a free copy of the book Mastering Digital Audio Production.

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This week's episode covers some of the recent changes, updates and upgrades to some of the OS X audio programs and plug-ins I covered in my book, starts a two-part series on GarageBand resources and tips and features a review of Digidesign's Strike virtual drum plug-in.

This week's installment includes a recap of episode one's introduction, more relentless book promotion, my recent experiences with virtual amplification and introduces a new semi-regular feature called the Cheap Software Spotlight, this time focusing on the Lounge Lizard Session electric piano.

This week's installment covers some methods and resources for creating original Apple Loops, the many different options available for virtual drum tracks in OS X, including virtual drum machines, virtual drum samplers and virtual drummers and some information and links related to the history of digital audio.

The week's episode covers Native Instruments Reaktor 5 program, suggestions for creating great sounding Apple Loop-based tracks and some great music software demos for OS X.

This week's installment covers remixing the new Nine Inch Nails song "Survivalism" in GarageBand 3, Recording your Mac's Text to Speech functionality with WireTap Pro, IcedAudio's AudioFinder 4.5 update and OS X Audio Resources on the World Wide Web.

Using two freeware virtual instruments, this weeks installment covers the basics of working with virtual synthesizers, including how to work with the most common parameters found on virtual synths - oscillators, filters, envelopes, LFOs and effects.

This week's episode covers two excellent free virtual samplers and lots of free plug-in effects for GarageBand, Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton Live or any OS X music recording program.

Introducing the Making Music with OS X Enhanced Podcast! This episode contains an introduction to the series and a discussion of the needed tools and software, then covers installing and using freeware virtual synthesizers in OS X.