Apple's Desire

About a year ago I had my first glance at the Mac World with the infamous iPod, it was new, radical and portable, 10GB of musical bliss; I lost my first iPod in a flood. Now I have a new one, 20GB and clickwheel thingy and can see many of my guitar pics in it (and also of my girlfriend). I have this friend who has guided me through the way of learning the mac world. Four months ago I bought my first Mac computer, a rough and hardworking iBook G4. The first thing I used in it was, off course, Garage Band, a software so powerful and easy to use that you'll find yourself making songs in less than you can take your guitar out of the case.

I got me an iControl, a device crafted by M-Audio, it is a piece of hardware that works as an interface for Garage Band, exclusively. It has all of the controls you see in the Garage Band display and the response is quick and efficient. If you know how to use Band, you already know how to use iControl. Most important, I order this product from Music-123 in Indiana and I had it in my hands and plugged to the computer in 5 days, cool, eh? The iControl is built with thought bend to the musicians alredy using or going to use Band in a live setup, and also at home, it makes things so much more simple, and allows you to do things that you would not be able to do with a mouse. It is class compliant, MIDI accesible and stuff. It is very light, you won't notice you are carrying the thing. I'm glad i bought it and I'm lookinf forward to buy some more devices and software from M-Audio. In a few words, it was designed by some serious geek out there who digs Garage Band. I thank such a geek!