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| Author | Konfabulator widget to check MacIdol | |
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 Posted: 03 Feb 2004 12:05 AM
I've created a Konfabulator widget called My MacIdol to check your Total Play count on MacIdol. 
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| Author | Oops!! Sorry to torture so many with my singing! | |
Fortyteen |
Posted: 03 Feb 2004 11:28 PM
Well! My U2 cover went thru the roof!! And it took my own stuff along for the ride. Thanks to all those who said nice things, and to all those who bagged the vocals - you were sooo right. I only put them there to prove it really was that song. I have removed them now. I am open to trying someone else's singing. I did this song to show off GB and prove it is not just a toy for tinkerers. I think I succeeded. But if you want to hear some decent music, get in and dig around MacIdol. Don't just listen to covers or else that's all we'll end up seeing here. Encourage the creative edge. Listen to more originals. {MESSAGE_MORE_POPUP}
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| Author | Gobsmacked! | |
Fortyteen |
Posted: 05 Feb 2004 06:26 AM
Wow! I never expected the U2 cover to be so popular. Thanks to all those who wrote me such good things about it and my own compositions. I hope it's inspired you to try and beat it, but with your own stuff. {MESSAGE_MORE_POPUP}
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| Author | Have added song info to U2 cover and Groove Minute | |
Fortyteen |
Posted: 05 Feb 2004 12:12 PM
Have added track info for these two songs. Hopefully it will give you some insight and inspiration. {MESSAGE_MORE_POPUP}
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| Author | Wired review - cooool! | |
Fortyteen |
Posted: 10 Feb 2004 04:50 AM
Wired eZine (www.wired.com - oops. sorry to Wired, I had this address wrong) have written an article about GarageBand which included a reference to my U2 cover as "...impressively awful...". I'm cool with that but am very disappointed they did not mention MacIdol as requested. Here is my response to them: Hi Leander Now that's a backhander and a half! I don't mind. As I've said elsewhere - everything is "wrong" about this arrangement (the bass line, the drum line, the guitar line, the tambourine line, the lead line, the dukketer-dukketer guitar line) yet it is instantly recognizable. This was an experiment to see if I could do a cover solely with standard GB loops. I succeeded, but my goal is what makes it both impressive and awful (you're lucky you didn't here the singing!). It is impressive because it does sound enough like the U2 song; it's awful because it sounds like a Karaoke version. The point of doing a cover in GB is because it forces limitations - and you learn a lot by working at the edge of those limitations. Again, this song only uses stock standard GB loops and no external recordings. With those limitations it was always going to be difficult. But it was worth it - even tho I'm tempted at times to do it right but that would mean recording most of the parts. {MESSAGE_MORE_POPUP}
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| Author | Welcome | |
Fortyteen |
Posted: 29 Jan 2004 02:19 PM
Heya! Welcome to my MacIdol site. Thanks to the guys here for putting together such an fantastic service to us wannabe rockstars! 
But a special special thanks to Steve and Apple for putting together the best piece of software ever for on the Mac. Hang on... make that on any OS!
Hope over time, I put enough up here that someone finds something they like!
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| Author | Don't just listen to me... | |
Fortyteen |
Posted: 10 Feb 2004 04:42 AM
Check out some of the other guys on here. A few of my favorites are: James Bachman Maggie Osterberg Ted Clark Nate Barham Tempest Ric Perrott Graeme Campbell Cockeyed iFingers The James Reed Network Brian Brumfield And also check out the new stuff appearing all the time. {MESSAGE_MORE_POPUP}
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