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...plugging in a keyboard, microphone or guitar. Apple is selling a $99 keyboard that plugs directly into the computer via a USB connection, and a $149 amp for guitar, bass, microphone and keyboards with MIDI connections. There are 50 software instruments in GarageBand and an additional 100 in Jam Pack. You can make your guitar seem as if it's coming through a vintage '60s amp, or your keyboard sound like a surprisingly realistic steel guitar. Select a sound and you're ready to hit the Record button. And if you flub the recording, even with the built-in metronome...
...simplest level, GarageBand lets you lay down loopsprerecorded short riffs by drums, bass, piano and so on. There are 1,000 loops to choose from on the basic software and 2,000 more on the $99 add-on, Jam Pack. Here's the clever bit: the loops are arranged not just by instrument but also under mood-based headings like "Relaxed," "Intense," "Cheerful" and so on. Click and drag your loops into the score, and they become interactive. You can stretch and splice them like lumps of Play-Doh. In just 10 minutes I found I could intuitively assemble...
...next one, the drummer Cliff (Elisha Cook Jr.), has a yen for hot jazz, fast women and funny cigarettes. Carol catches his wild eye with a perfunctory kiss or two and the promise that ?I?m a hep kitten!? In a jam session with other sweating, hopped-up jazzmen - the film?s most famous scene - Cliff beats the skins in a masturbatory delirium. She accompanies him back to his seedy apartment, gives him another kiss and a brief lap-sit and ankles when he admits he was paid...
...Harvard plays the same way it did last Saturday against the Minutemen, bringing the jam early and often, maybe Mazzoleni won’t have to explain his team’s collapses this time around...
Junior captain Jason Norman had put the Crimson ahead by one with a steal and a reverse jam with 2:03 to play in overtime before Rider center Steve Castleberry carved out inside position and took the lead back with a layup twenty seconds later...