Show Notes: Episode 11


  • Vista UAC Tweaks
    Vista/food demo expert/ www.littlegeeks.com

    Get Tweak UAC from www.tweakuac.com. This let’s you run in silent mode.

    Access the UAC settings as follows:
    - Type Local Secuirty Policy in Start menu search
    - Click it when it appears to launch it
    - Click In Local Secuirty Policy click > Local Policy > Security Options > and scroll down to User Account Control
    - Change to password prompt by right clicking “Behavior of the elevation prompt for admin” and chooing Properties and then prompt for credentials.

    PRODUCTS SHOWN
    -Microsoft Windows Vista


  • Build your own GarageBand Loops
    LabRat, www.labrats.tv

    Apple’s GarageBand has a ton of loops included when you open up the program, but when you do nothing but use the standard loops, everything starts to sound the same. Thankfully, you can use the many software instruments built into GarageBand as the start of your very own loops and original songs.

    Inside GarageBand, you have the ability to build up a track using nothing but the loops that come with GarageBand, but you can also make your own music from scratch if you choose, using one of the software instruments included with the program. Simply create a new track, use the right-hand pane to choose the type of software instrument you want to use, and then you’re ready to start. If you have a MIDI keyboard hooked up to the computer, you can use it to key in your new notes, but you can also key in notes using the computer keyboard — just hit Apple-shift-K to bring up the virtual keyboard, which will show you which keys on your QWERTY keyboard map to which notes.

    Once you’ve recorded a sequence of notes, you can edit the notes. Double-click the track on the upper portion of the screen, and the notes themselves will appear on the bottom half of the screen. You can move them to different places in the timeline, change the pitch, and even shorten and lengthen the notes. If you don’t want to spend a lot of time manually adjusting, you can just click the Align button on the left-hand side, but make sure you adjust your scale to a fine enough level to avoid having your music sound to blocky or robotic.

    Chances are you’ll have recorded more than you need for a single loop, but you can isolate the section you want by positioning your time indicator to the place where you want the loop to begin (and you can get to the exact point by adjusting the scale of the timeline to a finer level using the slider on the left), and choosing the Split option from the Track menu - this will create a break in the loops, and you can delete portions on either side of that break. (Do the same thing at the endpoint of your loop, too, obviously.)

    Then, once you have the section isolated and matched to the beat (using the editing tools below), you go up into your menu system and choose “Add to Loop Library”. It’ll then give you the ability to describe the loop a bit before adding it to your library for future use.