my long awaited powerbook turned up during the week and so far it has more than lived up to its expectations. One thing I was particulalrly keen to try out was using it as a digital multitrack, something that all my previous hardware has never been up to. I opened garageband, I dragged and dropped a few drumloops in then plugged my bass in, followed by my guitar.

This is a 30 second excerpt of the epic jam that I then proceeded to have with myself.

i'm pretty chuffed with the result, considering that the guitars were plugged straight* into the line in socket on the powerbook - all the effects and amp simulation are done with garageband. The bass is distorted on purpose - i'm trying to break from my old sound and am now going for ROCK by using a plectrum and a simulated overdriven amp. hurrah I now have a fully portable portastudio - it even runs on batteries :-)

*OK they were plugged in via a digitech multi-effects unit, but it was set to "bypass" and only for the sake of using it as a 1/4 inch 1/8 inch jack adapter.