music software // mac
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I second the Ableton Live recommendation. It's the best bet for a powerbook and super flexible..
I can get a 4+ track song recorded, arranged, and burned to cd within 30 minutes.
Definately check out the movies at the link provided earlier.
Also check out:
http://www.nativeinstruments.de/…
Native Instruments (NI): Reaktor is one of their more popular products (virtual synth / sequencer / mayhem creator).Generally NI stuff works really well with Ableton. But consumes gobbs of processor power. It can also run stand alone if all you want to do is experiment.
There is always Reason 3.0 by propellerheads (which tries to be an all in one music studio)
http://www.propellerheads.se/All of this stuff will does ok on a G4 powerbook, 1ghz with 1gb of ram....it craps out when you run too many soft-synths, but loop arrangement, midi, and basic multi-track audio recording works great.
An MBox with pro-tools LE
(http://www.digidesign.com/produ... generally is better at recording live instruments, but can also work in conjunction with Reason / Reaktor and Live. It also integrates well with a hardware (non portable) studio.