Enhanced, for your pleasure.

I’ve been using Apple’s Garageband for quite awhile now, but never really took notice of this feature before: “Enhance Tuning”.  It’s semi-hidden, and if I was one to read documentation I’m sure I would’ve come across it sooner.  It can correct slight abnormalities in your guitaring or singing, for example – without the need for expensive studio-grade plugins like Auto-Tune.  While it certainly isn’t as robust in controls as Auto-Tune, it can get the job done if you are “pretty close”

Create a new track – a “Real Instrument” track.  You can do your recording, and examine the audio track.  On the left you should see sliders for Pitch, Enhance Tuning and Enhance Timing.  [..]

The cold is beginning to let up, and almost immediately the calendar losing empty space.  Monday is the bar-with-friends evening.  Tuesdays is racquetball (rocketball), Wednesdays is rollerblading at the Metrodome, Thursdays is rocketball again, and Friday is the only week day where there is nothing in particular planned.  I guess that is flight night, or the night where I just waste gas driving all over the metro all evening.  If 93 octane is my combustible heroin, cars are our big needles. This 300-hp affront to all that is good and decent and respectable, this angry piece of rubber and aluminum turns gasoline directly into moments of teary bliss. (~Dan Neil) [..]