If there is some technical resistence to a product MS, Apple or Linux it will not fly. I use linux, ms and apple in my work as I’m supporting all 3 environments at work. Most designs I do will include FOSS software as they are the best out there. As for the OS I would stick with the one that is best pleasing to work with and in a church env that does not cost extra.

Kevin

I have not really used it, certainly not for any finished product or large scale, but it seems to me very similar to Mac’s Garage Band (which I have only really glanced at too).

‘Devilishly simple’, seems quite true. You select an instrument, with its nice little icon- just in case you don’t know what, for instance, a drum looks like. Lots of things are then set up and ready to go. Compare that to many multi-track editors, and you have to select a channel, assign an audio input to it, rename it, adjust the velocity and so on.

I think it would be especially good for beginners to multi-track recording, those who are not too confident with computers, and possibly young people. The interface has a friendly, non-threatening feel, and yet the software is pretty capable, if lacking some of the more advanced features of some alternatives.

Hopefully this info is useful.

One thing they could do – which I vaguely recall (I think) MS doing to ease the transition pains of Displaywrite users was to have a “make my menus appear like XYZ app”.

Then everytime you used a command native to the ‘other’ app Word would say “did you know you can do this by doing ABC”.

But, still – a nice find and I’ll certainly use some of those.