I finally got iLife today (=yesterday), mostly just because of GarageBand. It’s supposed to work with my Oxygen8 USB keyboard though I haven’t hooked that up yet.  I’m trying to figure out the software a little more first… is it a multitrack recorder or an Acid clone or both?  It’s a little weird, I’m so used to working with Harmony Assistant.  This is different in some ways and similar in others… HA uses a sheet-music model to let you do your composing, this doesn’t.  Haven’t played with it enough to know whether that’s a good thing or not.  But even if it helps me more than HA does, it still all comes down to good songwriting!  You could noodle around with loops all day but it ain’t nothin’ until it’s a proper song, a good song you could actually play live in any number of instrumental scenarios.  Not to dismiss cut-up and collage-type artists but that’s just where my own priorities lie as a music-maker… I don’t ever wanna be stuck in a position where I can’t play a certain song because I don’t have my computer with me.