iMac G5 + Garaband, a whole bunch of questions Options

[Premonition]

Hi
I just bought an imac G5. I am still very much used to windows. And there i had a lot of awesome software that i had painstakingly taken months to master. Its all gone now....

To my surpirse i saw a program called garageband in my comp. And seeing the Demos that came, i was pretty happy with the sound of the programmed drums.

My question is....
- How to program drums? My songs usually go in a lot of time signatures and tempo shifts. Does garage band suppot all this?
There seems to be one way that i figured out....but honestly ihop ethis is not the only way to program drums.
What i did was....press the record button...and then keep clicking keys on the on-screen piano....and then go to the edit mode and reorganisee the notes, cos i invariably played them all wrong.

now seriously, there should be a way to program drums by directly pressing the corresponding notes in the edit mode, as in cackewalk home studio pro.
Can someone please tell me whether i can program drums like this? Cos the method i am using is terrible, and most time consuming.

Besides, what i used to do earlier with windows as my os was, create all the drum lines, using a wav trigger software like leaf drums and then arrange them in tracks in cooleditpro, and then record the guitars etc etc etc. This way when theres a change in time signature, all i have to do is create a separate wav fole for that signature and place it sequentially in cool edit.

Can garage band fulfill all these requirements? If not? what additiional software "multitracking" like cooledit should i use here?

If cool edit has Mac support, can someone who knows please gove me a link??

Thanks!!
I hope i made a right decision purchasing the Mac G5 as i herad its much much better than others for recording purposes.

[justd]

Hi Pre,

garageband is just a beginner software and you only can use apple loops for garageband. i would say, first have a look in Mac help. Garage ist very easy to handle and you can record guitars as well as voices or what you like, but the sound isn't to specific, softly speaking. If you like to do recording professionell you have to spend money for better software like emagic (nowadays logic also by apple) or protools (for studio equip) or cubase by steinberg.
But anyway have a lot of fun with your new G5

justd. [FONT=Times][SIZE=7][COLOR=blue]sfxmusic@lycosxxl.de