by antbrown on September 25, 2008
With all these fancy-free Mac Icons you can download, why not spice up your web applications and use them online?
The problem is that the Icon files can’t be opened by Photoshop (there might be a plug-in I’m unaware of that does this). So we need a way of importing the graphic into Photoshop.
Luckily you can do this by simply copying the icon to the clipboard and then pasting it into Photoshop, here’s the process:
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by antbrown on February 7, 2008
I was just sorting through a bunch of old CD’s when I came across one filled to the brim with Soundfonts – You know those magical files that are actually software instruments made up from samples – Well it turns out You can use Soundfonts in Garageband! Here’s how:
- Copy your soundfonts to “/Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks” folder (It can be the one in your Home folder if you like)
- Goto Track info (create a new track first if you don’t have a spare one)
- Click the Details button (little triangle)
- Next to “Generator” choose “DLSMusicDevice”
- Click the Edit button (looks like a pencil)
- Next to “Sound bank” choose the Sound Font you just copied across
That’s it!! Simple stuff.
Now here’s a video of how to find all that stuff in GarageBand:
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