Apple kicked off its MacBook Pro keynote a little differently today: with a sweet remix of classic Apple sound effects from the past 45 years of the company’s history, created by artist A. G. Cook — ...

A fun piece from CNBC this morning highlights Jim Reekes, a former Apple employee who created numerous sound effects for the Mac during his time at Apple. Reekes left ...

July 25, 2016 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google For most of us, the little sound effects a Mac makes aren’t particularly useful. The trash can sound and ...

One of my favorite Mac programs is Garage Band. As a musician and songwriter, I am endlessly impressed with how much creativity and flexibility Apple has built into the program, for my money the star ...

In a newly-published interview, former Apple sound designer Jim Reekes discusses the history of the sound cues he created for the company's devices, such as the famous Mac "beep" and startup chords, ...

In the late 1980s Jim Reekes began working as a sound designer for Apple, creating some of the Mac's most iconic sounds like the "Sosumi" beep, startup chord, and camera/screenshot click. In a new ...

Apple today updated its GarageBand music creation software for Mac to version 10.3, introducing new loops, sound effects, drummers, and more, all for free. There are two new Drummers that offer Roots ...

Earlier this week, the news broke that the automatic boot feature on Apple’s new MacBook Pros — which causes the computer to start up when the lid is opened — came at a heavy price: the removal of the ...

macOS 11 Big Sur represents a massive visual redesign of the Mac operating system, bringing a variety of new icons, a translucent menu bar, and much more. In addition to the visual redesign, however, ...

macOS has two distinct volume control options in the Sound preference pane that affect how a Mac produces sound. The Alert volume slider in the middle controls sound effect and notification volume; ...