GarageBand
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- This article is about the software application. For other uses, see garage band (disambiguation).
| GarageBand | |
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| Use: | Digital music creator
<tr><th>License:</th><td>Proprietary</td></tr> |
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| Website: | www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ |
GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create a piece of music. It is developed by Apple Computer for Mac OS X.
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[edit] Overview
GarageBand can only be purchased as part of iLife, a suite of applications (also including iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, and iWeb) intended to simplify the creation and organization of users' digital content. The application is not aimed at professional musicians, but it is intended to help amateurs produce music easily.
The application comes with 1,000 pre-recorded sampled and sequenced loops, and 50 sampled or synthesized instruments which can be played using a MIDI keyboard connected to the computer, or using an on-screen keyboard. Additional loops and instruments are available in the four GarageBand Jam Packs, separate products offered by Apple Computer; each expansion pack costs $99 USD and adds more than two thousand loops and dozens of virtual instruments.
There are several 3rd party companies that offer Garageband Apple loop sample content, both on CD and in downloadable loop packs. Users can also record their own loops through a microphone or via a MIDI keyboard.
[edit] History
GarageBand was originally developed by the German company Emagic, developers of the professional musical program Logic Audio. (Emagic was acquired by Apple in July 2002.)
The application was announced during Steve Jobs's keynote speech at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco on 6 January, 2004; musician John Mayer assisted with its demonstration.
GarageBand 2 was announced at the (2005) Macworld Conference & Expo on January 11, 2005. It shipped, as announced, around 22 January, 2005. Major new features included the abilities to view and edit music in Musical Notation form, to record up to 8 tracks at once, to fix timing and pitch of recordings, to automate track pan position, master volume, and master pitch, to transpose both audio and MIDI, and to import MIDI files.
GarageBand 3, announced at 2006's Macworld Conference & Expo, includes a 'podcast studio', including the ability to use more than 200 effects and jingles, and integration with iChat for remote interviews.
[edit] Limitations
While GarageBand can be used to produce professional-quality recordings, the software has limitations that in practice make this difficult. This is particularly evident in older versions where Tempo for each track and key signature can not be changed within a song. This has been fixed with the advent of Version 3. Automation of effects parameters is also absent, as is a (native) MIDI out capability.
Music purchased via the iTunes Store cannot be imported directly into GarageBand.
[edit] Jam Packs
The Jam Packs have been packaged in two different package designs thus far coinciding with newer releases of iLife. All Jam Packs to date are:
- GarageBand Jam Pack 1
- GarageBand Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools ([1])
- GarageBand Jam Pack 3: Rhythm Section ([2])
- GarageBand Jam Pack 4: Symphony Orchestra ([3])
- GarageBand Jam Pack 5: World Music ([4])
In recent releases the numbering of the packs has been dropped as well as the first Jam Pack.
A selection of demonstration loops from each of the Jam Packs are also freely downloadable to users who own a .Mac account.
[edit] Notable users
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor released a few songs off their 2005 album With Teeth as GarageBand files, allowing people to freely remix them.
[edit] See also
- Logic Pro - A professional audio production application by Apple Computer.
- Logic Express - The "light" version of Logic Pro, intermediate in features between GarageBand and Logic Pro.
- iTunes - GarageBand's songs can be exported to Apple's music player. Both are part of the iLife application suite.
[edit] External links
- Official home page
- GarageBand Jam Packs
- GarageBand Tutorial: Built-in Audio Unit Effects, a detailed explanation of GarageBand's Audio Units filters
| Apple's iLife |
| iDVD | GarageBand | iMovie | iPhoto | iTunes | iWeb |
| Apple Computer software | |
|---|---|
| OS: | Mac OS X | Mac OS 9 |
| Consumer: | .Mac | iLife | iTunes | iWork | Mac OS X |
| Prosumer: | Final Cut Express | Logic Express |
| Pro: | Aperture | Final Cut Studio | Logic Pro | Shake |
| Bundled: | Front Row | iChat | Photo Booth | QuickTime | Safari | TextEdit |
| Server: | Apple Remote Desktop | Mac OS X Server | WebObjects | Xsan |
| Discontinued: | AppleWorks | HyperCard | MacDraw | Mac OS | MacPaint | MacProject | MacTerminal | MacWrite |
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