Home Recording: Apple's GarageBand, etc.

[DudeAsInCool]

Apple has just released an inexpensive program for aspiring musicians who dont have the dough to rent more expensive recording equipment. Below is some information. Please feel free to comment about this program or others that you use.

http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

Garage Band joins Apple's iLife By Cherise O'Neill

Electronic Music News -- Tuesday, January 06, 2004

San Francisco -- Garage Band is the latest addition to Apple's iLife suite of applications which include iPhoto digital photo management, iMovie digital video processing, iDVD MPEG2 mastering suite and iTunes, the number one digital audio jukebox and music store in the world which, as of December 2003, holds a seventy percent share of the digital audio download market.

With Garage Band people who have always thought about making their own music can now do just that, and as John Mayer, Steve Jobs' keynote guest at Macworld 04 pointed out, this promises to be very popular with musicians who need to put together a track to groove to while practicing and making new music.

As a direct result of Apple's acquisition of Emagic, Garage Band is complimented by a massive collection of samples and loops called Jam Pack which retails for $99, but the basic Garage Band suite should satisfy most everybody with its built-in collection of goodies.

iLife is available January 16th from Apple Stores both online and off, and will retail for $49.95.

http://www.electronicmusic.com/new/5347/html

[DudeAsInCool]

Here's a brief discussion which briefly explain the differences between GarageBand, Soundtrack, and Logic, and the benefits of each:

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/54466-1.html