GarageBand 4+

Name: GarageBand
Rating: 4 (621 reviews)
Author: Apple

A recording studio on your Mac

Apple

- 4.0 • 621 Ratings

- Free

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Description

GarageBand is the easiest way to create a great-sounding song on your Mac. Add realistic, impeccably produced and performed drum grooves to your song with Drummer. Easily shape the sound of any instrument in the Sound Library with Smart Controls. Mix and match electric guitar amps, cabinets and pedals with Amp Designer and Pedalboard or crank up the bottom end with Bass Amp Designer. Control GarageBand and play any software instrument wirelessly on your iPad using the Logic Remote app. Use iCloud to keep your GarageBand projects updated across multiple Mac computers, or even import GarageBand for iOS songs directly from iCloud.

Intuitive Design
• Simple interface designed for easy music making
• Find the sweet spot in every track with the interactive visual EQ
• Enable Quick Help and get useful hints wherever you hover your cursor

Drummer
• Add a virtual session drummer, percussionist or beat producer to your song that takes direction and plays realistic beats
• Choose from among 33 players from popular genres like EDM, Hip Hop, Rock and Alternative
• Use a simple set of controls to shape your drummer’s performance
• Each player can perform over a million unique groove and fill combinations

Sound Library
• Get inspired with a fresh new collection of sounds and instruments from some of today’s biggest producers
• Explore new Apple Loops covering the latest electronic and urban genres
• Drummer loops can be added to your song and then customised with performance controls

Smart Controls
• Easily shape any sound in the library with a custom set of knobs, buttons and sliders
• The look and personality of Smart Controls changes with each instrument

Amps and Stompboxes
• Use Bass Amp Designer to dial up classic and modern tones
• Build your own guitar rig with Amp Designer using 25 legendary amps and cabinets
• Design a custom Pedalboard from a collection of 35 fun and creative stompbox effects

Record. Mix. Master.
• Create a song with up to 255 tracks
• Quickly change the timing of an audio recording using Flex Time
• Use Groove Track to align the rhythm and timing of all your tracks with a single click
• Choose your best performance with multi-take recording

iCloud
• Use iCloud to keep your GarageBand projects up to date across your Mac computers
• Start a song anywhere on your iPhone or iPad, then import it wirelessly to your Mac to take it even further
• Remotely add new tracks to your project using GarageBand on your iPhone or iPad

Works with Logic Remote
• Use your iPhone or iPad and Multi-Touch gestures to wirelessly play any GarageBand instrument on your Mac
• Access Smart Controls on your iPad to shape any sound while you’re playing
• Navigate your song and browse the Sound Library from your iPad

Learn to Play
• Get started with 40 Basic Lessons for guitar and piano covering classical, blues, rock and pop
• Free Artist Lessons show you how to play a hit song taught by the artist who made it famous

12 Mar 2024

Version 10.4.11

This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes

4.0 out of 5

621 Ratings

Laptop Application is Excellent for Beginners

While Logic Pro and Ableton provide more professional features and results, this application is excellent for beginner/intermediate artists/producers who are looking to explore how music composition and equipment functionality works. I don't recommend the app on iPhones/iPads as it isn't as advanced as it is on a laptop (espesially with the latest update) and takes up a lot of space.

Plenty of people have a problem with the large data usage but this is easily solvable by saving old works onto a hard drive and deleting the completed work files.

In summary, definantly recommend for beginners learning the ropes.

You cant use it with ipad despite what Apple says.

i have the latest versions of Garageband on both my Macbook pro and my brand new iPad pro. My aim was to create rhythm tracks on the ipad and transfer them aross to the Macbook as the Macbook Garageband app doesn't have the facility to manually play digital drums (Why? Apple why? If you can do it on the ipad, surely it’s also possible on the Macbook) but no matter what i try, how many forums’ advice I follow, Garageband does not share. I have transferred macbook files to the iPad only to get an error message explaining that the files won’t open because the Mac version and ios version of Garage band aren’t compatible. Transferring the other way, from the ipad to MacBook,i get an error message on the Macbook saying the files can’t be opened on the Macbook because the ipad is using “a newer version’ of Garageband and they aren’t compatible. I repeat, I have downloaded the latest versions of both, and the Apple site tells me there is no later version for either device. Simply stated, I bought a new ipad pro to enhance my recording only to find it is useless for the task because Apple’s claims for Garageband - namely that you can share files between two Apple devices both running Garageband - are simply false. Doesn’t anybody in Apple check that the software actually does what they promise before unleashing it on the poor trusting public.

Would like to see Artist Lesson Library get new songs on a regular basis

The only thing that'd see me give a five star review is if the Artist Lesson Library gets expanded via an Apple for Artists portal with lessons uploadable either from this app or Logic Pro X. Other than that shortcoming, I reckon it's an excellent app for beginner musicians and music producers.

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Seller

Apple Pty Limited

Size

855.3 MB