GarageBand 4+
A recording studio on your Mac
Apple
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- 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
What’s New
Version 10.4.11
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
No Longer Compatible With Plug-ins
I like the application for what it is and is a simple way for me to record guitar riffs and other bits and pieces. The problem i'm having is that the guitar amp plug-in software pieces I use (Neural DSP) are no longer supported by Garageband. They worked for a long time but when I updated to the latest version of Garageband they no longer work so all the tones I've dialed in for practice can no longer be used and I can no longer track riffs without using the amps which already come with Garageband. Please do another update so plug in software pieces can be used. I also contacted Neural DSP to see if there was anything they could do but they said its on Garagebands end to sort the issue. Thanks
amazing stuff
been a pro musician for many years, I play seriously 3 instruments. Garageband is brilliant. I regret not having started to use it earlier, this is due to all the numpties who told me that Garageband is 'not for serious use'. That's complete garbage, gb is truly a daw for the MUSICIAN. If you are a MIXING ENGINEER then you might find gb basic, but for a musician this is a game changer. The Drummer is the best drum machine in the world, even top notch software like EZ Drummer, which I used before switching to Mac, is no match for the Drummer! And it's even free! I would have bought it in a heartbeat. It doesn't have all the minute detail of EZ Drummer, but it will give you a solid drum track far more easily and in NO TIME.
The MS Paint of Podcasting
Garage Band used to be a wonderful tool for creating podcasts as well as music tracks. Steve foresaw that as an important use case in the future, and he was right. Now there's no chapters, artwork, metadata support of any kind.
There's also no automation/AppleScript support, or any way to use the files outside of Garage Band. It doesn't even support Spotlight to search e.g. track / region names. Impossible to integrate with external tools.
It's little more functional than Voice Memos for podcasters. First-party apps on macOS were struggling for years to get back where they were '09, and it looks like they've given up. The iOS-era rewrites were a disaster.
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Information
- Provider
- Apple Distribution International
- Size
- 855.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2004-2024 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free