GarageBand 4+

Name: GarageBand
Rating: 3 (9 reviews)
Author: Apple

A recording studio on your Mac

Apple

- 3.0 • 9 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

3.0 out of 5

9 Ratings

I think this should be called Logic Limited Version

I was quite happy and excited to get the new garageband but when I was trying to use it I had several difficulties trying to make something simple.

- I don’t feel like I am using garageband anymore, this is a Logic Pro limited version, all the little features you had on Garageband that made it easy to use are gone.
- Garageband was made to be simple, the instrument library has a lot of paths. Example: I installed an instrument pack with quite a few different instruments and to get to them instead of going Library > Bass you have to go Library > Legacy > Garageband > Bass, this applies for Logic as well. I don’t see the point.
- Drummer which I think was the nicest addition to garageband is extremely limited. Writing a 4/4 beat all the time is kind of boring, sometimes you want the verse to be 1/4 beat long and since you can’t convert the loop to a midi or audio to have full control of placement you are stuck with an addictional fill that comes from nowhere because the loop was programmed to start at a specific place.
- There was a extra quality check on loops which is nice but midi loops were cut loose, which is a bummer.
- Sharing mp3 or 320Kbs option GONE. For those who want to hear the last track you created on a non iPhone phone have to go a long way to do that.
- Splitting an Arrangement bar no longer possible.
- Bye bye Podcast template.
- Inspector or Track Inspector is dearly missed on the Library Palette.
- Audio Unit hard and long way to find. Ok so you create a new empty project, with audio/microphone selected, you want to add some AU FX that you just installed, you have to select Smart Controls > select Inspector raise the Smart Controls palette up so that you get the Audio Unit option to come up. Seriously?!
- No more Reverb and Echo AU, to have full control of these effects you have to add your own.
- Last but not least if this new garageband is to stay, it needs a propper version name to differ from the others.

I am no longer looking forward for any Garageband updates, the only way to properly use this application is to stay with the old version and buy Logic X for the features (because in Logic you have way more control of everything).

It is the introduction to music for all

Whatever can be said about GarageBand, it is full of wonders for all who want to make their own music and are of all ages and races.

I have 8 years old imac. cannot use garageband. Apple dont support this app for older version

I have 8 years old imac. Therefor I cannot use garageband any more :-/
Apple dont support this app for older version of iOS -
shame on you Appel and Garageband for leaving your loal customer out in the dark.

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Provider

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Size

855.3 MB