Comments on: GarageBand 08 New Features in Pictures; Do Pros Use GarageBand?

By: dana

dana — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:41:43 +0000

wow i hav a real g. band lol

By: Blafonio

Blafonio — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:52:39 +0000

I’m new to Garageband, but have used Acid quite a lot. Acid is a great program that keeps geting better.
I’ve been a Mac user since the very beginning, and hate to use PCs. GB seems to be a pretty good program that will let anyone be creative. I haven’t got to where i think it’s quite as good/intuitive/powerful as Acid, but I’m willing to work for it. John — just get Acid Studio and have fun.

By: John

John — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:16:12 +0000

I'm stuck on Windows for now. If any of you have experience with Sony Acid, MixCraft, Audacity, or other Windows products, I'm documenting my search for GarageBand for Windows at garagebandforwindows.wordpress.com. I would appreciate any comments or feedback.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:23:57 +0000

I played around with it for a while but cannot get away from Live 6, which, for my needs has all the best features.
I agree that to introduce youngsters to music it’s a great tool.

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:24:31 +0000

There are extremely dedicated amateurs with extremely advanced skills.

Who can use outside programs to generate the audio that is assembled (possibly effected) in GB.

Where GB falls miserably short as a Pro tool is MIDI. But then, so does Logic Express, and to some extent Logic Pro (deep/creative MIDI editing is 8 years behind at least).

By: brendn81

brendn81 — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:50:21 +0000

Three (3) quick things i would change about garageband:
preference to stop AUTO SCROLLING (screen bouncing from left to right when i reposition the playback cursor!)
preference to stop AUTO RECORD MODE (feedback from laptop mic every time i restart a project? wtf?)

ABILITY to zoom in and out as far as possible (to see entire project)

By: bliss

bliss — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:23:39 +0000

I don’t use GarageBand. I use loops, though. And I don’t care if anybody recognizes them. Usually through some heavy processing and slicing they can’t be recognized, but sometimes they can. I think that recognizing loops can be a charming thing. Kind of like recognizing that Crayola crayons have been used in a piece of art. Sure, it can be cheesy sometimes as well, but only if you think it’s cheesy. ;)

By: Peter Kearney

Peter Kearney — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:15:01 +0000

Many of the producers in the “producer’s masterclass” videos that Future Music have been doing use Garageband to get the skeleton of a track down, especially if they’re on the road. It’s super quick to try out various random loops and get some ideas going.. then just transfer your project over to your DAW of choice.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:57:52 +0000

I love GB absolutely: Nice interface, easy to use and a well balanced feature set. The only thing I miss is MIDI out (I’m not lucky with the Midio AU). Another (hopefully temporarily) issue is the broken ReWire in the first release of GB ‘08: While rewiring GB ‘08 with Reason you will hear only one audio channel :-(

BTW, here is a cool site which described all the new stuff (even new details): http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/FAQPages/WhatsNew08.html

By: Lost

Lost — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:54:18 +0000

woops, garageband 2