Apple debuts GarageBand, other accessories
updated 03:05 pm EST, Tue January 6, 2004
GarageBand
as part of its iLife '04 suite. The application offers a complete recording studio for both novice and seasoned musicians, allowing users to record live performances as well as edit digital audio and looping tracks like building blocks to create a song. GarageBand comes with more than 50 software instruments, including a premium-quality grand piano, that can be played and recorded with any USB or MIDI music keyboard. GarageBand will be available as part of iLife '04 on January 16th.
GarageBand also includes over 1,000 professionally pre-recorded audio loops, 200 pro-quality effects presets (including pro-quality effects such as reverb and echo), and six guitar amps, including clean jazz, arena rock and British invasion. GarageBand can also export completed songs to iTunes for burning to CD, encoding in MP3 or high
quality AAC, transfer to iPod or for use in the other iLife applications.
Users can also enhance the GarageBand library with the GarageBand Jam Pack, a $100 collection of more than 2,000 additional Apple Loops in a variety of instruments, moods and genres; over 100 new Software Instruments; more than 100 additional effects presets; and 15 guitar amp settings. Apple also announced it would be reselling the M-Audio Keystation 49e, which lets you play any GarageBand instrument on a velocity-sensitive USB controller keyboard ($100).
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Well, I'm glad I didn't fork out hundreds of dollars for Cubase, or Emagic, or ProTools, or Deck. I was in the market for sound recording software. This $49 price is wonderful.
Wonder if the software makers get annoyed with Apple. After all, who's going to spend $500 on audio software, when they can get it dirt cheap from Apple? I know Adobe already pulled the plub on Premiere. Hope others don't follow.