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There's a review of GarageBand that might be able to be mentioned in this article.

—Vespristiano 20:16, 2004 Jan 17 (UTC)

A string of reference links isn't an article, particularly when they don't say anything one couldn't just write. Needs better writing, more details about the software and that last sentence verges on meaningless (references or no). I'll come back to this later - David Gerard 19:47, Jan 20, 2004 (UTC)

From the article:

Version 2 was announced at the (2005) Macworld Conference & Expo on January 11, 2005. Major new features included the abilities to view and edit music in Musical Notation form, to record up to 8 tracks at once, and also to fix timing and Pitch of recordings. It shipped, as announced, around 22 January 2004.

What?? Uttaddmb 04:09, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] My comment on Garageband

You can change the tempo and pitch of the music... where it says the tempo (120 default, next to the BPM) you can click on the small # and move the slider up and down, if you raise the bar, the music speeds up, thus you have raised the tempo. Changing the pitch is harder to explain, so fool around with the options in each individual track...

[edit] Tempo and key signature

The article says that key signature and tempo cannot be changed within a song. This is not true; you need to click the Track Info button (marked with an ), click on Master Track, and the options for key and tempo will be there. Mattderojas 00:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

What it means is that it cannot start at one tempo/key and become another as the song progresses, i.e. you can do it in A, then change your mind and put it in B, but you can't have it change to this midsong. Powrtoch 05:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Anyway, I took out the blip about only being able to import entire songs from a CD, as I personally have imported songs stored on my hard drive. Powrtoch 05:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

You can change it midsong by choosing Track > Show Master Track (command-B), then choose Master Pitch from the pop-up menu, and then click on a place where you want to change it to create a "handle." Then, click on the handle and dragging it up or down. (See GarageBand Help) -- M (speak/spoken) 22:18, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Garage Band for PC

Is there anything like this software for PC users.

Not to my knowledge and the Apple website describes it as unique.

P.S. if there WAS anything like that for PC's it wold be awfully expensive.Binglebongle2000 19:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Someone should seriously consider making an equivalent for the PC - I'm sure they'd make loads of money. --Quinn 22:21, 10 October 2007 (CDT)
Even if there isn't anything absolutely identical, is there a way for GarageBand users to export tracks (such as the behavior of a particular instrument, whose output is mapped or plotted against time and volume) individually, for use or detailed examination by PC users?198.177.27.20 (talk) 09:41, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Attack of the uninformed apple fanboys 80.128.94.12 (talk) 19:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
I have yet to try it, but while searching for a PC equivalent, I found Mixcraft. Unfortunately it costs. Brimstorch (talk) 13:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reorganization

I have reorganized the article, adding section headings and moving content araound to better reflect the structure. Very little content was changed/added/deleted; what was was minor. I hope this is an improvement. Baccyak4H 16:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History

Was GarageBand going to be a Emagic release prior to acquisition by Apple, or was it developed specifically for iLife. And is Emagic still an entity, now owned by Apple, or has Apple completely taken over Logic/Garageband coding?


Just out of curiosity, is there a program similar to GarageBand for Linux?


[edit] Please Respond

Is it legal to sell music you produced on GarageBand? What if you used prerecorded loops? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.125.121.230 (talk) 22:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC).


I think...but probably not without Apple's consent and it would probably get sold on iTunes. You can publish podcasts that you make with GarageBand on iTunes free of charge, however.Binglebongle2000 19:13, 19 May 2007 (UTC)


Ok, I know now. After you make a song you can click "submit to iTunes". But I don't know that much more about it. Binglebongle2000 13:05, 26 May 2007 (UTC)


Have a look at the End User Licensing Agreement for the program. My guess is that if you acquired the program *legally*, all the samples and loops are royalty-free: you payed for the software and the loops/instruments/samples, so you can sell it without any further permission or payment to Apple.
This is not legal advice though- please do consult the EULA or ask an Apple rep if you can't parse the legalese. -Fadookie Talk 21:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notable users?

I think I saw Goldfrapp using it on a video on their website. -Anthony- 01:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I know that Fort Minor's song 'Believe Me' uses a loop from garageband. I would also like to know what happened to the Notable Users section...--RremundO (talk) 00:18, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Logic Express Error

The page on GarageBand says that Logic Express - The "light" version of Logic Pro, intermediate in features between GarageBand and Logic Pro.

This is not correct. Logic Express is the same program as Logic Pro with some of the features turned off or missing.

..and how is that not then the "light" version, with less features? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.151.65.94 (talk) 22:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

I am not sure of the best way to say this. Robert Elliott 19:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

True, but I think Logic Express (like Final Cut Express and others) is supposed to be the 'prosumer' version of the professional software. A step up in power and in price from the consumer products such as Garage Band and iMovie, but lacking features that a working professional would want and would be willing to pay extra for.
-Fadookie Talk 21:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
GarageBand3 has left/right buttons (knobs) for controlling the putative left/right stereo output of each instrument (i.e., "track" in Apple parlance) given life, but is there a way for composers to select a mix in such a way that the output of each instrument is destined for one of four different audio outs? If it is in the docs, I must have missed it.198.177.27.30 (talk) 04:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jam Packs edit

I'm removing the second half of a sentence in this section

    There was also another GarageBand Jam Pack 1 that was discontinued early on; the instruments were probably put into the other Jam Packs.

The part of the sentence after the semicolon is speculative and I doubt there would be any source stating that certain instruments were moved to other Packs. Rajrajmarley 00:29, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright status of loops/samples?

I'd personally love to know if GarageBand's loops and samples are restricted in some manner, or royalty free, as many restrictions would make the inbuilt samples pretty much useless for commercial music... Although, many people (including people on this talk page) have mentioned "(Notable Musician) uses a GarageBand loop". Xmoogle (talk) 00:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Users

Fall out boy creat song songs on it

Fort Minor produced their whole album on it aswell, this should be added to the wiki

Notable Users! 202.156.141.155 (talk) 00:20, 18 May 2008 (UTC)