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Overview

GarageBand is a multi-function audio and music creation program from Apple.

1. Audio Recording

GarageBand is a miniature digital audio workstation (DAW) which can record and play back multiple tracks of audio. Built in audio filters allow the audio track to be enhanced for recording guitar instruments, etc. A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. ... Overview A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit, and play back digital audio. ...

2. Loop-base music generation

GarageBand belongs to the genre of loop-based music sequencing software first popularised during the late-1990s by Sony's ACID Pro. The application comes with 1,000 pre-recorded sampled and sequenced loops. Additional loops are available in the five GarageBand Jam Packs, separate products offered by Apple Computer; each expansion pack costs approximately $100 USD and adds more than two thousand loops. Sony ACID Pro (formerly called ACID Music) is the name of the loop-based music production software originally published by Sonic Foundry that is now owned and run by Sony. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. ... In music, the term loop describes a finite element of sound which is repeated by technical means (i. ... GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create music or podcasts. ...

3. Virtual software instruments

GarageBand can play virtual software instruments for creating songs or playing music live using 50 sampled or synthesized instruments which can be played using a MIDI keyboard connected to the computer, or using an on-screen virtual keyboard. Additional instruments are available in the five GarageBand Jam Packs, separate products offered by Apple Computer; each expansion pack costs approximately $100 USD and adds dozens of virtual instruments. A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, phase distortion, or Scanned synthesis. ... MIDI Keyboard A piano-style digital keyboard device used for sending MIDI signals or commands to other devices connected to the same interface as the keyboard. ... The virtual is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations, and also denotations. ... The layout of a typical musical keyboard A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds. ... GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create music or podcasts. ...

4. Midi editing

GarageBand can import MIDI files and offers piano roll or notation-style editing and playback. (GarageBand cannot export MIDI files.) Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...

GarageBand is only available as a part of iLife, a suite of applications (also including iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, and iWeb) intended to simplify the creation and organization of users' digital content. iLife is included on new Macintosh computers; upgrades can be purchased separately. The application is not aimed at professional musicians, but it is intended to help amateurs produce music easily. iLife 06 Box iLife is a collection of software products created by Apple, designed for Mac OS X, used to create, organize, view and manipulate digital content. ... iPhoto is a software application made by Apple Inc. ... iMovie is a video editing software application which allows users to edit their own home movies. ... iDVD is a DVD creation software application made by Apple Computer for Mac OS X. iDVD allows the user to add QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. ... This article is about about the iTunes application. ... iWeb is a WYSIWYG template-based website creation tool made by Apple and included with its Macintosh computers. ... “Instrumentalist” redirects here. ... Look up amateur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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History

GarageBand was developed by Apple under the direction of Gerhard Lengeling, formerly of the German company Emagic, makers of Logic Audio. (Emagic was acquired by Apple in July 2002.) Emagic was a computer software company based in Rellingen, Germany. ... ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

The application was announced during Steve Jobs's keynote speech at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco on 6 January 2004; musician John Mayer assisted with its demonstration. Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 359 days (360 in leap years) remaining. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Clayton Mayer (born on October 16, 1977) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist. ...

GarageBand 2 was announced at the (2005) Macworld Conference & Expo on January 11, 2005. It shipped, as announced, around 22 January 2005. Major new features included the abilities to view and edit music in Musical Notation form, to record up to 8 tracks at once, to fix timing and pitch of recordings, to automate track pan position, master volume, and master pitch, to transpose both audio and MIDI, and to import MIDI files. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. ...

GarageBand 3, announced at 2006's Macworld Conference & Expo, includes a 'podcast studio', including the ability to use more than 200 effects and jingles, and integration with iChat for remote interviews. An orange square with waves indicates that an RSS feed is present on a web page. ... iChat is an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ and Jabber client for Mac OS X. Using a Jabber-like protocol and Bonjour for user discovery, it also allows for LAN communication. ...

Interface

GarageBand features a block like interface in which different strands of notes, referred to as loops, fit together on separate levels, referred to as tracks or instruments. The program comes with pre-made loops that you simply drag-and-drop into tracks. There are three types of tracks: software instruments, real instruments and imported MIDI tracks. A software instrument can be a synthesized version of a real instrument (like the sounds of a violin or drums), or a unique instrument, generated by computer software. ...

Software instruments are instruments built into the application similar to how instruments are built into a synthesizer. Since all of the instruments use the same concert pitch, you have the ability to alter software loops. For instance, a loop designed for an electric piano could be placed into a church organ track if you were looking for a more religious feel. The real writing process comes in with the software instruments. You can only write music for the software instruments since their notes are built into the system. There are several ways of inputting musical notes and rhythms. You can click different piano keys on an on-screen virtual piano keyboard window but that makes it difficult to play in time. The most practical way if you really want to record as if you were playing the piano but without any hardware attachments is the musical typing feature. This will bring up an on-screen keyboard in which keys correspond to keys on a piano. Editing of recorded tracks is possible via a piano-roll or staff (standard notation) edit mode. Notes can be created/added, modified or deleted. In the piano-roll edit mode, for a note to be longer you simple elongate the block. If you want the note to start earlier you move the block closer to the beginning. In the standard notation edit mode, notes are dragged in their position. You can only edit the notes of loops that are in software tracks.

The other type of track is called a "Real Instrument" track. This is where the recording process of GarageBand comes in. Using a microphone or plugging the instrument directly in (or through an audio interface/mixer), you can record an instrument being played or a voice-over. You can apply several effects to the recorded mesh such as "Glam" if you wanted an electrical guitar sound or "Deeper Vocals" if you wanted a voice to sound lower. Real instrument tracks could be seen as universal since imported music or recorded sound are displayed as real instrument tracks. It is even capable of putting software track loops into real instrument tracks.

Prior to GarageBand 3, imported MIDI tracks cannot be modified in GarageBand.

Both tracks can be used together in the final production. You could have a software instrument drum line that is looping over and over again, while a real instrument track has you playing a melody on the trombone or any instrument. In that sense really comes the essence of GarageBand which is the combining of the tracks to create a block of sound composed of different instruments and parts.

In GarageBand 3, a movie track was added to allow for accurate film scoring. The new interface allows you to watch a movie while creating or playing back your music in GarageBand. To keep the interface simple, you must drag the movie from the Macintosh Finder to the video track to import a video into GarageBand 3. This is similar to the way that editable MIDI files are added to GarageBand 3.

Limitations

While GarageBand can be used to produce professional-quality recordings, the software has limitations that in practice make this difficult. Tempo for each track and key signature cannot be changed within a song, but since version 2, the master pitch can be changed mid-song. Automation of effects parameters is also absent, as is a (native) MIDI out capability. The first two measures of Mozarts Sonata XI, which indicates the tempo as Andante grazioso and the metronome marking as = 120. (Metronome markings were not used in Mozarts day. ... This key signature – A major or F# minor – consists of three sharps placed after the clef In musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp symbols or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be consistently played one semitone higher or lower than the...

Music purchased via the iTunes Store cannot be imported directly into GarageBand due to its DRM protection. This is to prevent people from importing the song and re-exporting it DRM-free, allowing them to circumvent the limitations of DRM protection. The acronym DRM can stand for: Digital Rights Management - Technologies to give content providers control over redistribution and access to material. ...

Jam Packs

The collection of GarageBand Jam Packs as of June 2006

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The Jam Packs have been packaged in two different package designs thus far coinciding with newer releases of iLife. All Jam Packs to date are:

• GarageBand Jam Pack 1: World Music ([1])
• GarageBand Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools ([2])
• GarageBand Jam Pack 3: Rhythm Section ([3])
• GarageBand Jam Pack 4: Symphony Orchestra ([4])

In recent releases the numbering of the packs has been dropped as well as the first Jam Pack.

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Instrument packages designed specifically for GarageBand

In addition to Apple, other companies offer virtual software instrument packs designed specially for GarageBand.

Free software instruments

• Boldt 24-Pack by Ben Boldt is a free download of symphonic instruments ([5])
• Boldt 24-Pack Volume II 1.0 by Ben Boldt is a free download of symphonic instruments ([6])
• Fitch Cello by professional cellist Claire Fitch was converted to GarageBand by Ben Boldt. Free download. ([7])

Commercial software instruments

• SynthPack for GarageBand contains software instruments for GarageBand which sound like the classic synths of the 80s and 90s. ([8])
• PowerPack for GarageBand - Apple Loops & Instruments contains 55 software instruments for GarageBand ([9])
• R&B for GarageBand - Apple Loops & Instruments contains 20 software instruments for GarageBand ([10])
• Hip Hop for GarageBand - Apple Loops & Instruments contains 8 software instruments for GarageBand ([11])

Other virtual software instrument that work inside GarageBand

GarageBand can use any softsynth that adheres to the Core Audio (Audio Unit) standard which includes the Kontakt, Battery, Atmosphere, Reaktor, FM7 engines.

However, there are limitations. Here is an example:

• MOTU Symphonic Instrument has symphony orchestra insruments which will work with GarageBand and Logic.

Note: While MOTU will work with GarageBand, it is not set up for direct use in GarageBand. Therefore, this package is much more awkward to use and setup than Apple's Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra. MOTU Symphonic Instrument also requires much more memory and computer power. Therefore, MOTU does not even include instruction for using these instruments in GarageBand with the package.

Using SoundFont instruments (.sf2) in GarageBand

• SoundFont Synth is an Audio Unit plug-in which uses Apple's DLS synthesizer engine to make instruments using Sound Fonts in GarageBand. ([12])

Creating your own software instruments

• PolyPhontics GB is a software instrument toolbox for making software instruments for Apple's GarageBand. ([13])

Notable users

• Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor released singles "The Hand That Feeds" and "Only" from their 2005 album With Teeth as GarageBand files, allowing people to freely remix them. The first single from their 2007 album Year Zero, called "Survivalism", has also now been released in this way, as well as "Capital G", "Me, I'm Not", and "My Violent Heart"; Reznor has stated their intention is to release the entire album in GarageBand format.
• Fort Minor also used a GarageBand file ("Orchestra Strings 8") in their single "Believe Me". Panic! At The Disco is also another notable band that used Garageband when the band first started out.
• Mindless Self Indulgence used a loop included in the program called "Secret Agent Guitar" in their song "My World."
• In the movie Constantine, during the end credits the included loop "Edgy Synth" can be heard in one of the songs.
• Crazy Frog also used a GarageBand file in their song "In The 80's."^{[citation needed]}
• Karaoke Kill Machine[14] uses GarageBand almost exclusively on all of their songs.
• Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has noted on his MySpace profile that he has made countless songs on GarageBand, including "Masturbation".
• The end theme of 12 oz. Mouse episode "Auraphull" was made with GarageBand loops, most noticeably "Fusion Electric Piano 09" and "70s Ballad Strings 02." The end credits appear to state that this was made by Schoolly D.
• Sean Callery used loops from GarageBand in pieces from the 24 Season 5 soundtrack.
• Brand New, a popular alt-rock group, used GarageBand to record their "Fight Off your Demons" demos that were leaked onto the internet in early 2006

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See also

• Logic Pro - A professional audio production application by Apple Computer.
• Logic Express - The "light" version of Logic Pro, intermediate in features between GarageBand and Logic Pro.
• iTunes - GarageBand's songs can be exported to Apple's music player. Both are part of the iLife application suite.

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GarageBand-like software

• Sony ACID Pro for Windows
• Acoustica Mixcraft for Windows
• Jokosher for Linux

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External links

At Wikiversity, you can learn about:

GarageBand

• Official home page
• GarageBand Jam Packs
• GarageBand Tutorial: Built-in Audio Unit Effects, a detailed explanation of GarageBand's Audio Units filters
• List of the contents of all four GarageBand Jam Packs
• Wikivid GarageBand Video Course