Garage Band versus Soundtrack, Apple Options

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Garage Band versus Soundtrack

[boze]

This was the only real positive thing about the keynote for me. i think that GarageBand is a great offering that fills a good sized niche for folks who don't need a big scalable daw but want to do an ep or a demo either backing themselves up with virtual instruments or tracking their band.

also, AU support is a pleasant surprise.

[wlevin]

Post moved to Apple Introduces GarageBand forum.

This post has been edited by wlevin: Wed 7 Jan 2004, 01:24

[stellarSYNTH]

This was the only real positive thing about the keynote for me. i think that GarageBand is a great offering that fills a good sized niche for folks who don't need a big scalable daw but want to do an ep or a demo either backing themselves up with virtual instruments or tracking their band.

also, AU support is a pleasant surprise.

I am also excited about this release. Like many others on this forurm, I am sure, I began with synthesizers when their connections to computers was in it's infancy. I used to have Sequential Circuits woefully under powered "Six Trac" whihc was one of the first MIDI keyboards introduced. I went on to other pieces of equipment and settled with VISION whihc alos became an anacronism. I am a MIDI hobbyist, but the announcement od GarageBand was music to my ears. I simple couldn't justify the cost of CUBASE for my humble needs.
I have ordered GargeBand and the JAMPACK. I hope to share my experiences and questions here.
I am also surprised that I could not find the Keystation 49e listed among the products at m-audio <http://www.m-audio.com>. My keyboards are aging and the small one I was planning to use with GarageBand (DX-100) does not send velocity sensitivity. I am thinking of cancelling my order of the 49e and ordering the Oxegen8. Anyone using it?

[boze]

i would go for a pcr-30 from edirol. or at least consider it.

way more controls and adjusting knobs and sliders on screen with knobs and sliders in real life is handy in lots of apps.

[macmusicpd]

Does anybody know how many audio tracks Garage Band can record? And what about bits? 24/96? Can it import MIDI tracks? With velocity?

If so to all those things Garage Band could be useful. I've looked on the Garage Band page and can't find those specs.

[boze]

i think it was 64 tracks of audio. not sure what bitrate and freq.

i remember somebody saying you could only automate volume though. but it's not going to be a real daw- that's not the point, ya know?

[peterkirn]

Yeah, you can clearly see the volume automation features in the screenshots. Very cool.

And I agree, not a real DAW but it's something that may make a great, great sketchpad even for the rest of us. Just like sometimes I like to write ideas in TextEdit and not Word!

[boze]

i totally agree with that completely, i'm looking forward to seeing if it's just faster to use for me than dp because i'm not a poweruser like some of the folks here and right now i'm just recording rough cuts of jazz standards to send to my bassist friend as mp3s.