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Favourite Things about Garageband

Funky-Foo-Ni...	Date: August 12, 2005 @ 8:00 PM When I saw this forum I was happy, this is because Garageband is what I use to make all my stuff. But this forum has been pretty dead, so I'm making my own topic in hopes of livening things up. Instead of rambling on for hours, I'm gonna get straight to the point. What is your favourite part about garageband. Your favourite effect, favourite instrument, favourite loop, anything at all. Personally I'm quite fond of the filter effects. My favourite instrument is the rotuma bell. So, what are you garageband favourites?
Funky-Foo-Ni...	Date: August 12, 2005 @ 8:01 PM Fuck, I double posted accidentally, please ignore this one.
tsand19151	Date: August 12, 2005 @ 9:13 PM the best thing about it is that it runs on a MAC!!
Snoogans775	Date: August 13, 2005 @ 2:32 AM I like it's availability, you get the laptop, and it's there! it's like sea fleas and rotting carcasses.
Funky-Foo-Ni...	Date: August 14, 2005 @ 1:31 AM Everything makes more sense when explained with rotting carasses!
Funky-Foo-Ni...	Date: August 14, 2005 @ 1:32 AM That would be carcasses, not car asses
MidiMacMan	Date: August 14, 2005 @ 4:43 PM GarageBand gets far too little credit here and in much of the "world outside of mac". (wait there is actually a world ouside of the mac?). Hahahahah.......I was wearing blinders for quite a while, and this site has shown me that there is more than mac, and GarageBand. MACSNOB supreme with cheese melted all over myself.......that was me. Now knowing how caught up in my "mac snob" attitude that I was, I ask the rest of the world (pc users whom are a larger majority, for forgiveness). I think that if mac users weren't so stuck up, then GarageBand would be recognized by more people as an amazing application that it is. But then I am rambling on about an seeming unspoken realiy.......Mac Users can be such self-righteous jerks sometimes. But, in my case, I use GarageBand for everything.....at least I have up until now. Beginner, I am.....but I have spent more hours in front of this application than all other programs combined. My favorite features: Bass Amps Settings in 2.0 aren't half bad.....in fact I like the "fat" setting the most. For those who are keyboardists, not guitarists, we appreciate the power in software synthesis. Also like the "Vocal Transformer" settings. "mouse voice, male-to-female, deep soulfoul, falsetto, chipmunk--amazing how much one can change the characteristic sound of themselves all in the digital domain. Most of all favorite aspect of GarageBand, is that it is easy to use even if for someone who has never heard the words multi track recording before. Simpley put, GarageBand will allow just about anyone with a desire to create music, that opportunity and will teach them vital aspects about multi-tracking that can be applied in more advanced applications and studio techniques. Way to Keep IT SIMPLE apple. MidiMacMan
Punker728	Date: March 25, 2006 @ 6:50 PM I like all the great loops first of all. I also like how easy it is to use.
leedsquietman	Date: March 25, 2006 @ 9:27 PM It's good because it comes for free!
ScienceHarbor	Date: April 12, 2006 @ 8:40 AM I like how real you can make the software instruments. It's not like in cakewalk MIDI where everything just sounds like a trebley "tap" or "pff." The instruments sound real to begin with, but by adding maybe an effect or adjusting the velocity in certain areas you can really make the music sound acoustic. Which brings me to the question; If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it does it make a sound? If no one can tell that they are listening to programmed music, is it even electronic music anymore? heehee, brain candy.
shadowself	Date: April 12, 2006 @ 12:25 PM Whoa, whoa, whoa. Cakewalk MIDI does not "sound" like anything. MIDI is just data, dude. If your MIDI in Cakewalk "sounded" like ass, then you were using a crappy soundcard or didn't bother to get the MIDI to control some good VSTs.
Alexsy	Date: May 15, 2006 @ 12:28 AM i have these two guitar amp settings that i just love. one for bass, one for guitar ... they are just right.
GeneHilbert	Date: May 15, 2006 @ 12:52 AM shadowself is correct - it's not the program. It's the tone generator and engineer. A bad carpenter always blames his tools.... I can take old Cakewalk Pro-Audio 9 and blow away anything you can do in Garageband.
PrincessTast...	Date: June 14, 2006 @ 5:44 PM I sadly cannot use Garageband. You guys have all the fun.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: July 15, 2006 @ 1:03 PM You ain't missing much.
hueseph	Date: August 25, 2006 @ 4:52 AM I like Garageband. It's a great app. The softsynths sound great. The drum samples sound pretty good. It's easy to use, supports VST's, has some great editing features. It is limited however and eventually I'll have to drop it I'm sure. OSX doesn't come with it though it comes installed on your mac. So, should anything happen to your hard drive and you don't have a recent backup, goodbye Garageband. At any rate, it is limited and won't export to wave, only mp4 at 192Khz. Which is fine but still a comprimise. Still waiting for a universal binary of Cubase.
leedsquietman	Date: August 25, 2006 @ 12:04 PM Could be a long wait for the cubase binary but version 4 is coming soon , so there should be some great sales on stuff like SX3/SL3...screenshots already out for cubase 4 as it will be known (no SX/SL in the title), SL will be known as Cubase 4 studio http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=rec/product/images/page=1/base_pid=706533 These are some screenshots Steinberg leaked to Musician's Friend to get the hype going (crazy hype happening at cubase.net, first new version for 2 years)
dEaDmEtAl	Date: September 24, 2006 @ 2:48 PM Im not a huge fan of garage band, but i think it has some great drum loops. Also, its pretty easy to use, which is a plus.
triggerkitten	Date: October 22, 2006 @ 1:25 AM i actually really enjoy it for drum sequencing. with a little patience, it's super smooth for perfecting a basic beat with little details over a long timeline. i started out using a lot of loops, but now i barely use any. once you get the midi aspects of it down it's a brilliant bit of software just for that, especially if you really want to have your own sound.
leflaw	Date: October 22, 2006 @ 4:25 PM anybody try garageband 3?
dafendabenda	Date: June 9, 2007 @ 8:19 PM i like it cuz its the only software i have other than cakewalk
leedsquietman	Date: June 9, 2007 @ 9:31 PM best thing about garageband.... I don't have to use it because I run Ableton Live 6 and Cubase SX3
officernarc	Date: June 10, 2007 @ 4:51 AM well, for a program that comes with the mac, it's pretty cool. i've used it for recording, and as far as writing drum loops with, it's really easy. i've used it to write songs with, and it's pretty decent, what with all the patches. the shitty thing that i've found is that i've started to be able to identify when someone's used garageband loops to write music with, and honestly, it sounds cheap. often times, i will hear garageband loops in advertisements and will suddenly be filled with rage, because i'm so much better at disguising them. seriously though, it's a decent enough program, but it just sounds flat-out cheap, sometimes.
Mojosnake	Date: June 10, 2007 @ 9:07 PM the best thing about it is it's all i got