Garageband

[stingrayfan]

After fighting with Cubase on a PC, I'm loving using Garageband on the Mac. Any other fans out there?

[YouMa]

Cubase has alway been awful as is logic i also think protools is very overated,i use ableton live it has a lot more features than garageband,and is cool when using vst synths and things.

[Golchen]

I absolutely love Garageband. My recording needs are pretty simple and it does a brilliant job. An added plus for me is that I can also record video on my mac laptop. I record both at the same time and then drop the improved sound file onto the video.

For a freebie bit of software it is totally amazing.

[Shire]

I'm a fan too. Its just so easy to use. I used to use Logic in a studio where I worked and its just unnecessarily difficult

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

When I got my (first) MacBook a few months ago I didn't really look at garageband as I though it was like those stupid looping things you get for PCs from from PC world, but at the weekend I watched the lynda.com video training & can't believe how much stuff its got built-in. The guitar amp modelling is decent, there's a midi hammond organ built-in and it even does auto-tune type stuff. I've been messing around putting together a track using loops to get the hang of it and I love the way everything can be done so quickly with the minimum of messing around. It looks like I might as well unplug the cubase studio 4 dongle as everything I need to do can probably be done in GB.

[s_u_y_*]

[quote name='Golchen' post='491519' date='May 18 2009, 04:16 PM']For a freebie bit of software it is totally amazing.[/quote]

+1!

I bought my Macbook specifically for Garageband. It's a really cool piece of software.

[stingrayfan]

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='491586' date='May 18 2009, 05:08 PM']The guitar amp modelling is decent, there's a midi hammond organ built-in and it even does auto-tune type stuff.[/quote]
The keyboard samples are great - just hooked an electric piano up via a USB Midi lead and played a Fender Rhodes straight off!

[Simon]

GB is great for the very basics of putting something together and recording.

Pro Tools all the way for me.

[dr.funk]

[quote name='YouMa' post='491509' date='May 18 2009, 04:09 PM']Cubase has alway been awful as is logic i also think protools is very overated,i use ableton live it has a lot more features than garageband,and is cool when using vst synths and things.[/quote]

I am quite attached to Cubase VST 3 or 4 as it was the only recording software I had for ages and did the job nicely, made some fun music with it. SX3 on the other hand was a pain.

I got a Lite version of Live 7 and love it! Perfect for jamming to and you can get plenty deep if you need to, also really good for on the fly looping, speaking of which I can't wait to try Live 8.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Here's a little something I enjoyed putting together with GB. Its great fun to use - like playing with lego.
[attachment=25571:garagebandthing.mp3]

[stingrayfan]

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='493207' date='May 20 2009, 12:59 PM']Here's a little something I enjoyed putting together with GB. Its great fun to use - like playing with lego.
[attachment=25571:garagebandthing.mp3][/quote]
That's neat - I like it!

[Zoe_BillySheehan]

garageband is all i use
1: cause its easy!
2: cause its free!

check out the tracks on my myspace in my signature below..there made using garageband

Z
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[The Funk]

[quote name='Simon' post='493129' date='May 20 2009, 11:38 AM']GB is great for the very basics of putting something together and recording.

Pro Tools all the way for me.[/quote]

Same here.

I like Garageband but I don't think it exports mixes very well.

[xgsjx]

[quote]I like Garageband but I don't think it exports mixes very well.[/quote]

That's the only problem I have with GB. However, you can do all the work in GB & export each track individually (which appears to export fine for some reason) & then pop em all into reaper to mix & polish. I've been doing this & find it a much better result (& I'm deaf!).