GarageBand '09 Reviews

With each version of GarageBand, Apple tries to explore a different angle, hoping to bring in a new audience. With GarageBand €™09, the new lure is guitar and piano lessons€"nine basic lessons for budding musicians as well as a handful of optional ...

Lessons are well presented and move quickly toward learning songs ; multiple views in lessons ; guitar amps and stomp boxes are intuitively presented and sound good ; Magic GarageBand supports recording ; interface reorganization makes it easier to ...

No MIDI control of stomp boxes ; can't have more than one GarageBand project open at a time ; no improvement in notation printing from last version

Veteran GarageBand users who've already mastered their axes aren't left out of the mix. Guitar players now have the opportunity to play through five newly modeled amplifiers and a host of stomp box audio effects. Players who were frustrated by Magic ...

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A personal 'recording studio' in Apple iLife, GarageBand '09 allows you to record, edit and mix songs to CD quality. You also teach yourself to play an instrument with the help of some celebrity tutorials (such as Sting). GarageBand also gives you ...