I’d love to hear your thoughts, particularly if you are (or know) musical novices interested in the program. ![]() Getting a handle on how GarageBand does among users, particularly newcomers, has often been a challenge. It looks like Apple has given its UI a nice coat of paint, too the whole app looks a bit sleeker, more in line with the Pro apps.īut I’m not only interested in what I think. It’s still a drop in the bucket, but since the idea is to give people a taste of music learning, it makes sense. Sure enough, Apple adds some 22 lessons, including genres like various classical contributions (at last) and blues. ![]() They seem a good way to get people into playing. Many onlookers, myself included, complained when Apple dropped the ball with providing more of their nicely-produced lessons. Those games do a good job of “quizzing” you mechanically, and beyond that, you really need a human teacher. It’s funny, though, I wonder if features like this make sense in an age of Rock Band. A bit like the light-up keyboards of years past, you get interactive feedback on how you’re performing. GarageBand ’11 also extends Apple’s commitment to making people better players: Guitar amps and stompbox adds more models, with twelve amps (seven of them new) and fifteen effects (five of them new), as with Logic.Here, there is a definite possibility of overdoing it, but as with anything else, you have to use the function judiciously and artfully. Groove matching extracts a groove from one track and applies it to the others.(This stuff hasn’t yet become the rhythmic equivalent of AutoTune, partly I think because there’s not any “quantize all” feature.) ![]() It’s a nice feature, not only for cleaning up parts but for creative work.
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