17 Facts About GarageBand

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GarageBand is a line of digital audio workstations developed by Apple Inc for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS devices that allows users to create music or podcasts.

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GarageBand is developed by Apple for macOS, and was once part of the iLife software suite, along with iMovie and iDVD.

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3.

GarageBand was developed by Apple under the direction of Dr Gerhard Lengeling.

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4.

GarageBand 5 includes a redesigned user interface as well as Project Templates.

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5.

GarageBand 6, known as GarageBand '11, is part of the iLife '11 package, which Apple released on October 20, 2010.

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GarageBand is a digital audio workstation and music sequencer that can record and play back multiple tracks of audio.

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7.

GarageBand offers the ability to record at both 16-bit and 24-bit Audio Resolution, but at a fixed sample rate of 44.

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8.

GarageBand includes a large selection of realistic, sampled instruments and software modeled synthesizers.

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9.

GarageBand offers global editing capabilities to MIDI information with Enhanced Timing, known as Quantizing.

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10.

Also of note, MIDI sequences edited or created in GarageBand cannot be exported to other DAWs or programs without first being converted to audio.

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11.

GarageBand gave permission for anyone to share their personalized remix with the world.

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12.

GarageBand has no functions for changing time signature mid-song though the software does now allow a tempo track to automate tempo changes.

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GarageBand comes with a wide range of different instruments for the user to use.

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14.

GarageBand includes 5 guitars: an acoustic guitar, three electric guitars, and a distortion guitar.

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15.

GarageBand received an overhaul of design coinciding with the reveal of the iPad Air on October 22, 2013.

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16.

In July 2021, GarageBand received multiple new Sound Packs with loops and instruments from many producers such as Boys Noize, as well as two Remix Sessions from Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga that allow users to remix their songs.

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17.

On January 6, 2011, GarageBand was made available independently on the Mac App Store in addition to iPhoto and iMovie.

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