Wowsa! I just installed and played around with GarageBand, the new music-making application from apple computer, and it's very very cool. I'm not really the uber-musical type, but I still had fun pissing away a few hours putting together some funky beats.
If you are at all interested in making your own music you should definately give it a try. (A macintosh computer is required of course). |
| The Pundits Say (30 replies)
| I wonder if there are any PC versions/equivalents of it. I did a brief look but nothing seems available. I figured this was an obvious app but never found one. | | |
| I WAS WONDERING IF THERE WAS A PC VERSION, AND IF SO PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL. THANKS | | |
| I NEED A PC VERSION OF GARAGEBAND! email me if u know of 1 ( my email beven_82@hotmail.com ) | | |
| me too!!! anybody know anything about a PC equivalent to GarageBand? cheers :) | | |
| oh yeah, if anyone knows about this subject, please email me. thank youuuu :) | | |
| Me too.....had the chance to play around with it on the Mac....but I want it on my PC | | |
| omfg ive been searching for one forever and ima keep looking this sucks ass! | | |
| There isnt really a pc version! ive looked alot! :( unfortunately, all u can do is buy one of the really exp programmes like logic or cubase, or buy a mini mac or something....(what im doing). they cost about £350, but i think it'l be worth it, u can always sell it on ebay later when ure done with the programme! | | |
Apple will never release one for pc.. then there would be no use for ppl to go buy a mac..
it is evil.. and twisted! | | |
i agree that they are evil and twisted. but im sure that someone out there is prolly working on an illegal conversion... atleast i hope so... i want garageband or an equivalent also
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| Even if there isn't a garageband for PC, if you find some other software that lets you throw out some music, email! | | |
macs kick ass. garageband rules. get rid of your crappy windows pc and get a mac
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powerbook g4 1.5ghz 12" 512MB 60GB | | |
| u can all go try out Acid Music Studio 5.0 or something. you fats | | |
| Yeah me too I was checking for this kind of software and someone told me to try Band in a box. He said to me that we can do the samething that with garageband but i cant find it anywhere on bittorents sites. If you ahve this software email me please. | | |
ive recorded with audacity, and it is very basic and bad. the expensive programs arnt what your looking for either because they are very complicated to use. garageband is extremely easy to use. you guys are out of luck. if your making shitty demos then audacity works. haha
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i WISH there was a GarageBand for pcs.....i hate mac. i got the chance to play with it at school, but now im home, and have no garagw band
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| As a musician/producer, garage band is a very simplied music-making application mostly for kids/non-musicians to fool around an user-friendly. For you PC ppl who are looking for something similar as Garage Band check out Reason 3.0 by Propellarhead; it does exactly what Garage Band does except its actually a high quality studio product used by lot of producers who can't afford on million dollar studio products, but acts like one on your computer that is just as good of a replacement as the real things, or even better!!! The program costs about $500 to get, so you're still out of luck if you're poor. | | |
I can't believe no one has mentioned FL Studio 5. That is the single most awesome music program ever for PC. It is insane. I use it all the time. It has instruments, effects, MIDI, mixing, everything you can think of.
It is by far the best. It is also WAY easier to use than Cubase or Soundforge or any of the other ones. Seriously. I knew nothing about how to use any of these programs, but FL Studio has such an easy layout and everything it is easy to get into. I cannot recommend it higher.
http://flstudio.com | | |
| Yeah seriosly...there relly needs to be a PC version of this thing....like now...for me | | |
| actualy reason is way better than garage band. Its pretty close because of its straight forwardness, but because it comes with soft synths and samplers and a sequencer and effects units and virtual drum machines and audio tools and dont forget another similarity to gargage band its wonderfull land of presests | | |
| let me restate that. Garage band is much lower in value and reason 3.0 is much higher. But because of its straight forwardness and presests that feed to the sequencer, its close. | | |
| macs are good for people who only like one thing about computers.SIMPLENESS! But for people who like flexibility and the sciences of computers just stick with pc's. I like pc's. I could probably make just about anything work by changing the files and programes i dont fully know how to program but im learning some c++ and c theres also a software synthesis language or something but its pretty boring because you can just creat noises who would want to do that for the rest of your life. | | |
| i have audacity. in future music there like IT ROCKS!But truly its a lame mp3 editor and creatin noises on it are way to linear plus limitid | | |
| i downloaded karma fx. But because its truly a beta file its extremely unstable. Every vst host i have said the files are corrupted or the vst host will just crash | | |
Everybody reading this should be aware that many of the comments about competing packages are probably written by the company that is selling those packages. Covert SPAM if you will.
The fact remains that there is no Garage Band equivalent program for PCs. Apple has designed an incredibly powerful, easy-to-use, and elegant program that nobody else has been able to rival.
To all those people who have spouted out anti-macintosh insults I laugh at you. The macintosh computer experience is a thing of beauty. Garage Band is one example of Apple's excellent design and implementation skills. The Mac OS X operating system embodies those exact same qualities. I spend a lot of time working on computers and using a Macintosh makes that time much more enjoyable. Everyone who has used Windows knows what a piece of crap it can be. I urge everyone out there to come and join those of us who live a better life: get a Macintosh computer.
I'm a computer programmer (I created the awesome downloadable game Lux) and I can tell you that Macs are capable of everything that Windows computers are. From word processing to email to web browsing to highly technical stuff (Mac OS X is a UNIX with all associated tools), the Mac can do it. Don't be afraid of change. You know Windows sucks, and there is a way out. There's a better place: Macintosh. | | |
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