The new GarageBand 10.0.0 - First Impressions

No more Movie Tracks (at least limited)

that is a pity - the movie track was great to get the music in sync to a movie.

New GUI (exactly like Logic)

New Smart Controls (from Logic)

One more reason gone to continue to use GarageBand.

New Drummer (from Logic)

That is great.

Edgar, can GarageBand now open Logic Projects, or is it still one-way?

-- Léonie

So what do we call it now? The "New GarageBand" or use its real name "Logic Express X".

Are you already workng on a new manual?

I just do not understand the thinking behind removing Magic GarageBand. It was one of the great features in the application. Find myself very disappointed in what has been done here. Frankly it has a gobbled together look and feel to it. As you say, as if someone took Logic Pro X and just threw things out to lighten it without actually thinking about the usability and usefulness for amateurs without musical training or using it for more fundamental audio creation functions than scoring.

I mainly use GB for Dragging and dropping instrumentals, play a little piano, and sing a song with multiple tracks of vocals...

MAIN ISSUE: What happened to the simple function of selecting a premade effect like "Live Performance" or "Male Vocal".

And then being able to see all the layers of plugins that make that effect and edit them / add more echo / the reverb slider / add new au plugins??

I have to just be missing it, there's no way they removed the ability to edit a vocal track in detail right?

Another few minor but very annoying issues are as follows 😟 :

1. Being able to set the snap count from 1/4 through 1/64 to be able to slide a track in a smaller scale to the left or right. See at the top on signature you can change it to 1/64 BUT when you turn on the the metronome it also clicks at that speed which basically sounds like the computer is about to crash...
2. I can no longer copy a small region on a track, and paste it to a different track where the playhead is.. THIS IS SO ANNOYING, now it paste's it on the same track that it was copied even if you highlight the track you actually wanted it pasted to... and if you just highlight the area you want to move and drag it to the new track it places it all offset instead of snapping to the playhead, forcing me to have to go in, find it and slide it to where it should have pasted in the first place. (waste of time)
3. The new UI is all over the place.

4. Not everyone is a "rock band" you can't just add some new drummer effect and say you have totally improved the program, in my opinion you ruined it.

I am a diehard fanboy of everything apple does and I hate the fact that the program i use most on my computer is now a burden to use, so it hurts me to be so upset and complain. But I couldn't help it. It is aweful and in now way done in excellence.

The only thing that I can respond to here is finding the echo and reverb, double click on the vocal tracks and go to EQ, voila!

btw, why do we have to buy the full version AGAIN? ***..

I'm not talking about the simple echo and reverb slider, im talking about adding the echo effect, to select the timing of it like 1/4, 1/2. and editing the volume / brightness / length of the echo

Everyone's needs and expectations are different and I can only speak for my own. The more time I spend with GB 10.0, the more I appreciate its approach. I have Logic 9, and I've been trying to decide whether to plunk down $200 for Logic X. Now I don't think I will.

When I work in complex apps like Logic, I become enchanted (preoccupied?) with the millions of options available for tweaking the sound. Hmmm... Which compressor? 10 different synths? All those delay plugins?

With the new Garageband, many of those choices are no longer available. Others find that to be frustrating but I'm finding it liberating. The Smart Control window is zen-like in it's simplicity and presentation. It offers only those parameters you'll probably need to adjust to get a near-perfect rendering. Nothing more. Season with the occassional AU plugin and you still have a broad pallette for shaping sound.

I have a demanding day job, so the little time I get to work on recording needs to be productive. It looks like Garageband 10.0 will facilitate that very nicely.

Hozay

P.S. The new interface really is beautiful.

Are you a musician? Do you play an instrument?

I do, Tom. Guitars, bass, some keyboards, and vocals. A long time ago I played out with bands. Now it's just me at home or jamming with old friends a couple of times a year. My kids are 8 and 10 and getting pretty good at piano and drums, so I play with them at least once a week.

Sounds like the perfect app for you and kids, and if you or they grow out of it, it will be an easy step to Logic Pro X.

Us non-musicians, who once had a great app that had it possible even for us to create music, have now been left behind. Unfortunately the solution for many will probably be simple piracy.

Us non-musicians, who once had a great app that had it possible even for us to create music, have now been left behind. Unfortunately the solution for many will probably be simple piracy.

Previously I used GarageBand in my lectures on Computer Graphics. It was a perfect tool, to allow my students to quickly assemble a soundtrack for the movies they made. I could show them the basics and get them started in only a few hours.

We used mainly the loops and the sound effects instrument, as well as the many ready made voices with vocal transformer effects.

I do not think, I will be able to use this tool any more - I would be forced to teach my students the basics of music theory as well.

Has the linkage to iMovie been completely broken?

They appear to have dropped exporting to MP3 as well. I'm not going to be able to use this anymore.

No direct linkage I can see. Only as described by leonie to import files that have been shared from iMovie. I haven't looked at going the other way, bringing GB into iMovie 11, the current version. (What a mess they've made of the version numbering.)

I too am saddened by the lack of imovie and podcast features. I was using GB weekly for our podcasts. now I have to find another program to do this. sad day indeed.

I too agree - what a disappointment. And I saw in another thread, that they do not offer us to perform a roll back! 😠

They took all the ease of use paired with the really advanced stuff you could do with 6.05 and turned it into a nightmare. All my previous work has more or lees gone down the drain.

I miss the ability to add delay, reverb, phaser, tremolo, chorus...ect into each individual track. Mastering and downmixing suddenly belongs to the past.

The session drummer might be a nice feature, but I haven't tried it out yet.

I probbably have to find another app to use, that offers the above features....[insert very foul language]!!!!

I miss my good old version of Garageband! I want it back

[Correction]

From the search window I found the old version - which I didn't delete, and it works nicely 😁 - wisely I didn't delete the old version. Now I can go to bed happy

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