GarageBand
:This article is about the software application. For information about other music-related topics, see Garage band.
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GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create a piece of music. It is developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers.
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Software - Apple Computer - Macintosh
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The application is not aimed at professional musicians, but is intended to help amateurs produce music easily. The application comes with 1,000 pre-recorded sampled loops, and 50 sampled or synthesised instruments which can be played using a MIDI keyboard connected to the computer, or using an on-screen keyboard. Additional loops and instruments are available in the four GarageBand Jam Packs, separate products offered by Apple Computer; each expansion pack costs $99 USD and adds more than two thousand loops and dozens of virtual instruments.
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MIDI - Keyboard
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GarageBand can only be purchased as part of iLife, a suite of applications intended to simplify the creation and organisation of users' digital content. In addition to GarageBand, iLife includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes.
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ILife - IPhoto - IMovie - IDVD - ITunes
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The application was announced during Steve Jobs's keynote speech at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco on 6 January, 2004; musician John Mayer assisted with its demonstration.
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Steve Jobs - Macworld Conference & Expo - San Francisco - 6 January - 2004 - John Mayer
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Version 2 was announced at the (2005) Macworld Conference & Expo on January 11, 2005. Major new features included the abilities to view and edit music in Musical Notation form, to record up to 8 tracks at once, and also to fix timing and Pitch of recordings. It shipped, as announced, around 22 January, 2005.
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Macworld Conference & Expo - January 11 - 2005 - Musical Notation - Pitch - 22 January
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GarageBand was originally developed by Emagic, developers of the professional musical program Logic Audio, which was acquired by Apple in July 2002.
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Emagic - Logic Audio - July - 2002
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