1. Garage Band

2. Outline
• GarageBand: What is it?
• History of GarageBand?
• On what type of PC’s it exists in?
• Who can use it?
• What are the Tools?
• What are the features?
• How can you use it? (Video)
• Bibliography

3. Garage Band: What is it
• GarageBand is a software
application for Mac OS X and iOS
that allows users to create music or
podcasts.

4. History of Garage Band?
Who create it?
• developed by Apple under the direction of Dr. Gerhard
Lengeling, formerly of the German company
When was created?
• The application was announced during Steve Jobs’s keynote
speech at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco
on 6 January 2004.

5. On what type of PC’s it exists in?
• Mac OS X
• iOS

6. Who can use it?
• Everyone can use this tool, but specifically
teenagers and adults who are fascinated by
music
• who are interested in music

7. What are the Tools?

8. What are the features?
Audio recording
Virtual software instruments
MIDI editing
Music lessons

9. Audio recording
GarageBand is a streamlined digital audio workstation
(DAW) and music sequencer, which can record and play
back multiple tracks of audio.
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10. Virtual software instruments
GarageBand can play realistic, sampled instruments,
used for creating songs or playing music live using over
100 sampled or synthesized instruments, which can be
played using a USB or MIDI keyboard connected to the
computer, or using an on-screen virtual keyboard.
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11. MIDI editing
GarageBand can import MIDI files, and offers
piano roll or notation-style editing and playback.
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12. Music lessons
A new feature of GarageBand '09 is the ability to
download pre-recorded music lessons from
GarageBand's Lesson Store for guitar and piano.
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13. How can you use it?
Video
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14. Bibliography
Apple - GarageBand - Learn to play music and record on your Mac. (n.d.). Apple.
Retrieved November 24, 2011, from
http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/what-is.html
Apple – iPad 2 - Play and record music with GarageBand. (n.d.). Apple. Retrieved
November 24, 2011, from
http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/apps-by-apple/garageband.html
GarageBand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia. Retrieved November 24, 2011, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GarageBand
lockergnome. (2010). How to Use GarageBand. Retrieved November 24, 2011, from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtLB-KnDKm0
TechSmith. (2011). Jing. Retrieved November 24, 2011, from
http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html