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This may seem like somewhat of a stretch, but I'm going to go ahead with the analogy anyway: GarageBand is the multi-function printer in the third-floor office that is iLife '09. With the addition of yet another feature, the '09 iteration of Apple's music-making app has become the ugly, multi-purpose mess that is today's printing, scanning, copying, and faxing behemoth. While such devices are handy and save space, they all suffer from the same inherent problem: they are all, at best, average at every one of their functions.

So it is with GarageBand: it's unwieldy, ugly, and lacking the functionality that any serious user needs or wants. Traktor pro 2 catalina. It tries to be a combination of Apple's own Logic, Sibelius or Finale music notation software, Practic Musica, and Band-in-a-Box in one cheap package—and in one unified interface.

Some may say I'm being too critical of the application: 'It's meant for consumers, and meant to be easy to use. It's not supposed to have the same features as pro apps.' That may be the case, but does that preclude it from critical analysis? Let's take a look.

Getting Started

On opening GarageBand for the first time, a window appears and invites you to choose what type of project you would like to create. This window is split into five primary sections: New Project, Learn to Play, Lesson Store, Magic GarageBand, and iPhone Ringtone. It also has an option to view recent projects. Each option has several choices within, each of which is aimed at helping you to easily create some type of music. We are looking at what is new to the software in this review, so we will largely skip over GarageBand's digital audio workstation, podcast, and ringtone functionality.

Magic GarageBand

Magic GarageBand isn't a new feature—it made its debut with version 4.0 in iLife '08—but we'll touch on it anyway. Magic GarageBand allows you customize a (computer-automated) band to play along with. The application allows the user to chose from one of nine genres, including Blues, Rock, Jazz, Country, Reggae, Funk, Latin, Roots Rock, and Slow Blues, and chose the instrumentation. When a genre is selected, the designated instruments appear on a stage ready to play a pre-determined song made up of different sections depending on the genre. For Blues, you simply get an introduction and three verses with a 'true grit' guitar, 'riffing' bass, 'roadhouse' drums, 'southside' organ, and harmonica. Each instrument can be swapped out for another genre-appropriate one; for instance 'riffing' bass can be swapped out for a 'walking' bass or 'picked' bass, allowing the user to alter the sound from the stage view. Instruments can also be switched out randomly with an aptly named 'Shuffle Instruments' button.

This automatically generated accompaniment track can be recorded over with software instruments via a MIDI input, with voice or other instruments via a microphone, or with any instrument via a line-out and an audio interface. If you use the poorly named 'open in GarageBand' feature (we are, after all, already in GarageBand), the composition and your recording will be exported into the editing portion of GarageBand, where you can further tweak things like instrument volume and even form and pitch (up to an octave in either direction). The tracks sound realistic and the graphics are attractive, but that's about the only nice thing I have to say about the feature.

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Magic GarageBand seems slow to load, and it takes too long to change instrumentation. Additionally, the flexibility just isn't there to make this feature all that useful. If I'm going to play along, or even record over backing tracks, I want more options. Band-In-A-Box by PG Music really does this well: not only can you switch out instruments for other instruments and genres for other genres, but you can program in your own chord changes. This latter feature is, in my opinion, paramount for any piece of play-along software.

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Magic GarageBand has a lot of potential, but currently it doesn't offer the features necessary to make it a useful product. In its current state, it’s a toy and nothing more than a way to use the loops included with the application without any real work from the user.