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Apple releases GarageBand 3.0.2
Apple has released GarageBand 3.0.2 via Software Update, the latest version of its music creation and editing software. Of this release, Apple notes: “This update to GarageBand addresses issues with video handling, podcast exporting, and importing QuickTime markers. It also addresses a number of other minor issues.”

Apple today released GarageBand 3.0.1 via its software update utility and on the Web, the latest version of the company’s music creation application. Apple says this update “addresses an issue with Podcast production using the French or Finnish localized versions.” [Thanks to MacMinute reader Michel El Meouchi for this news tip.] Read More

Apple has released GarageBand 2.0.2, an update to the company’s popular music creation software via its Software Update utility and on the Web.

Apple has released GarageBand 2.0.1, an update to the company’s popular music creation software. Apple said the update addresses issues with duplicating tracks, playhead snapping to grid, joining software instrument regions on adjacent tracks, making precise adjustments to volume and pan settings, and converting Software Instrument Apple Loops based on drum sounds into Real Instrument Apple Loops.

Thomson Course Technology has teamed exclusively with Barnes and Noble to offer users of Apple’s GarageBand software a package of learning products called “GarageBand Session Starter.” The package includes Thomson’s GarageBand Ignite book and it’s GarageBand CSi interactive learning CD-ROM. The two products are normally sold for a combined US$49.98, but are now offered at Barnes and Noble for $29.99, and even less through Barnes and Noble’s Online store.

Apple today released GarageBand 1.1, an update to its music creation software.

Course Technology today announced the upcoming release of its GarageBand learning tools. “GarageBand Ignite” (US$19.99) and “GarageBand CSi Starter” ($29.99) will be available April 28 and May 1, respectively. “Both the book (328 pages) and interactive CD-ROM (2.5 hours) are available for purchase separately and target beginning users of Apple’s GarageBand.

Apple has released GarageBand 1.0.1, a minor update to its new music creation software. According to the release notes, the latest version clarifies specific alert dialogs regarding system performance. The 1.0.1 update is free for owners of the application, which sells for US$49 as part of iLife ’04. The software also comes loaded on new Macs.

An article by Leander Kahney on Wired today looks at the overwhelming and rapid success of GarageBand, Apple’s very recently released music-recording software. “The amount of creative energy that GarageBand is creating is staggering,” said musician and producer Chris Bell in the story. “Apple has created a monster… As a pro musician/producer, I love this app. It puts the fun back into creating.

“The GarageBand name hides a certain irony—it’s hard to make a song sound any way but slick and seamless in this program,” writes Bob Massey of the Washington Post. “But this same relative sophistication (especially all the effects-processing options) opens up some fascinating possibilities for anybody with a keen ear for sampling and hip-hop production values. You can have a lot of fun here.”

“Music, as any teen in a garage band will tell you, should be as simple to make as it is to listen to. That hasn’t always been the case with musicmaking software though,” writes Chris Talor for TIME magazine. “There had to be an easier way. Now Apple has found it with GarageBand, part of its US$49 suite of Mac-only iLife applications released last week. As the name suggests, GarageBand is aimed at amateurs.

“GarageBand isn’t the first computer program that lets you compose music and remix existing songs — but it might break new ground in how simple it makes the process,” writes Jon Fortt of the Mercury News in his review of the new music creation software.