Some useful info about bugs.
To be honest, Apple succeded in creating one of the easiest and powerful DAW I’ve ever seen. Still there’s much to fix and add.
Firstly, during the usage of a pedalboard plug-in, «Imaging» plug-ins refuse to work. They do not even show up no more. Moreover, while creating firstly an "Imaging" plug-in and then a pedalboard, the sound becomes really awful and guitar begins to distort as hell.
Secondly, there’s a lot of work needed on Drummer. It would be just great to be able to control its speed (1/2 and 2x) even when it follows the rhuthm of the other track. For example, when I make a metal-styled song, I create a lot of samples and then, when I want to make the Drummer to do smth like «fast cardan kick» and a snare on every fourth click, and attach it to a guitar track, I suddenly realize, that snare is too fast (every second click) and I just can’t do anything about it! Of course, I can detach the Drummer from a guitar, but the tracks will not be grooving the same way, you know. And yeah, cardan kick style is a MUSTHAVE for Anders! I can’t understand why it isn’t here yet.
And finally, I’d like to see a real-time controlled EQ, so I was free from manipulating with automation and could just record the changes in EQ.
That’s pretty all for my preferences and wishes.
All in all, GarageBand is awesome. It is easy, it is dynamical, it has a lot of different plug-ins, so you may not even need to download AU from the Internet… Yeah, by the way, lack of VST is pretty bad, cause there’s not too much AU plug-ins in the Net, but it’s not a big deal… One can create lots of different styles of music here, and everything sounds and works just as good as it is possible.
Except the guitars. They’re awful and sound the same way. But I hope Apple will add some more guitars, ‘cause there were lots of updates with synths, but nothing new in guitars I see. Yeah, I hope so. Please, make a guitar update!
That’s all I can say about GB. Rating is 4,4/5, which means 4 :D
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GarageBand, v10.1.1