GarageBand

[Grade]

I'm wanting to get into production and was wondering what peoples views of the above is.

As I have a MBP it seems a waste not to use a DAW I already have just to get started on with a few AUs downloaded as I assume the factory sounds ain't great.

Has anyone / does anyone use it and can anyone recommend any good AUs to start?

Looking to make Bass music/house

Thanks

[Luuk]

I do not recommend using Garageband. Try Reaper, it's free.

[jayo]

I do not recommend using Garageband. Try Reaper, it's free.

Why not?
GarageBand seems like a great place to start and hone your skills while learning how to build tracks, and learn the terminology and options available to you. Yes I'm sure it's somewhat limited in what you can do compared to the big daw's, but should be a great place for someone to get their feet wet. And I'm pretty sure many an award winning songs have been produced in GarageBand.

[ksandvik]

You could start in GarageBand and when you know its limitations it's time to move to something more powerful. You could always import the GarageBand projects into Logic and as the Mac App store price is $199 it's a no-brainer.

GarageBand is very good as a quick way to put together songs and ideas. And if you know production work you could do really good final material in GarageBand. If someone claims the sound output from GarageBand is sub-par, usually they don't know much about sound production work. It's just that most of us want to splice/cut/tweak/manipulate and so on and so on so we navigate towards more complex environments.

[Tarekith]

GarageBand is great if you're just starting out, go for it.

[Grade]

Thanks a lot guys. My plan was to use GB then move onto logic as you can import the projects across.

Does anyone know of any good free AU that I could download for synths and fx just to get a bit more variation in the sound other than GB instruments.

[Tarekith]

Head over to http://www.kvraudio.com, they have a sortable list where you can use free as a criteria.

[photojojo]

The way I see it Garage Band is the new Logic Express since Apple dumped it when they dropped the price of Pro to $199.

[grazz16]

Garage band is MASSIVELY underrated imo. I was in your shoes when i first started out; just thought "what the hell, lets give this a shot". And i was blown away by how easy it was to use and the sheer amount of stuff i could accomplish with it. That being said, you will outgrow it, but by all means give it a go to start.