GarageBand 3 Hits The Streets
I'm sure you've heard that Apple's GarageSpin 3, er, GarageBand 3 is out. Many of the new features involve beefing up podcasting options. Some of the new features include:
- Insert images/photos
- More sound effects, instruments
- Speech enhancer
- iWeb (web publishing)
- iChat (conference recording)
- iMovie scoring (sync audio to video clips)
- Enhanced media browsing
Pretty cool. Granted, if all you're interested in is creating music, there isn't a big difference from GarageBand 2. Podcasters, however, will kill for this app. Unfortunately for GB2 users, no upgrade price is available; you'll have to buy the entire iLife '06 suite.
Some nice first impressions:
TUAW: GarageBand 3: First Impressions
MacInTouch: GarageBand 3: Reader Reports
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Comments
I'd say the video scoring feature is BIG -- in the educational market, bigger than the podcasting thing. And it's all the more reason to gripe that Ableton Live doesn't have a video window. (The excellent ReWire-based ReVision app on the Mac from Granted Software, now part of plasq.com, is broken under current OSes.)
Still waiting for my copy. ;-)
Posted by: Peter Kirn | January 30, 2006 11:16 AM
Peter,
You're absolutely right, great point. We talk so often about music production tools reaching unsigned bands, etc. What about music video production? That's going to become huge awfully fast...
Posted by: MikeB | January 30, 2006 11:50 AM