Garageband now Free?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

That's what the app store says. Who knew? More importantly, who cares?

Seriously, how good can it be if they're giving it away for free now?

[James Steele]

That's what the app store says. Who knew? More importantly, who cares?

Seriously, how good can it be if they're giving it away for free now?

Saw that on the App Store. Hey... don't go down that "logical" path. After all, Mavericks is free, too, right?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Well, I found it because I'm going through all my apps to see what needs updating. Quite a few have updates. So many that I've stopped listing them here. Compressor stopped working as did a few others but Time Machine restored the errant files and so far I think every app is a go. That's pretty amazing.

[James Steele]

Hmmm... maybe I'll stay back on Snow Leopard for a bit longer. How bad was Lion? I might take it in gradual steps...

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I skipped Lion and went straight ti ML. I loved it and only had a few updates. I don't recall that any were paid. Going to SL was different and I had to update Adobe $tuff. Ouch!

But Mavericks is really quite nice. I'm finding it hard to pull myself away from the computer sometimes because it's really an enjoyable experience. kind of like when i got my first Atari.

Just the fact that so many apps are conforming to the OS tells me that some care went into the release. And lots of small little enhancements like if you drag a weblink to the desktop, select it and hit the spacebar, the "preview" comes from the web. You see the page in action, not just the "link" indicator. I keep finding little things like that and it makes me smile. It's the best OS ever IMO.

[Michael Canavan]

That's what the app store says. Who knew? More importantly, who cares?

Seriously, how good can it be if they're giving it away for free now?

It's OK, it records audio fine, it has restrictions on the amount of tracks you can record, and it's pretty limited. Funny thing is just last week I got paid to take a Garageband "Song" and translate the loops into something not quite so canned sounding. So I bought the version right before this one!
Thing is in Logic you can extract MIDI files from Garageband loops, this was really useful in the above mentioned case, as I didn't want to have to learn the single note seemingly random rhythm of the techno bass line.
So yeah in my case Garageband is useful, and I'll probably have to upgrade to Logic X as well since my old version of Logic 8 doesn't want to authorize properly in Mountain Lion.

[twistedtom]

Garageband is a nice toy, I use it on my iPad the most.