Chapter 1
Introducing GarageBand for Macs and iDevices
IN THIS CHAPTER
Finding out what GarageBand is
Checking out what you can do with GarageBand
Discovering what you can’t do with GarageBand
Exploring the differences between the Mac version and iOS and iPadOS versions
Checking requirements
Taking a sneak peek at the recording sequence
When GarageBand was introduced at Macworld Expo in January 2004, Apple CEO Steve Jobs informed the audience that one out of two adults play a musical instrument but that almost none of them have recorded themselves playing.
Why not?
Because before GarageBand came along, recording live music decently was just too complicated. It required expensive and hard-to-use software and even more expensive and equally hard-to-use hardware, as well as a basic understanding of audio engineering.
GarageBand changed everything. If you want to record yourself singing ...
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