Eric and John discuss the four GarageBand 2 Jam Packs. With the introduction of GarageBand '08, there are now 5 Jam Packs available.
Duration: 26min 56sec
You can add even more incredible software instruments and Apple Loops to your mix using Apple's award-winning GarageBand Jam Packs. Check out Apple's audio experts Eric Thomas and John Danty as they introduce you to GarageBand Jam Packs, the ultimate way to add “talent” to your compositions.
Each of four different Jam Packs give you more than 2,000 brilliantly recorded Apple Loops covering a spectrum of music genres, adding more software instruments to your repertoire. Each is a great value at only $99. Jam Packs are easy to use, and they sound incredible.
An invaluable enhancement to GarageBand, Jam Packs can also be used by Logic Express, Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro, offering amateur and professional musicians alike a wide assortment of new sounds to stretch their musical creativity.
“Your band just got bigger with new instruments and thousands of new Apple Loops-all available in GarageBand Jam Packs.”
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John Danty,
Product Marketing Manager for GarageBand and GarageBand Jam Packs,
Apple Computer, Inc.
More sounds, more fun
Time to add more members to your band? No need to hire a talent scout or cruise the local clubs. With Jam Packs, you'll find all the talent you need.
Voices Voices gives you over 1,500 Apple Loops featuring professional soloists and choirs in multiple genres and styles. It also includes over 20 software instruments, including voices, choral ensembles, and amazing drum kits built upon the human voice and body.
World Music Recorded over the course of a worldwide expedition and featuring an unprecedented collection of world loops, ethnic percussion, exotic strings, and regional wood instruments, World Music captures the most authentic performances in dozens of countries, genres, and playing styles.
Remix Tools
The ultimate add-on for electronic, dance, hip-hop and rap for those who want to extend their dance floor vocabulary. More than 2,000 prerecorded Apple Loops let you build tracks with beats, bass lines and percussion. Want hypnotic patterns and riffs? This is the Jam Pack for you. Remix Tools comes with new synth instruments that you can use to enhance the Apple Loops you already use. You'll find 20 diverse kits in the most popular genres, from hip-hop and R&B, to trance, house and downtempo. You also get sound effects for every major genre, so you can add scratching, needle drops and other hip sounds to your GarageBand and Logic compositions.
Rhythm Section
A superb backing back for songwriters and vocalists. Of the 2,000 Apple Loops in Rhythm Section, half are hip drum beats and the other half are bass lines, chord progressions, guitar and keyboard riffs designed to support and enhance your performance. It also contains more than 50 software instrument presets you can use to perform rhythm and backing tracks with a variety of styles. Once you have the ideal studio sound down, you can select your favorite and save it as an Apple Loop, so your best band is always there when you need it.
Symphony Orchestra From the garage to the philharmonic, Symphony Orchestra gives you an orchestra in tow. Using Symphony Orchestra and GarageBand (or Logic Express, Logic Pro), there are virtually no limits to the types of sophisticated music you can create. Taking advantage of the prerecorded Apple Loops (more than 2,000), you can compose everything from classical music to movie soundtracks. Or you may want to lend some symphonic power to your pop, rock or hip-hop arrangements. As always, software instruments and loops from Symphony Orchestra can be combined with the other thousands of Apple Loops available in GarageBand or from other Jam Packs.
From playing hundreds of software instruments using your Mac to mixing the perfect song, you can have more control and more fun than you ever thought possible using GarageBand. Sure, playing alone is great, but with GarageBand, you have an entire backing band at your disposal. You can build musical compositions that impress anyone-even your new agent. So start getting more out of your music today with GarageBand. The world is waiting for your next big hit.
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