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Apple Garageband Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra
From: Apple Average Rating: Binding: DVD-ROM Format: DVD-ROM Label: Apple Model: MA319Z/A Number of Discs: 1 Platform: Mac OS X Release Date: January 18, 2006
Features:
Find first and second violins, violas, cellos, double basses, and a concert harp, as well
Include flutes, oboes, lovely French horns, trumpets, trombones, and tubas, among others
Play a wide selection of percussive elements: bass, snare and field drum; cymbals, gong, and bells; the woodblock and still others
Product Description: GarageBand Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra lets you add the emotional stirrings of orchestral music to your own productions. Build orchestral themes using over 2000 prerecorded loops in different styles and tempos, including symphonic, chamber, and solo performances. You can also use loops individually to enhance songs in any style or genre. Enhance your song using a wide selection of pitched and unpitched percussion instruments including timpani, bells, gongs, celesta, xylophone, marimba, and more
4 stars installed with no problem- only wish it had solo strings for violin, and a slide trombone- other than that lots of stuff and fun!
Impressive array With Garage Band's standard-issue synth patches and loops, it was hard to make new music without using the same sounds more than once. With these Jam Packs, I can get lost just finding loops to use - which is a really good thing! Definitely worth the money!
A Great Addition After taking the time to get serious with garage band, I quickly found the need to get more instument voices for my uses. I play the music into garage band (record) with a M-Audio 66ES keystation (which I highly recommend) and found that there just weren't enough instruments to meet my needs for all of the tracks that I like to record. This product more than meets those needs, as it has a ton of instruments to use. I especially like how much more realistic they sound than the pre-loaded instruments in the original garage band. If you are more into using the loops, they are spectacular! They would work well as soundtracks for movies or slideshows, or as accompaniments to anything you want. This product is well worth the money and I don't feel as if I need to get any of the other Jam Packs. But that's just me........
Terrific instruments for Logic or Garageband with some reservations I've installed this on my Mac to use with Logic Pro and the instruments are terrific - great orchestral sounds along with a really good Steinway and some lovely organ sounds as well. While I don't use the loops they are very interesting as well and well done.
The instrumental sounds on these are really sensitive to velocity. For example, the brass sounds are wonderful at low velocities but the higher velocities are not good - too brash and the attacks are ragged. I'm a trombone player and if I played like that I'd not be happy.
Also, the strings seem to have a cresc built into the sample - not sure what that's about but it's disconcerting.
Having said all of that I'm still happy - the price is right.
Excellent Deff if you are looking for good samples and soundbanks you need this JamPack. Nice orchestra instruments!
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