I have tried the GarageBand 2.02 upgrade download from the Apple site, but it looks for the original Garageband files in the /Applications folder and will not install. I sucessfuly restored Garageband before after my instrument files got corrupted when I added Symphony Orchestra Jam Pack, but I lost the info I had on restoring without the discs. Nonetheless, GarageBand Jam Pack 4: Symphony Orchestra (Mac, $99) stands out from the crowd (see Fig. Its Apple Loops supply enough recorded phrases to compose some respectable mood music. Its Apple Loops supply enough recorded phrases to compose some respectable mood music.

The big news for live performers is multi-track recording. Every track now has a 'enable or disable recording' option (just to the left of mute and solo). You can enable recording for up to eight Real Instrument tracks and optionally one Software Instrument track. You'll need an audio interface, a serious one for eight simultaneous tracks; someone who's got one, please let us know how well it works. There are more new features for live performers.

After you've recorded a track, there are sliders in the track editor to 'enhance' the timing (nudge the notes closer to a specified beat) or pitch (get monophonic notes closer to a true note, or an in-key note). This isn't like the Software Instrument 'Align to' button, which modifies the track; instead, it controls how the track is played. New king james version bible verses.

You can adjust the pitch of any region, the way you used to be able to transpose a Software Instrument region. (I'm not sure how you can now transpose individual notes, at least not in piano roll view.) There a new 'Vocal Transformer' effect with presets such as 'Male to Female', 'Down Minor Third', 'Chipmunk', and 'Monster'. Last but not least, when you adjust the tempo of a song, Real Instrument regions now speed up and slow down, just like loops and Software Instruments. (If you open an existing song, your purple regions will now be orange, and can't take advantage of these tricks.

If you join orange regions, the result is a purple region. Thanks to Jeff Tolbert, author of the 'Take Control' GarageBand e-books, for mentioning this in the Apple GarageBand discussion boards.) A song with several Software Instrument tracks used to lead to the dreaded message, 'Some parts were not played.' A Software Instrument track can now be 'locked'; the next time you play it, the track will be rendered ahead of time, making it very easy for GarageBand to play. A friend had a song with eight Software Instrument tracks and some drum loops, that always overloaded his PowerBook. When I took the song and locked some tracks, I could play it on my iBook without the play head ever changing color. The on-screen keyboard has a new friend, the 'Musical Typing' keyboard. You can control pitchbend, modulation, velocity, and sustain, all from your QWERTY keyboard.

You can control which octave you can play, but at any given time you only can play from C to the F an octave and a half up. I might not permanently retire MidiKeys. P4m890t m2 drivers for mac. The classic keyboard can still be resized to be wider, but now it can also be resized vertically so the keys are bigger. Mac' LeVitus pointed this out at Mac Observer.) Software Instrument tracks can now be displayed and edited in piano roll format or music notation.