| Garage band comes with your mac and has a few hundred basic loops. It's really, really easy to use, but its features are limited compared to a mixing and editing application like ProTools or pro composition software like Cakewalk or Acid. Even a free audio editor like Audacity has more in the editing department.
It is however really good for quick and dirty recording and laid back fun composition. It can record from an input, system or otherwise (I've recorded stuff on my system mic and put them up on craigslist as audition samples, and people where astounded that I could get decent sounding drum and bass stuff out of a eraser sized microphone) and you can use it with a USB keyboard. They also sell loop packages with like 2,000 extra loops for like $30 each. I was thinking about getting the drum loops package myself, since that is all I use it for, drum tracks for bass noodling.
Last edited by DudeistMonk : 09-10-2008 at 09:13 AM.
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