Dylan's information on Garage Band

Gareg band is a creative programme provided by Apple Macintosh' (which we have in school, and at home where i can personally use it). It is used to create compositions from a classical, full orchestra peice, to an synthed-based pop music. The Apple website describe the application as 'Your own recording studio', it has been created for people to learn to play an instrument, write music, or a song. To make things more helpful for me, I bought a plug in USB piano keyboard which i could use to play rather than using the mac keyboard (I can use the keyboard to play other instruments such as strings, woodwing, etc).

As i had decided that i was going to write an orchestral peice of music including strings, piano and woodwind (under the influence of Danny Elfman and David Newman), I had to think whether i was going to record it myself or use Garage Band software instruments to play it on. Since i don't own a full orchestra and cannot actually play most of the instruments, I have had to resort to Garage Band, which produces a much clearer quality- however sounds less realistic.

The instruments i would potentially use on Garage band are:
-Orchestral strings
-Hollywood strings
-Reflective strings
-Lunar strings
-Piano
-Piano on stage
-Woodwind

The decision was that i choose to use Orchestral strings (Garage Band do not provide specific strings instruments like Cello, Violin, Viola etc... but we have the ability to change the pitch so I don't have to worry about getting the specific instruments to play). The piano plays the lead role in the peice of music, being the first instrument to introduce the composition.


Here is a picture of what the application looks like:





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