I was given the challenge to find GarageBand for Windows by my daughter. She had used GarageBand on a Apple at her school. I’m also hoping to use a product like this for working on my music (piano and drums). So this is my journey. Hopefully this will help you too if you have the same challenge.
Requirements:
- Take existing songs and mix them together.
- Take short clips from songs
- Adjust the tempo as needed
- overlap songs
- Create new songs with a variety of inputs
- Midi input from Keyboard
- Midi input from Electronic drums
- vocal input from mic
- other existing songs (like the mix above)
- other input from mic
- Easy to use
- Variety of output choices
- CD
- mp3
- Inexpensive
- Works on Windows XP with 512meg of Ram
Please add some comments if you have any suggestions.
Thanks.
October 18, 2007 at 7:37 pm |
[...] Had a chance to do some searching for some products that may work for my GarageBand for Windows requirements . I found the following products that may fit the [...]
December 17, 2007 at 7:29 pm |
Try SUPER DUPER MUSIC LOOPER BY Sonic Foundry!
January 6, 2008 at 5:11 pm |
Take a look at FLStudio at http://www.fruityloops.com. The FruityLoops or Producer edition just might do the trick…
March 24, 2008 at 4:56 pm |
Fruity Loops Studio is probably the best out there right now. I wanted to get GarageBand too at first, but FL studio turned out to be much better. You can get it for $50-70 at http://www.academicsuperstore.com
April 18, 2008 at 4:19 am |
Your problem with Audacity is you didn’t have anything selected! When you want to edit certain sections, you select the part you want to change, THEN go to the effects menu. Try that.
April 26, 2008 at 8:27 pm |
it sucks, theres nothing that can compare to the real apple mac garage band
May 8, 2008 at 7:43 pm |
garage band = FL Studio + Adobe Audition 3
April 9, 2009 at 3:50 pm |
Sonic Foundry invented this technology years ago!
They invented ACID and everything from garage band to fruity loops is a direct copy. Fruity Loop from cakewalk(roland) got it’s legs in Europe and came back to the states. Graphically garage band looks good but, it’s the same old stuff. A semi pro light program. Sony bought Sonic foundry for 18 million dollars and has push Acid to be a full service program like logic, digital performer, pro tools etc. These programs are the most fun and the easiest way to put an idea out!! my 2 cents
May 1, 2009 at 5:58 pm |
Mixcraft is what you want. It’s just as easy to use as garage band for mac and look almost exactly the same. Mixcraft FTW!