Apple Introduces Jam Pack

Apple today introduced JamPack, an add-on music content package for Apple’s revolutionary newGarageBand music creation software, announced today as part of iLife ‘04.Jam Pack triples the music content for musicians and aspiring musiciansalike with over 2,000 additional loops including many for hip-hop andelectronica; over 100 additional software instruments, including a concertgrand piano and 12 string guitars; over 100 additional pro-quality effectspresets; and 15 additional guitar amps, including surf, grunge, heavy bluesand atmospheric.

“GarageBand is like having over 50 musical instruments, a studio ofprofessional musicians and the best recording engineers right at yourfingertips”, said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “And Jam Pack takes GarageBand even further, with even more professional-quality instruments, loops,effects and guitar amps”.

GarageBand turns the Mac into a high-quality musical instrument and completerecording studio, allowing both novice and seasoned musicians alike toeasily play, record and create amazing music using a remarkably simpleinterface. With GarageBand, recorded performances, digital audio and loopingtracks can easily be arranged and edited like building blocks to create asong. GarageBand comes with more than 50 software instruments, including apremium-quality grand piano, that can be played and recorded with any USB orMIDI music keyboard. Over 1,000 professionally pre-recorded audio loops canbe combined to make complete songs or backing tracks. Vocals and liveinstruments such as guitars can be recorded digitally via microphone oranalogue input. All these tracks can be edited and mixed together with over200 pro-quality effects presets, including pro-quality effects such asreverb and echo, and the built-in expertise of professional recordingengineers. With GarageBand’s advanced modelling technology, guitar playershave access to some of the most revered vintage amplifier sounds with 6guitar amps, including clean jazz, arena rock and Indie. GarageBand can also export completed songs to iTunes for burning to CD, encoding in MP3 or high quality AAC, transfer to iPod or for use in the other iLife applications.

Pricing & Availability:

Jam Pack will be available on January 16 for a suggested selling price of £69 (inc VAT) at the Apple Store and AppleAuthorised Resellers. GarageBand will be available on January 16th, as part of iLife ‘04, for a suggested selling price of £39 (inc VAT) through the Apple Store and Apple Authorised Resellers. GarageBand will also be included with all new Macs. An iLife Up-To-Date upgrade package, which includesGarageBand, is available to all customers who purchase a new Mac on or afterJanuary 6th that does not include iLife ‘04. The iLife Up-To-Date package is available for a shipping and handling fee of £15 (inc VAT).

GarageBand and Jam Pack require Mac OS X v10.2.6 or later, QuickTime 6.4 orlater, a Macintosh computer with PowerPC 600MHz or faster G3, G4 or G5processor, 256MB or more physical RAM and a 1024x768 or larger display. A G4or G5 processor is required for GarageBand software instruments.

 

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