It’s Final Cut Pro X all over again (disclaimer: I liked Final Cut Pro X, but I totally understand how professional video people felt when it was released and had a huge feature set missing).
Even though I have the old version, students who like the course and buy a new Mac will get stuck on the new one. But why build a curriculum around a product I’m not excited about? One that I’m wary of updating? This was not an option either – I can’t passionately get kids excited about making music on a product I’m not terribly sure has a future. Of course, I could have just stayed on the old version – lots of smart people I know did exactly that. My projects were going to have to change big time to keep using GarageBand. Immediately I started noticing things were missing. Last year, after GarageBand 10 was released I installed it and started upgrading my projects for my beginner class. So fast forward 10 years and an entire career built in part due to GarageBand. GarageBand represented an actual accessible starting point for those of us who wanted to make music on the computer but had no good entry point. I didn’t know why you’d need things like track effects or bus groups because I had no idea what any of it meant. The software was esoteric and hard for outsiders such as typical educators like myself to understand. When I started teaching in 2004, GarageBand was released that year and basically no one taught Music Technology. I’ve been very vocal about my dislike for last year’s version, and some took it as a generic “OMG I hate GarbageBand” as if I won’t stoop to using it or something. Backgroundįirst of all, I had some good conversations with folks about GarageBand. Short version: It’s no WatchBand, but it’ll do.
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