Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer

Re:Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals w... by jedimastert on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:35PM (#20528695)

Honestly, Garageband is much better than people give it credit for. T-Pain still makes a lot of his beats on it. A lot of tutorials can be found for most major DAWs. FWIW, almost all of the producers that I personally follow use Ableton, as well as myself. I really enjoy it. If you're really strapped I can also recommend Bitwig; a lot of the skills and knowledge transfer.

But the theory should transfer to any major DAW and you really don't need much else to get started. You barely need any more plug ins than the built-ins

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Re:Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals w... by dharma1 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @06:19PM (#20530365)

I've used Logic most of my life, but Garageband is pretty great these days on iOS/mac. And you can transfer the projects to Logic if you want to take them further.

A couple of niggles (can't set start/end points for loop playback/recording, no midi learn, relatively few keyboard shortcuts) but for a free portable DAW it's superb. Supports a lot of i/o too, I've used interfaces all the way from 2 track IK duo pro to 16 channel Soundtrack desk with it.

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Re:Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals w... by cholula on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:04PM (#20529019)

Madlib produced all of his most recent album (Bandana) on an ipad, probably garageband. I definitely hadn't given the software enough credit until learning that.

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Re:Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals w... by kennywinker on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:11PM (#20529756)

Grimes’ first album is also all garageband. Great entry point for music making.

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