The Entire History of GarageBand

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A video essay about the history of GarageBand, Apple, Steve Jobs. Learn that backstory of this little program that took over the world.

0:00 Backstory
0:57 How was GarageBand made?
1:37 Steve Jobs announcement
2:13 iMac Revolution
3:07 GarageBand 1
6:23 GarageBand 2
6:58 GarageBand 3 and beyond
10:27 iOS version

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[nomad]

I remember using garage band in grade school and middle school. I had no idea what a DAW was or even how music was even recorded. The only thing I knew was that techno was made with synthesizers, and people went to professionals in studios. I had no clue some pros like justice or grimes actually used garage band as a way to make music at home. I didn't understand the power of the laptop until I heard Skrillex at a rock festival in 2010. Before any tutorials were made public or at least professional tutorials. I remember your best bet was to get lessons at dub spot if you wanted to get into dubstep. Unfortunately they were busted for a scandal. But when I learned how growls were made, and how everything worked I realized that Skrillex was a fucking nerd. This shit looked like rocket science. Still does. The sounds this dude could make was like Eddie van Halen with his guitar. Looked easy, until you attempted to make a simple track. But luckily there are amazing people making the process much easier. But man. I remember the first time getting FL studio and I was like: 😶. And then every tutorial is like, so let's make a modulated fm wavetable subtractive binary pan sub bass, with a queer harmonic treble post op growl. Which should be easy 😁

[matt_nyc_audioengineer]

Hey man, first of all, thanks for all the great videos! I enjoy watching these when they come out. I do have a small issue with this video tho. The term, non-professional and the idea that GarageBand wouldn't be something a professional songwriter should use keeps getting thrown around. This is incorrect. I am a professional mixing and mastering engineer and I work with SEVERAL professional musicians and producers who use GarageBand to record all their songs. These sound just as good as any other project I work on. Would GarageBand be a DAW I would recommend to a professional mixing or mastering engineer, NO loll! However, a producer or songwriter would have no issues making pro-level music in GarageBand. It's very capable for production and recording.

Again, not criticizing you in the least! I really enjoy the content and think your videos are informative, entertaining, and really well put together. I just know from personal experience that some of the claims being made aren't entirely true. That's all.

[mrpotatohead]

I used to make 🔥 🔥 🔥 beats in Garage band

[paul-orkin]

As many flaws as apple got as a company, this type of visionary stuff makes them awesome

[genuinefreewilly]

Decades ago I used hardware sequencers, Ataris for midi compositions and then migrated to Macs and used Micrologic which was essentially a sequencer the best virtual one in my opinion. Back then you would have hardware instruments and keyboard workstations etc... I never bothered using the piano roll as the score window and musical notation was easy to understand and use. It was condusive to work and save individual measures in its proprietary file format, that was also its weakness, as porting a project to a general midi would be a mess to clean up porting over to other computers
I wouldnt say Garageband is for everyone, its for those who can afford expensive Mac computers.
I dont think things have really evolved that much as most of us compose with the midi piano roll and midi hasn't really changed for almost 40 years.
Anyways interesting history

[superrfilms]

could you make a history video of LMMS next?

[keller_]

Dope content as always my man! Love to see a different angle from 'Garageband sucks and is for kids'

[PESHOPIKATA]

Do magix next one of the first music soft i started in the early 2000s and it looked like the best thing for me back then !

[DerekPower]

James Ferraro used GarageBand to make Far Side Virtual, one of the cornerstone albums for the vaporwave/underground EM scenes of the 2010s and onward.

I used GarageBand in part to make a track called 夜总会电晕 [or “Club Corona”]. The bass and percussion came from there and was exported into Cubase where it was finished there with additional instrumentation and final mixing.

[TheZauer]

Is there any chance you would be planning to do a video on the history of Apple Loops? I think those are a subject that deserves its own video, as they were a large part in how many GarageBand users started out, and with their further inclusion in Logic have spawned famous songs that have used an Apple Loop as a foundational sample.

Ever since using GarageBand extensively from 2004-2008 as a kid, I can still recognize an original Apple Loop in other media at times, spanning from hit songs to movies to anime to video game soundtracks and library music. Tracking down maybe some of the session musicians and producers who were involved in making specific Apple Loops that have been famously used elsewhere could make the video more than worth it in my opinion, maybe even worthy of something more documentary-style. But even a simple 10-minute video like this, with internet sources and audio metadata would still make for a great video.

[creepmike]

I heard Lil Peep used GarageBand to produce some of his songs and the drums from the Rihanna song Umbrella is a GarageBand drum loop.

[blairmichaelhogan]

Great vid! I couldn’t live without iOS GarageBand at this point. I use it for everything from starting ideas when I don’t feel like being in front of a computer, to using Live Loops to make backing tracks that I can cue live with a simple Bluetooth switcher without needing to involve a laptop. Another big use is a keyboard sound module. If I ever need an auxiliary keyboard setup, a decent usb midi controller and an iPad and I can have a decent vintage keys set up right in GarageBand with wurli/rhodes/organ/mellotron etc. I already owned an iPad before I realized it was just sitting on there with so many potential uses!

[StannyObelisk]

Fun fact: Justice produced their “Cross” album in GarageBand