Details about the new GarageBand Jam Pack: Voices

Yet another minor Apple product announcement that made it under our radar was a new Jam Pack for GarageBand: Voices. No, it isn't samples of Britney Spears, John Mayer and Adam Duritz - it's a collection of over 1,500 new instruments that fall under the categories of Drum and Percussion Instruments, Choral Ensembles, and Soloists. The focus, of course, is on filling up your tool belt with samples of professional instrumental soloists and choirs covering a wide variety of genres and styles.

If you want more details on the pack, iCompositions has rummaged through and detailed exactly what you get in this new Jam Pack. Strangely, you get quite a bit more than what Apple advertises - the pack actually contains 1701 loops - and it takes up nearly half the specified hard drive space as well; instead of taking up 3 GB, all those loops only took over a mere 1.7 GB.

As with most other Jam Packs, this new Voices pack is available in the Apple Store for the standard Jam Pack price of $99.00.

View Tags

Source: http://www.icompositions.com/news/article.php?pid=251

Categories

Audio iLife Software

Yet another minor Apple product announcement that made it under our radar was a new Jam Pack for GarageBand: Voices. No, it isn't samples...

Add a Comment

Sign in »

6 Comments

Filter by:

Dale

Do these Jam Packs come with more effects and plug-ins, or are they literally just audio samples?

August 16 2007 at 2:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

fernando

The smaller HD requirement is down to Apple using the new, CEF format for their Apple Loops. This is something they didn't really announce at all, but is potentially a pretty big change for the format.

August 15 2007 at 9:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

krye

I wish they would come out with a death metal/hardcore jam pack so I can do some really hard/heavy stuff.

August 15 2007 at 9:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Racum

Apple could at least put some small audio clip with some samples in JamPacks page, that would help many people (including me) decide to buy a pack.

August 15 2007 at 5:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I'd like a demo even if I'm not willing to pay $99 for .mac. Not even a download and install. Just the preview clips they used to have on the web would be nice. No sale.

August 15 2007 at 4:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kevin Crossman

What I'd like to have seen was more radio sounds, sound effects, and such for the podcasting features of GarageBand. Or at least a "Jam Pack" that I could use with the previous version.

The download from .Mac was a nice addition, but I want more. :-)

August 15 2007 at 4:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply