GarageBand Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra
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GarageBand Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra
There aren't individual instruments
Written by JG
12-Dec-2009
I bought this hoping to layer instruments and create compositions as if it were a real orchestra. This is not the case. Solo instruments are almost non-existent and the brass and woodwinds sound horrible. There are no Saxophones. This software is so limiting and not worth buying. Only buy it if there is some other CD that comes attached with a solo instrument package.
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GarageBand Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra
DON'T BELIEVE THE SAX ON THE BOX!!!
Written by JH from Stroudsburg
18-Jun-2008
Bought this primarily for the woodwinds (I'm a sax player) and admittedly didn't check well enough. I guess the pinheads who made the orchestra jampack didn't realize that some symphonic works do indeed include saxophones, but then WHY CLEARLY SHOW A TENOR SAX ON THE BOX!!! (it's right there, clearly behind the harp!). I feel ripped off. The horns are mediocre, although they get a better sound in their appropriate tonal range (so I suppose I can't whine about a tinny sounding trumpet on notes even Marsalis couldn't hit).
But seriously Apple, I thought you were better than this, what I consider to be borderline bait and switch advertising. Where are the saxes?247 of 305 people found this useful
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GarageBand Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra
Disappointing
Written by ZZ from london
18-Feb-2008
No solo strings, and the string ensembles are very cheap sounding - not the warm and lush sound I was looking for.
The Steinway piano that is included sounds ok, but unfortunately it is missing some vital velocity layers.124 of 214 people found this useful
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GarageBand Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra
System requirements
Written by LR from Mississauga
22-Jan-2008
Be absolutly certain that your computer and garageband meets the system requirements.. You need garageband 2 or higher, it says Macosx 10.3.9 or higher but really it means 10.4 because if you have 10.3 you wont have the right garageband. If you dont youll install it and 10 gigs of memory will be gone into unusable files. Be certain before you buy it that you meet these requirements because apple will not refund and rip you off completely, as usual.
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GarageBand Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra
sounds more like my local high school band than the London Philharmonic
Written by MH from Jacksonville
29-Sep-2007
I bought this expecting to be able to record symphonies and brandenburg concertos but the strings are to slow even at the highest keyboard velocity sensitivity! Try playing a fast scale and you can hardly hear anything with any of the strings. The harpsichord sounds like a clavichord. The piano sounds nothing like my grand steinway. Those recordings you heard on the Jam Pack page are not the software instruments in this pack. Those are recordings of the loops which are audio recordings of real instruments! The only thing that sounded nice and real were the woodwinds but there is still a slight delay when you hit the keys on these instruments. I recommend to anyone that is serious about recording classical music to buy the Garritan Personal Orchestra and the Kontakt Player. This will work with Garageband, Logic and some other products.
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GarageBand Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra
yo apple! read this!!!
Written by BA from los angeles
3-Jan-2007
well, im really bummed. i got this pack looking to work up an arrangement for string quartet for a song im working on. i would think this is not an uncommon thing to look to th e"orchestral instruments" jam pack to do. well, it can not be done! i cant believe it. no solo strings? i wish i had researched more, but it seemed like such an obvoius sound to include. all the sounds are great. i know time was taken to get sweet tones and differant attacks with a wide variety of instruments, but no solo strings?
im hoping the right apple rep reads this and decides to offer a group of solo strings downloadable off the site to those who bought this pack and still need solo strings!!! please?1196 of 1537 people found this useful
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