Apple Garageband Jam Pack: Symphony Orchestra

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Product Features

• Find first and second violins, violas, cellos, double basses, and a concert harp, as well
• Include flutes, oboes, lovely French horns, trumpets, trombones, and tubas, among others
• Play a wide selection of percussive elements: bass, snare and field drum; cymbals, gong, and bells; the woodblock and still others
• Find new keyboard instruments

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0008GLGRM
• Item model number: MA319Z/A
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 10, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,410 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Product Description

With a symphony orchestra in tow, you just may have to spring for bigger quarters. But if you’re planning to conduct your own orchestra, you’ll want better acoustics anyway. Using Symphony Orchestra and GarageBand (or Logic Express 7, Logic Pro 7, or Soundtrack Pro), there are virtually no limits to the types of sophisticated music you can create. Taking advantage of the prerecorded Apple Loops (more than 2,000 in Symphony Orchestra), you can compose everything from classical music to movie soundtracks. Or you may want to lend some symphonic power to your pop, rock, or hip-hop arrangements.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific instruments for Logic or Garageband with some reservations, May 10, 2007

By	Ken Avent (New Market, TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've installed this on my Mac to use with Logic Pro and the instruments are terrific - great orchestral sounds along with a really good Steinway and some lovely organ sounds as well. While I don't use the loops they are very interesting as well and well done.

The instrumental sounds on these are really sensitive to velocity. For example, the brass sounds are wonderful at low velocities but the higher velocities are not good - too brash and the attacks are ragged. I'm a trombone player and if I played like that I'd not be happy.

Also, the strings seem to have a cresc built into the sample - not sure what that's about but it's disconcerting.

Having said all of that I'm still happy - the price is right.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Addition, June 7, 2007

By	Ron Budde "ronbud75" (Deshler, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After taking the time to get serious with garage band, I quickly found the need to get more instument voices for my uses. I play the music into garage band (record) with a M-Audio 66ES keystation (which I highly recommend) and found that there just weren't enough instruments to meet my needs for all of the tracks that I like to record. This product more than meets those needs, as it has a ton of instruments to use. I especially like how much more realistic they sound than the pre-loaded instruments in the original garage band. If you are more into using the loops, they are spectacular! They would work well as soundtracks for movies or slideshows, or as accompaniments to anything you want. This product is well worth the money and I don't feel as if I need to get any of the other Jam Packs. But that's just me........

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive array, October 6, 2007

By	Nolan Lind - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

With Garage Band's standard-issue synth patches and loops, it was hard to make new music without using the same sounds more than once. With these Jam Packs, I can get lost just finding loops to use - which is a really good thing! Definitely worth the money!