![]() Read more: GarageBand for iPad & iPhone reviewįeatures: Logic is Apple’s premiere music creation tool, and for good reason. Supported third-party hardware: Core-Audio devices and MIDI controllers. Supported third-party plugins: Audio Units. Supported formats: AIFF, CAF, WAV, AAC (except protected AAC files), Apple Lossless, MIDI and MP3. Mixing, however, remains a weak spot, with no traditional mixing console view that can make setting levels a little slower than you’d find in the likes of Logic. There’s even a suite of music lessons, both for guitar and piano, and artist lessons that feature the likes of Rush and Fall Out Boy that’ll have you playing (and recording) megahits in no time. It also offers a sound library featuring a huge variety of software instruments and pre-made packs from the likes of Mark Ronson, as well as iOS and iPadOS companion apps that add to the ways you can create.Įase of use: All of Garageband’s features are readily accessible from the get-go, and you can find even more if you dig just beneath the surface. Not only has Apple’s free option grown into an excellent DAW, it’s got a surprising amount of depth and utility, allowing for up to 256 tracks. Still shipping with the outdated Pro Tools 8 at the moment.Features: While GarageBand’s nature as a pack-in may dissuade you from considering it as a professional audio suite, we’d recommend giving it a try.Routing line inputs through the preamps won't suit everyone.DSP gives us monitoring reverb and a nice guitar tuner.Sounds good, with better preamps than previous Mboxes.The Mbox Pro presently costs £660 $899, again with Pro Tools 8. There's also S/PDIF, MIDI and word clock I/O. To these it adds some more advanced monitor control features, such as Mute and Alt Source buttons, and the ability to select up to three speaker outputs. Low‑latency monitoring is handled using built‑in DSP, which can supply monitoring effects, and the Pro also replicates the Mbox's Multi, Dim and Mono buttons. Two separate headphone outputs each have their own volume controls. Four of the former have mic preamps, and two of these can also accept DI'd electric guitars. Sample rates up to 192kHz are supported, and there is a total of eight inputs and outputs. The Mbox Pro connects via Firewire rather than USB, and, unlike its smaller siblings, requires mains power. This is great if you have old analogue synths that put out weird and unpredictable levels, less good if you want to accurately transfer a stereo signal from another source. Also worth noting is that, as on previous Mboxes, the line inputs also pass through the preamps. As with many inexpensive preamps, though, the gain controls are not very linear, and the last 6dB of gain or so seems to come in about half a millimetre of travel. I was able to use my ancient Beyer ribbon mics to record vocals and even fingerstyle acoustic guitar, and was pretty pleased with the results. ![]() ![]() They have a punchy sound, with a 'forward' quality that seemed, to me, to slightly emphasise the upper mids, and, best of all, they have a decent amount of clean gain. So it's pleasing to report that those built into the Mbox 3 are not bad at all. It would probably be fair to say that earlier generations of Avid and Digidesign hardware, at least in the LE range, were not known for their top‑flight preamps.
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