No ability for sheet music

[jfg@forum]

A lot has been said about the omission of the ability to export a midi track. Another large omission for both pro and student is the inability to show your midi tracks as notes on staffs. Yes I know this is an entry program but serious teachers of music would never integrate this program into their assignments.

[crenz]

For those teachers, they could complement their lessons with Finale Notepad -- a free version of Finale.

[h'biki]

Originally posted by jfg@forum
A lot has been said about the omission of the ability to export a midi track. Another large omission for both pro and student is the inability to show your midi tracks as notes on staffs. Yes I know this is an entry program but serious teachers of music would never integrate this program into their assignments.

For classrooms of about 20 machines, GarageBand is about $7 a pop. So cheap, that it wouldn't MATTER whether you integrated it into an assigment.

And of course, Apple would rather schools move to Logic Express - which makes far more sense on far more levels.

You get what you pay for.

[Grimace]

garage band is in NO WAY a tool for most music composition classes. Sibelius 3 or (if you're unlucky Finale 2004) is the proper tool for that.

If you are in an electronic music class, Soundtrack might be more appropriate. GB is not a one-use-fits-all application.

[kanker]

I think that at the elementary and early secondary school levels, Garage Band could have an amazing impact. Even if it's just one Mac in a music class as opposed to a Mac lab, a collaborative class composition project would do wonders to introducing kids to composition, arranging, playing, even engineering, production and understanding the depths of the parts (instrumentation/arrangement of said instrumentation) that exists in music. You can't look at all things through grown up and professional's eyes. This program could honestly have an immeasurable impact on music classes and music education in the earlier grades. Just MHO of course.