GarageBand (codename: Defender) v1.0 Product Requirements
Email from Tim Wasko to Michael Darius
Email from Tim Wasko to Michael Darius with an excerpt from the product requirements document for version 1.0 of GarageBand (codename: Defender) within a year of Apple acquiring Emagic and Logic Pro.
From: Tim Wasko <wasko@apple.com>
Date: Wed, April 2, 2003, 2:38:07 PM US/Pacific
To: Michael Darius <darius@apple.com
Subject: Defender
Michael,
Here’s the broad strokes for the product description…
Defender will be Apple’s easy-to-use software application that enables novice musicians to create & record original music.
- Flowcharting and editing of external or software instruments
- Include professional software instrument, effects, and guitar amp modeling
- Ships with templates and musical themes (professionally produced starter content)
Features:
- Simple user interface designed for novice hobbyists
- Quick start & easy setup
- 100% native, no MIDI OUT supported
- MIDI recording via MIDI IN, editing and arranging using built in software instruments
- GM (General MIDI) compatible
- Digital audio recording, editing and arranging with non-destructive region based editing
- Real-time tempo/pitch matching of audio loops
AIF, WAV, MP3, Bumper AIF
- Search engine for locating performances by instrument, genre, mood
- A high resolution audio with up to 24bit/96k processed at 32bit
- 2 channel input output so one performance recorded at a time
- 2 channel output
- Integrated software instruments with large preset and sample library
- Integrated suite of FX plug-ins with large preset library
- FX suite includes guitar amp modeling and effects
- Audio unit host for instrument and effect plug-ins
- Sounds facilitate for easy selection of FX chains with presets, and software instruments
-Quantization of both MIDI and audio recordings (timing)
- Automation for volume, pan, FX, sounds and FX returns
- Structured Music Content (SMC) for easy creation of accompaniment tracks
- With SMC content, the user defines the musical style, the song parts (verse, chorus…) and the Chord changes
- Defender generates a complete accompaniment the user can play or sing to.
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