Apple Symphony Orchestra JamPack for GarageBand (Mac Only)
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.
Symphony Orchestra also provides you with more than 30 of the most important orchestral software instruments to play, including:
Strings
In your orchestral string section, you’ll find first and second violins, violas, cellos, double basses, and a concert harp, as well. And thanks to GarageBand, you can control not only the dynamics and expression of each instrument but such articulations as staccato, tremolo, and trills, as well.
Brass & Winds
The ever-popular woodwind and brass sections include flutes, oboes, lovely French horns, trumpets, trombones, and tubas, among others. Play any as solo instruments or, for a richer sound, as an entire section. You can even control the playing style of individual instruments.
Percussion
Now’s your chance to play a wide selection of percussive elements: bass, snare and field drum; cymbals, gong, and bells; the woodblock and still others. You can also try your hand at a full range of pitched percussion instruments, including timpani, celesta, xylophone, marimba, and the glockenspiel.
Keyboard
Your Symphony Orchestra also comes with new keyboard instruments, as well. They includes a Steinway grand piano, harpsichord, and a heavenly church organ.
