Garageband

macProVideo.com has released GarageBand 103: Podcasting In GarageBand, a new Garageband training tutorial.
This tutorial teaches valuable podcasting skills including recording and editing podcasts, using GarageBand’s built-in DSP effects to compress and EQ your voice to give it that big podcast sound, making enhanced podcasts with images and URL links listeners can click, and publishing your […]

Peace Love Productions has announced its first collection of Apple loops, entitled Essentials Vol 1. There are 1,595 royalty free loops in 16-bit, 44.1kHz .aif format.
Genres include: Rock, Country, Folk, Ethnic, Hip Hop, Ambient, Trance, House, Techno, Happy Hardcore, and Jungle.
Essentials Vol 1 is available as a download and DVD for the price of $149 […]

iZotope has released Goldbaby Productions’ XRB, a collection of drum grooves and playable kits for use with iZotope’s iDrum and Apple’s GarageBand.
XRB includes 256 iDrum Kits with preset grooves for each, for a total of 2,057 individual drum grooves. In addition, each of the grooves are included as Apple Loops, which can be browsed by […]

Digital Music Doctor has released a new video training course, GarageBand 3?€”Know It All!
The course covers all major aspects of audio and MIDI recording, editing, and mixing using Apple GarageBand 3 pro audio software.
The course contains 11 modules and is organized into 5 sections:

There is a Quick Start section which provides a grand tour of […]

Metric Halo has introduced a new product, ChannelStrip for GarageBand, at the Musikmesse trade show in Frankfurt, Germany.
Metric Halo’s ChannelStrip, originally a TDM plugin exclusively, has
been an integral part of the sound of myriad Grammy-award winning, Gold
and Platinum records, hit TV shows and blockbuster movies. The first
plugin to bring classic large format console-style channel […]

Macintosh users wanting to get the most out of GarageBand 3 - for creating tunes, recording voice or instruments, or creating a podcast - can now find real-world help about each topic in the latest editions of three electronic books in the Take Control series:

Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand
puts new and intermediate GarageBand […]

Zero-G has announced the arrival of the ACIDized WAV versions of their Best of Zero-G compilation packs (previously released in Apple Loops format):

PRO PACK (11,000+ samples)
DANCE PACK 1 (11,000+ samples)
DANCE PACK 2 (9,000+ samples)

The fourth title, WORLD PACK (9,000+ samples), will be released in April 2006.
Features:

An average of over 10,000 loops and samples per title […]

MacWorld Update: Apple has announced iLife ‘06, a major update to Apple’s suite of home multimedia applications, including iWeb, a simple way to make websites, blogs and podcasts, and GarageBand 3, which now includes podcasting support.
iLife ‘06 features iPhoto 6 with new printed books, calendars and cards, and Apple’s innovative new Photocasting for sharing photos […]

iCompositions, a community for sharing music made with Apple’s GarageBand, has partnered with Perimeter Sound Arts to give away what they describe as “the largest package of free Apple Loops in history.”
The collection, available exclusively for registered users of iCompositions, consists of 264 loops and joins existing free packages available from iCompositions, bringing iCompositions members […]

Apple has released a free online seminar, Making Music on the Mac with Garageband.
The 1 1/2 hour seminar is designed to introduce Garageband and how it can be used to turn a Mac into a musical instrument and recording studio.
The seminar covers:

Playing Garagebands virtual instruments
Using Apple Loops to build a “band”
Creating compositions with multi-track recording […]

Perimeter Sound Arts has released 2 new loop sample CDs: Brain Danse, produced by Jeff Rhodes, and an upgraded reissue of the original Abstract World Fusion, which has been out of print for the last year.
Their sample CDs are available in both Acidized .wav format for Windows, and Apple Loop format for GarageBand, Soundtrack, Logic, […]

Zero-G has announced the fourth title in their series of Apple Loop collections is now available, Dance Pack 2 For GarageBand. It joins Pro Pack , World Pack & Dance Pack 1 for users of Apple’s GarageBand, Soundtrack, Logic Pro 7, Logic Express & Final Cut Pro!.
Description
To create DANCE PACK 2, we hand-picked the […]

M-Audio has announced iControl, the first dedicated hardware controller specifically designed for Apple’s popular Apple GarageBand music software.
“M-Audio has a vision of empowering anyone interested in making music with the tools to do so easily,” says Tim Ryan, General Manager at M-Audio. “iControl represents M-Audio’s commitment to GarageBand as a creative platform. iControl provides a […]

Zero-G has released World Pack for GarageBand, which comes in at over 9,000 samples and instruments. In addition to hand-picking the best loops and samples from a wide range of successful ‘world/ethnic’ products from their back-catalog Zero-G have added approximately 3,000 new unique loops and instrument samples from Africa and the Middle East.
All that content […]

Nine Inch Nails has released a Garageband version of their new single The Hand that Feeds. It is available as a free download from the NIN site.
It’s a massive 72mb collection of Garageband resources, straight from Trent Reznor.
Garageband users can check it out at the NIN site.