Next step up from Garageband?

[BubbaVO]

Looking for a more sophisticated package of options and tools. What's the next step up?

[Hackubus]

There's a bunch of ways to skin this cat, but I'd recommend the Digidesign Eleven Rack. It comes bundled with ProTools AND you get the nifty rack/amp simulator.

[mathman]

There is also logic express. what version of Garageband are you using?

[Uncle Thor's Hamer]

Cakewalk makes several excellent products. I use Guitar Tracks Pro. Their Sonar lineup is even more powerful. They have to run under boot camp since they aren't Mac OS compatible. I run on an old windows machine so I have no knowledge on how well it runs under boot camp.

Audacity is supposed to be a very good DAW and it is free. They have a Mac OS version.

[Devnor]

Logic 9 of course. Full of great sounding plug ins and the new amp pharm. I'm still running LP8 just because I'm too lazy to upgrade Any DAW product has issues, Apple isn't immune but my little system is very stable and the limiting factor always seems to be...me.

[MrGuitarguy]

I'm all about Pro Tools here, but I would recommend Logic as all your existing Audio Unit plugins should work fine. I have a couple of friends that use it and they really dig it. It also has built in delay compensation (important down the line) and should work with nearly any interface.

[geoff_hartwell]

Logic Pro 9 is pretty awesome.

Even the express version would be a big step up from GB without dropping 500 bucks.

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