GarageBand for PC

★ ★ ★ GarageBand Overview

What is GarageBand?

GarageBand is a music-making app that turns your iPad and iPhone into a full-featured recording studio and a collection of Touch Instruments. It allows you to create music anywhere you go, even if you have never played a note before. With Live Loops, you can have fun creating music like a DJ. You can play a variety of musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard, build grooves inspired by classic electronic drum machines with the Beat Sequencer, and add virtual session drummers to your song. You can also use Smart Instruments to sound like a virtuoso and create a song anywhere you go.

Software Features and Description

1. Use the Sound Library to download additional free instruments, loops, and sound packs created by some of the biggest producers in the world.

2. GarageBand turns your iPad, and iPhone into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go.

3. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play keyboards, guitars, and create beats that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before.

4. ** Requires free download from GarageBand Sound Library.

5. * Requires compatible third-party Audio Unit Extensions apps from the App Store.

6. *** Multitrack recording requires a compatible third-party audio interface.

7. Plug in a guitar or bass and play through classic amps and stompbox effects.

8. Use a Touch Instrument, microphone, or a guitar to instantly record a performance, with support for up to 32 tracks.

9. And with Live Loops, it makes it easy for anyone to have fun creating music like a DJ.

10. And then share your song with friends and family.

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Download and install GarageBand on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
GarageBand	Get App ↲	96,639 4.07	Apple

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install GarageBand app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using GarageBand on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "GarageBand"
The search will reveal the GarageBand app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once GarageBand is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including GarageBand.
Now enjoy GarageBand on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	Apple	4.07	2.3.17

Get GarageBand on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	Apple	96639	4.07

Download on Android: Download Android

GarageBand functions

- Live Loops for creating music like a DJ

- Multi-Touch keyboard for playing a variety of musical instruments

- Alchemy Touch Instrument for playing and recording

- Beat Sequencer for building grooves inspired by classic electronic drum machines

- Sound Library for downloading free instruments, loops, and sound packs

- Virtual amps and stompboxes for recreating legendary guitar or bass rigs

- Audio Unit Extensions for recording performances from third-party music apps

- Virtual session drummers for adding realistic grooves to your song

- Smart Instruments for sounding like a virtuoso

- Up to 32 tracks for recording, arranging, and mixing your song

- Multi-Take Recording for recording multiple times over any song section

- Professional mixing effects, including Visual EQ, Bitcrusher, and Overdrive

- 24-bit audio resolution for recording, mixing, and exporting a song

- iCloud Drive for keeping your songs up to date across all devices

- Custom ringtones and alerts for your iPad or iPhone

- Sharing your songs using email or to social media sites like SoundCloud

- Remotely adding new tracks to your Logic Pro project from your iPhone or iPad via iCloud.

✔ Pros:

- GarageBand is a great app for beginner music makers.

- The digital percussion and strings are easy to use.

- The app has a variety of cool effects like compression, EQ, reverb, and echo.

- GarageBand is a good app for making beats.

☹ Cons:

- The app lacks wind instruments like saxophone, flute, and trumpet.

- GarageBand erases all the effects added to a track as soon as the mixer is closed.

- The app forces notes to snap to the grid, making it difficult to record certain rhythms and beats.

- The sounds of some instruments like violin, French horn, and brass section are delayed to the full attack of the sound.

- The app doesn't have sounds like saxophone or marching percussion instruments like snare, bass drums, and quads/quints.

Top Pcmac Reviews

I want to use wind instruments, but they’re not there!

By YourLittleSylveon (Pcmac user)

I’m a beginner music maker, and I’ve been playing in a school band for a lot of my life, so I grew up loving wind instruments like flute, trumpets, etc. but as of July 10, 2019, there doesn’t seem to be an option to get them. I searched for extensions to add to this app so that I may use the more traditional instruments, but I couldn’t find anything. All I have is the computerized digital percussion, some strings I don’t know how to use (yet), and a piano which I’m unable to really use because on my phone screen, the accents and attacks on the instrument are very spontaneous and annoying. It’s a good app, don’t get me wrong, but no matter where I look, I can’t find any instruments I know what to do with in a composition (i.e. wind instruments). There also doesn’t seem to really be a good way of making music box music in it no matter how hard I try (I try using the Sweet Bells on the piano setting, but even after messing with the sound settings it still doesn’t feel right). The reason I point these things out is because I want to create more traditional or fantasy-based music. It would be nice to be able to create some ethereal music without struggling to find the instruments. Other than that, the app is wonderful and intuitive. I intend to keep using it, just so long as I have access to wind instruments and hopefully a music box-like instrument. Thank you for your time!
Needs to be solved

By AJ_money maker (Pcmac user)

So I have been using this app since the iPhone 5s. And I have a major complaint it is a major book for those who are using voiceover with this app. It’s a book Apple needs to take care of. I am a voiceover user myself and I have been having this issue. Whenever you would like to add compression, change your EQ, add reverb, or echo, or any really cool affect like reversing the track, changing the speed so if you were trying to make those rap style high hats, or adding other great effects. Garage band will not let you, as soon as you close out of your mixer it erases all of the things you’ve done. Matter of fact it doesn’t even add DFX it’s like you never even added them. I have been dealing with this bug, since I started using this app I have never been able to successfully add any of those amazing plug-ins garage band will not even change the sound of your recording, as soon as you go and increase or decrease the amount of compression reverb or like I said any of the other affects, and you close out of the mixer and prepped play to hear your track it doesn’t add them, then you go back to your mixer and look at it and see they’re all back down to 0% Apple please please fix this issue, recordings with sound so much better when you can actually affect the sound. This bug has been going on long enough. On behalf of me and other voiceover users a like please fix this issue
Complaints about GarageBand

By ElaijahS (Pcmac user)

I love this app as it’s one of the only things I use on my Phone but as a beginner music creator, I have some complaints about various things. First off, notes snapping to the grid when you want to record certain rhythms and beats. For example, if you want to make triplets or a shuffle beat, it changes it to a straight beat, and as a beginner, I don’t know the exact placing of a triplet and while I can create a shuffle beat by editing the track, it’s super discouraging to do so because there’s no real reason to have it as a forced option. Second thing, sounds like the Violin, French Horn, and Brass Section are terribly delayed to the full attack of the sound. So if you put a note on beat 1, the full attack of the sound is an eighth of a beat later, so in order to counter that, you have to move the track over, and move notes accordingly (if it’s in the very beginning of the song). I’m also upset that this app doesn’t have sounds like a Saxophone for jazz solos and whatever else or Marching Percussion instruments (Snare, Bass Drums, and Quads/Quints) to either create a matching piece or for a stylistic piece that uses Marching Percussion instruments as well as maybe some synths. Maybe this app isn’t amazing so you upgrade to Logic Pro on a Mac and maybe all of these problems have been solved there, but for 5$, this app is great. I would expect this app to fix that first issue though.
Almost perfect

By The child indoors (Pcmac user)

Ok so I’ve been using this app seriously for 3 years. And I’ve enjoyed making beats on it. I truly have. I think it just needs a little bit of adjustment. One thing I request is to add in a saxophone sound. I’ve been trying to make a chill beat with a saxophone in it and I’m not gonna buy a saxophone for this one beat. Another thing is to have tuned drum kits. For example, in the FL studio you can use a hi-hat sound, but it on a piano roll, and make a cool effect where if you make a quick chromatic sequence, it has a cool ascending hi-hat sound. I have one last request. Auto-tune. Now you don’t have to, but it would be a cool little feature to have on this app. Like say I were to record me singing one note, say middle C. I would like for that note to change into other notes. Like if I recorded myself singing the note C, and the word “office”, and both syllables were on beat, each syllable could be different notes, or to make it more complicated, divide the syllables by twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes and so on and so fourth. Ok that got complicated. I just wanted to get the specifics about a possible new auto-tune feature. But so far the app is great I just request those three things. Have a great day!