A Suggestion for Garageband that would make it unique

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Not sure if this is the correct place to post this or what, but I just wanted to put this out there to the GarageBand community and creators if they are listening.
I started recording actually in a garage at my buddies house in the early 90's back then the cheapest thing to record on and do overdubs was a cassette 4-track recorders, they were very limiting, but there were a few cool things that I miss from that old tech that I haven't seen any one really address in the digital domain.
Reversing (flipping the tape over) essentially recording from the endpoint of the song to the beginning, the backing tracks play in reverse but your overdub is in normal, when you flip in back to normal the backing tracks play forward but your overdub is in reverse. This was my favorite thing to do with a tape machine and its a classic retro effect Hendrix and others used it, why not bring it to GarageBand as a option directly on the transporter buttons?
Master speed adjustment, for all the backing tracks where it pitches up or down on the transporter as well, but you can overdub at normal speed when adjust the pitch. You can easily get that Parliament Funkadelic sound, or Screwwed what ever you want to call it, its another fun trick. I know you can currently pitch every instrument individually, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Basically these were some of the only tricks we had up our sleeves back in the tape days and I wish they were still available to us making creative music. I understand GarageBand is Apples entry level audio recording software and I respect that, But I think that these options align with that position, as they are simple basic and intuitive. Being integrated directly into how GarageBand works would bring back some basic nostalgia from the home recording days that lots of people enjoyed, and have since lost. I think it would make the music making process seem a lot more of a creative organic experience and may even attract a lot of older users to venture into the digital computer realm, I can already see it as the iPad replaces all multi track recorders. I love your software please consider these options in your next version of GarageBand.
Thanks

Answer 1

MMM, Thanks for your interest, but I'm not sure if you read my post completely. I am not interested in the tonal character of the medium of analog tape, and like you I overwhelmingly prefer the advantages of a DAW.
I am suggesting that designers of DAW's integrate the reverse and pitch technique in a way that emulates how tape transporters functioned. This would continue to exploit the possibility's offered by digital.  In fact a good bit of the possibility's we have been given by digital are recreating the tools we use to have before the DAW,  Acoustic space emulators, Plate & Spring reverb simulators,compressor simulators, pre-amp simulators, EQ simulators, the list goes on. These options just seemed to be left out.
Listen to the guitar solo on Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away, they didn't use a computer to do that sound, what they did was play the tape till they got to the end of the solo, flip the tape over and record in the opposite direction, from the end of the solo section to the beginning. So when you are recording backwards the first stuff you put down ends up last. Options today are to record forward then reverse your recording after the fact, or use some sorta backwards simulator, neither of these give you the experience of recording how they did it in the old days, and then adding effects to the backwards track, it gets really cool.