Garage band vs cakewalk guitar tracks pro ?

Question

I am a guitarist/bassist and wondering how these two applications stack up, is garage band all I will need or will the extra money for guitar tracks be worth it ?

Answer 1

As SD said, there are some very good sounds in GB. I've not used AMPLITUDE or anything like that but GB is good enough for a lot of what I want to do.
Open up GB on the Macbook
Go Track/New
Select REAL INSTRUMENT
Press the blue "i" on the right hand side of the grey "transport" bar, this brings up a new panel on the right hand side of the screen.
Select GUITARS from the displayed menu - that gives you a list of the presets (don't select one just yet)
Then double click DETAILS in the right hand panel to bring up the EFFECTS panel
Click in a box that says NONE and it gives you a list of effects.
Try clicking AMP SIMULATION then moving right and clicking into MANUAL
Choose an AMP then click the PENCIL on the right hand side and that gives you a new panel to change settings
You can then also click into the next NONE box and choose an effect and go though the MANUAL/Pencil process to change effect settings etc...
When you've got a sound you like then save it (bottom right hand corner) as a new sound
Now, just out of interest, go back and select a guitar preset and you'll see the EFFECTS boxes populated with the presets created by Apple. You can also change those and save as a new name.
HTH
Cheers
Dick