编曲软体GarageBand15岁了 已超过10亿台设备使用
▲编曲软体 GarageBand 15岁了。(图/业者提供)
由苹果所发表的编曲软体「GarageBand」15岁了!自从该款软体发布后,对音乐界也产生不小的影响,许多知名音乐人都会使用该款软体来制作,因为简单上手,不仅专业人士爱用,甚至是任何人都能轻松使用。
综合外电报导,「GarageBand」于2004年苹果的MacWorld大会上进行发表,当初是由苹果创办人贾伯斯(Steve Jobs)和知名音乐人John Mayer一起介绍,该软体介面简单且容易上手,标榜人人都能使用,另外像是肯德里克·拉马尔(Kendrick Lamar)、蕾哈娜(Rihanna)等专业音乐人,也都曾标示他们会使用「GarageBand」来完成创作。
时至今日,全球已有超过10亿台iPhone、iPad、Mac等苹果装置有在使用GarageBand,而当初与贾伯斯一同发表GarageBand的知名音乐人John Mayer近日也在Instagram发布一则纪念贴文,文中指出,因为GarageBand的发布,让数百万过去没机会接触音乐的人有了全新的机会,「我曾认识这么一个改变世界的人」。
▼知名音乐人John Mayer的Instagram贴文。
On this day 15 years ago, I helped Steve Jobs introduce GarageBand to the world. Since then, it’s brought music composition and production into the lives of millions of people who might have never had access to it otherwise. Looking back on it, I believe this was a kind of altruism on Steve’s part, offering the app for free on Apple devices and eventually for all. He loved music as much as anything else in his life, and GarageBand was Steve’s way of giving people the tools to discover the music within themselves. I once knew a man who changed the world.
John Mayer