by windhorse » Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:49 am
Thanks for asking,,
No, not to produce,, just to write something out quickly and see how it sounds. Or to create a track with clave, or clave and shakere, or clave and cata, or just tumba, or whatever, but not have to play it to get it recorded.
The thing that Percussion studio does so well, is that you can transcribe something and check to see if your writing matches to what you hear, or that you can write some notation out for something you're currently brainstorming. Like I once wrote out a really elegant quinto lead sequence with Percussion Studio. I never was able to play it all the way through,, but just the practice of doing that has made me infinitely better at playing quinto.
So, it's a great practice tool.
And I don't think that Garage band has that capability. Though Garage band is extremely useful as a recording studio! I certainly don't want anything more advanced for recording.