Ableton loops are not for the faint of heart – many of the “Clips” are exclusive to a specific device or sample pack and do not gracefully drag anywhere as audio files do. After another semester, I determined it was due to the weak loop selection in Live compared to GarageBand. Once we were off into my projects like the Radio Ad and sampling drum sounds from around the school they class felt exactly right, but there was a bit of magic missing from the first weeks. Really there were no big negatives with the switch, other than a slight intangible fun factor that was not present in the first few weeks. Projects from both courses sounded about the same in quality.GarageBand has a “global key” while Live does not – more on this later.Exporting files is a tiny bit easier in GarageBand.Kids do not think either program is “harder” if they don’t know anything different.I took one section of the beginner course, and pretended GarageBand did not exist, and we started on Ableton Live instead, doing the same exact projects as the five other sections using GarageBand. My course registrations for the second-year class are very healthy, and I did not want to jeopardize that by introducing an unpopular change in the beginner level. Spring semester 2014 I decided to hedge my bets on this topic. Since I was already using Ableton Live in my advanced course, I decided it might make more sense to have my beginners use that software instead. I would have to rework many of my lessons to work in the new version. 2013’s GarageBand 10, however, made me question the direction the software was taking. Since 2006 I had started my beginners on the software, which arguably ignited the entire movement of “older beginner” music composition courses. Around Christmas 2013 I was starting to worry about GarageBand.
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