Strong points and suggestions for future updates.

Id say Garageband is a very good DAW for being freeware for buying an Apple product. So Ill mention some good things first:

There are SO MANY choices with the new rollout of the Alchemy Piano Synth, I havent even used them all yet! Not to mention the huge amount of sounds from the old piano.

Its very easy to make a bangin beat! The UI is the best Ive seen, very user friendly, anyone could make music on this app.

VERY USEFUL EQ AND EFFECTS.

EXTREMELY EASY TO SORT PROJECTS.

I LOVE THE PRESET VOCAL EFFECTS AND INSTRUMENT EFFECTS.

Its so hilarious because, compared to the other $200+ DAWs out there, Garageband can do pretty much the same amount and its really really REALLY cheap.

You can make high quality music, which is why some music artists use it.

BUT... Theres alot of things in the app that the user has to sort of "deal" with. Here are some I can remember off the top off of my head:

When doing live loops, I noticed the loops would freeze visually when looping, and it throws me off track everytime it does it (which is everytime I use the live loops.) It never did it before, and no, I am almost certain it is not because of me.

When copy-pasting onto a live loop edit, sometimes the thing you copy and paste disappears when you paste it to another section. Im pretty sure this happens when you copy-paste actual audio in the edit if Im not mistaken.

Some vocal effects need tweaking, the biggest example being the Vocal Transformer, because it breaks the audio of the vocal making it sound horrible.

You should make it easier to sample audio off of iCloud, because the list of the samples keeps expanding with the amounts of things I sample and it can get hard to find the certain audio bit I selected off of iCloud.

I also noticed when exporting a song to iCloud, the mix of the song gets messed around with; making some elements sound quieter and less "bangy" as they did in the mix on the iPad. This is extremely frustrating, as I have no idea how this happens, it should stay the same after exporting.

Sometimes, when playing a loop during a recording, a note from a synth or other instrument will sound extremely distorted throughout the length of the recording, so I have to totally restart the recording sometimes.

I have also noticed using apps like IM1 with Garageband give this "crackle" feedback when looping (I make all songs using the live loops which is a very useful tool) the sound from the Audio Unit. This happens alot when I try to use a virtual piano app with Garageband, so I always have to find a work around.

The velocity and quantization of built-in drums are always off and weird when recording, so I always have to turn the velocity up and reassign the quantization of the drums to how I wanted them.

Quite recently, some of my GarageBand files on my iPad got corrupted, some files were music I had worked on for days, and they cant be fixed.

And I also noticed when mixing a beat together, when you budge the volume of an element the slightest amount, it greatly increases the velocity and volume, this happens alot with sampled elements.

FX is useless, because it doesnt work at all; even when I playback the song from the start. It just doesnt work, and its a shame because FX makes some songs very interesting.

Theres so much more to be discussed, but I can only remember so much. Maybe Im scraping the bottom of the barrel for some of the things here, but I think these are some pretty strong points.

Own_ about GarageBand, v2.2.2