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Adobe Audition vs. GarageBand

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Audition

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAdobe offers Audition as part of the Creative Cloud suite, a sound and audio editing and creation application.

    $31.49

    per month

    GarageBand

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AApple offers GarageBand, a digital audio workstation packaged with its operating system.

    $199.99

    Pricing
    Adobe AuditionGarageBand
    Editions & Modules
    Audition - Individuals
    $31.49
    per month
    Single App - Business
    $33.99
    per month
    Logic Pro (GarageBand Premium)
    $199.99
    Garageband for Mac
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe AuditionGarageBand
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe AuditionGarageBand
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Audition
    There are many different options available for audio editing tools in a variety of costs, from free (Audacity and GarageBand) to paid (Logic Pro X). Adobe Audition offers significantly more tools and effects processing than the free options and a better, cross platform, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Audition
    Adobe Audition is not as intuitive as ProTools, but the fact that it is part of the Adobe Creative Suite makes it far more cost efficient for smaller to medium businesses. It is far superior than Audacity and GarageBand with far more capabilities. We've selected Adobe Audition …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Audition
    For more than ten years, We used Apple's Garage Band audio editing software to produce all of our podcast episodes. This was an easy, intuitive platform for quickly compiling and editing our episodes. Garage Band, however, lacks much of the functionality and features for fine …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Audition
    Audition matches up with the highest quality products on the market. It is better than most with a good price point. Simple to incorporate plug-ins.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Audition
    Audacity is a free and open-source alternative to Adobe Audition. We have used both softwares and can tell you that Audacity has some good features but not even close to Adobe Audition. However, Audacity is completely free and Adobe Audition is really expensive, which kind of …
    Incentivized
    Apple
    Chose GarageBand
    Adobe Audition is another great audio editing/recording software, in fact it is much better compared to GarageBand and has much more effects. However, it has a pretty large price tag while GarageBand is completely free. Also, Adobe Audition has a very steep learning curve which …
    Incentivized
    Chose GarageBand
    GarageBand isn't the most powerful audio editing tool on the market, but for a free tool to Apple users... you can't go wrong.

    This tool has all the features a beginning user would ever need... and more! It's no Adobe platform, but if you're testing an idea or trying something …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Adobe AuditionGarageBand
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (30 ratings)
    9.4
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (14 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)