MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO—January 6, 2004—Apple® today announced iLife™ ‘04, the next generation of Apple’s award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications. iLife ‘04 features major new versions of iPhoto™, iMovie® and iDVD™ and introduces GarageBand™, a revolutionary new music application that turns a Mac® into a professional-quality musical instrument and recording studio for musicians and aspiring musicians alike. iLife ‘04 also features the recently-released iTunes® 4.2, the world’s best digital music jukebox software which includes the iTunes Music Store, the world’s number one digital music service. iLife ‘04 leads the industry in allowing consumers to easily organize their photos, manage their music collection, create movies, author DVDs and now create music.

GarageBand turns the Mac into a complete recording studio, allowing both novice and seasoned musicians alike to easily play, record and create amazing music using a remarkably simple interface. With GarageBand, recorded performances, digital audio and looping tracks can easily be arranged and edited like building blocks to create a song. GarageBand comes with more than 50 software instruments, including a premium-quality grand piano, that can be played and recorded with any USB or MIDI music keyboard. Over 1,000 professionally pre-recorded audio loops can be combined to make complete songs or backing tracks. Vocals and live instruments such as guitars can be recorded digitally via microphone or analog input. All these tracks can be edited and mixed together with over 200 pro-quality effects presets, including pro-quality effects such as reverb and echo, and the built-in expertise of professional recording engineers. With GarageBand’s advanced modeling technology, guitar players have access to some of the most revered vintage amplifier sounds with six guitar amps, including clean jazz, arena rock and British invasion. GarageBand can also export completed songs to iTunes for burning to CD, encoding in MP3 or high quality AAC, transfer to iPod™ or for use in the other iLife applications.