You will see the Apple installation screen at some point where you will need to set your time zone, set up an account and password, and set up components. The Sierra image is good and I have built several of these, so it does work and shouldn’t be the cause of any issues that might crop up. Be patient and have a coffee or something if it is taking a long time. Loading may take a while depending on how fast your computer is you’re asking it to do a lot right now.

Select OK to leave Settings and select the green Start arrow to load the VM.

Select the Acceleration tab in System and check the box next to Intel VT-x.

Select the System tab in Settings and make sure that Floppy is not checked.

Paste ‘smc.version = “0” ‘ to the end of the file and save it.

Navigate to DocumentsVirtual Machines in Windows Explorer and right click the VMX file.

Navigate to your download of Sierra and select the Sierra.vmdk file.

Remove the Hard disk and select Use an Existing Virtual Disk.

Select the new virtual disk and select Settings.

Allocate as much memory as you can and select Create a virtual disk now.

Set the Guest OS as Apple Mac OS X and the version as Mac OS X 10.11 or 10.12.

Open VirtualBox and select New to create the VM.

Download a copy of MacOS Sierra onto your computer and extract the contents.

Set up VirtualBox and install it onto a drive with lots of free hard disk space.

Download and install VirtualBox onto your computer.

It is safe and I have used it multiple times in the past. The linked copy of MacOS Sierra is stored on Google Drive and was created by TechReviews. You will need a copy of MacOS Sierra and a copy of VirtualBox to make this work. I’ll talk you through creating a Mac virtual machine and then load GarageBand onto it. If your Windows PC has the resources to run a VM version, then this is the only way I know to be able to run GarageBand on a Windows machine. I run MacOS Sierra within VirtualBox and it works flawlessly. The only legitimate way to use GarageBand in Windows is to create a Mac virtual machine. There are smarter risks you can take in life. I would stay away from such websites for the safety of your computer if you find yourself contemplating trying out one of these supposed “Windows versions” of the program. There are no Windows versions of GarageBand and I suspect these downloads are bogus and full of adware or malware. If you search for ‘GarageBand for Windows’ then you will likely see lots of websites offering Windows versions of this program. With many music stars professing to use GarageBand, it’s no wonder others want in on the act.

Fittingly, the program enables you to begin making music whether you can play an instrument or don’t even own one.

GarageBand was apparently named for the many now-famous bands who began making music in their garages as amateurs.

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