RECORDING GUITAR GARAGEBAND IPHONE UPDATE
GarageBand 1.1 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is available on the App Store™ for $4.99 (US) to new users, or as a free update for existing GarageBand for iPad customers. GarageBand allows you to record and mix up to eight tracks and then share your finished song with friends or send it to your Mac® to keep working on it in GarageBand or Logic® Pro. You can plug your electric guitar into iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to play and record through classic amps and stompbox effects, or record your voice or any acoustic sound using the built-in microphone. Smart Instruments now allow you to choose from an extensive new library of custom chords so you can play and strum along with your favorite songs. GarageBand features a collection of fun Touch Instruments that sound great and make it easy for beginners or experienced musicians to play and record keyboards, guitars, drums and basses in a wide variety of styles. “The innovative Multi-Touch interface combined with Smart Instruments makes it easy to create great sounding music, even if you’ve never studied music or played an instrument before.” “GarageBand on iPad has been a big hit and we think customers will love using it on their iPhone or iPod touch,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. Introduced earlier this year on iPad®, GarageBand uses Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ interface to make it easy for anyone to create and record their own songs, even if they’ve never played an instrument before. GarageBand Now Available for iPhone and iPod touch UsersĬUPERTINO, California-November 1, 2011-Apple® today announced that GarageBand®, its breakthrough music creation app, is now available for iPhone® and iPod touch® users. Smart Instruments now allow you to choose from an extensive new library of custom chords so you can play and strum along with your favorite songs.”įull press release after the break, if you’re interested. “GarageBand features a collection of fun Touch Instruments that sound great and make it easy for beginners or experienced musicians to play and record keyboards, guitars, drums and basses in a wide variety of styles.
RECORDING GUITAR GARAGEBAND IPHONE MAC OS
If you’re unfamiliar with the iOS app, which is a mobile version of the GarageBand app that ships with Mac OS X, here’s the description from the press release:
New in Version 1.1 is the ability to create custom chords for Smart instruments, and support for 6/8 and 3/4 time signatures. You’ll still enjoy the freedom to edit your recordings, stack up tracks to create harmony, process them with special sound effects, and mix the whole thing down to a polished, single track.Apple released a new universal GarageBand iOS app ($4.99) today that brings iPhone and iPod touch support to the previously iPad only, scaled-down DAW. Forget the loops, forget MIDI, just use it as a tape recorder with a lot of tracks. The creative possibilities that result are mind-blowing-and make possible a world where Joe Nobody, a guy with a great voice but no money, can produce a studio-caliber demo CD in his living room.īut using GarageBand for nothing but its audio-recording features is also perfectly legitimate. The beauty of GarageBand is that it lets you layer these recordings on top of tracks that you’ve built using its other tools (like loops and MIDI performances), and can play all of it back together at once. That’s an important feature, because plenty of musical sources don’t have MIDI jacks-including your own voice, not to mention mandolins, harps, violins, castanets, and 8-year-olds burping. And now, as you’re about to find out, it’s also a digital multitrack tape recorder that can record live sound.
It’s a MIDI sequencing program that records whatever you play on a MIDI-compatible keyboard, guitar, or drum set. It’s a loop-building program that lets anyone build great-sounding compositions, even with no musical training. When you get right down to it, GarageBand is actually three programs in one. Chapter 6. Recording and Editing Live Audio