Apple announces GarageBand for iPad
Earlier today, Apple announced GarageBand for the iPad (US$4.99). Available March 11, this app puts the power of audio recording and editing on the sleek, portable iPad. Features include touch instruments, guitar and amp effects (you can plug your guitar in for live recording), 8-track recording and mixing and more than 250 loops. Plus, you can email an AAC version of your song and even share projects with GarageBand for Mac.
You say you're not the most talented musician in the world? No worries. The app's "Smart Guitar" will keep you in tune by suggesting chords and even "strumming" the strings for you.
When I think of what I paid for a junky 4-track recorder in high school, one that was a glorified cassette deck, and compare it to this thing, I'm floored.
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Earlier today, Apple announced GarageBand for the iPad (US$4.99). Available March 11, this app puts the power of audio recording and...
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Did everyone catch that there's touch sensitivity for volume/velocity? I've never seen that in an instrument app before. That will also be awesome for drawing. Are there other apps that do that and I didn't know?
March 03 2011 at 12:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis can fake the sensitivity by using the accelerometer to sense the impact of your fingers hitting the screen. Drawing apps probably wouldn't be able to pull off the same trick, because when you apply pressure to the screen with your fingers or a stylus you're not really "hitting" it with a similar impact as in GarageBand.
March 03 2011 at 10:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat about the lesson store? I would think the ipad would be a dream for those, and might actually make it work as a business model!
March 02 2011 at 5:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI was wondering/hoping for that as well Steve. I love using Learn To Play but sometimes I don't want to lug my Mac out to do it. It would be super sweet on an iPad.
March 03 2011 at 6:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhere is Aperture for iPad? This seems to make more sense to me then iMovie? I can do a shoot, and then edit my RAW files on the train home and then just export the versions to Aperture on my computer at home. Seriously! Steve even mentioned that the iPad was a dream for photographers. SORT IT OUT!
March 02 2011 at 3:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySeriously.
Even just an app - ANY APP - that can help sort through photos from a shoot. Something that lets you compare multiple images on the screen together and delete the unwanted ones.
By the time I get home, I could have done most of the donkey work, and concentrate on editing, either on the ipod or on the imac.
Seriously, Not one effective photo sorting app in a year...
Good news: Original iPad is supported. Confirmed by an Apple engineer: http://twitter.com/#!/coupler
March 02 2011 at 2:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyawesome, day one purchase.
March 02 2011 at 3:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWow. If they could find a way to implement multi-track recording, as in recording 4 or more channels at once, the iPad could be a serious recording tool. It probably has the horsepower, just needs the connections.
March 02 2011 at 2:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAll they need is a USB-style interface with a dock connector. Not that hard. I was doing 2in, 2out 24/44.1 recording years ago on slower PC's. Shouldn't be a problem for a 1Ghz A4.
Check this out:
https://www.alesis.com/iodock
That plus GarageBand? Damn. That's going to be killer.
Jeff,
I'm pretty sure 2in/2out is what they're offering in the new version. For serious recording I would say 4 is more the minimum, though. That way you could at least do some good live recordings or scratch recordings of rehearsals, things like that.
8 or more tracks would make it a force to be reckoned with.
Unfortunately, small storage space is an issue.
I think this is actually a watershed announcement more than people realize - it seems like in Apple's own app development, the iPad has now leapfrogged the Mac and will probably eventually supersede it as their preeminent i-device.
March 02 2011 at 2:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI am wondering. On Apple's webpage it says that iMovie is only compatible with iPhone 4, iPod 4th Gen, and iPad 2.
However, on the Garageband page it doesn't say it will only be available with iPad 2.
Does this mean that iPad 1 will have it?
I would think Garageband will run only on the new iPad 2 and won't be available for use on the first generation iPad.
March 02 2011 at 2:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replynice...... even better than garageband for Mac.
March 02 2011 at 2:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've been waiting on this for forever!! But do you think us old-forgotten iPad 1 owners will get to use it? I'm just worried Apple will only offer it for the iPad 2 and it's newer hardware.
uuuggghhh.
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