- GarageBand
Description
GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Gather your friends to play and record like a real band with Jam Session.* Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record or capture any performance. Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share in email or send directly to Facebook, YouTube and SoundCloud.
Play your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch like a musical instrument
• Play dozens of musical instruments on the
innovative Multi-Touch keyboard
• Tap out beats with acoustic and electronic drum kits
• Recreate legendary
guitar rigs with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects
• Record your voice using the built-in microphone, and apply fun
sound effects
• Use the Sampler to create an instrument from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard
Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments
• Conduct an entire string orchestra with just one finger using
Smart Strings
• Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard
• Strum chords on
acoustic and electric Smart Guitars, or trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords
• Groove with a variety
of Smart Basses, using upright, electric, and synth sounds
• Create and use custom chords for any Smart
Instrument
• Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with Smart Drums
Start a Jam Session with your friends
• Use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to play or record live over Wi-Fi
or Bluetooth with up to three of your friends*
• Tempo, key, time signature, and chords automatically sync to the
bandleader
• Jam with any Touch Instrument or live instruments like electric guitar or voice
• Tap Record at
any time to capture your band’s best moments
• The bandleader automatically collects everyone's recordings so they
can be mixed as a song and shared
Create a song anywhere you go
• Arrange and mix your song with up to eight tracks using Touch Instruments, audio
recordings, and loops
• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording
•Trim and
place musical regions exactly where you want them to play
•Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track’s volume —solo or
mute any track or adjust pan, reverb, and echo
•Choose from over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing
band to your song
•Combine recordings to free up additional tracks using Track Merge
Share your songs
• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud*
• Create
custom ringtones and alerts for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch**
• Share your songs directly to Facebook,
YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Email songs right from GarageBand (AAC)
• Export your song and add it to the iTunes
library on your Mac or PC (AAC or AIFF uncompressed)
• Send a multitrack project to your Mac and open it in
GarageBand or Logic Pro to continue refining your song
• Send GarageBand songs directly to iMovie for iOS to add a
custom soundtrack for your video
* Jam Session and iCloud are available on iPhone 4 or later, 4th generation iPod touch, and all iPad models.
**
Requires iOS 6 or later
What's New
Version 1.4 (Mar 20, 2013)
• Play and record music apps supported by Audiobus directly into GarageBand*
• Turn off grid snapping to get
finer control over region and note editing
• Fixes an issue that resulted in feedback while connecting 3rd-party
audio accessories into the headphone/microphone jack
* Requires iPhone 4S, iPod touch (5th generation), iPad 2 or later. Audiobus requires a separate purchase.
Version 1.3 (Sep 19, 2012)
• Create custom ringtones and alerts for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch*
• Import songs from the Music
library on your iOS device
• Play or record with GarageBand in the background while using other apps**
•
Addresses a number of minor issues related to overall performance and stability
* Requires iOS 6 or later
** Requires iPhone 4S, iPad 2 or later
Version 1.2.1 (May 1, 2012)
What's New in Version 1.2.1
• Fixes an issue that could lead to crashing or missing songs when sharing to
iCloud
• Resolves an error when logging into SoundCloud using a Facebook account
• Addresses minor issues
related to performance and stability
What’s New in Version 1.2
• Start a Jam Session to play or record live with up to three of your friends using
iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch*
• Conduct an entire string orchestra using Smart Strings
• Use the Note Editor to
adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording
• Combine recordings to free up additional tracks using Track
Merge
• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud*
• Share your songs
directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Perform retro and modern synth bass lines and grooves with new
Smart Bass instruments
• Play synth melodies and arpeggios with new Smart Keyboard instruments
*Jam Session and iCloud are available on iPhone 4 or later, 4th generation iPod touch, and all iPad models.
Version 1.2 (Mar 7, 2012)
• Start a Jam Session to play or record live with up to three of your friends using iPad, iPhone, or iPod
touch*
• Conduct an entire string orchestra using Smart Strings
• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune
any Touch Instrument recording
• Combine recordings to free up additional tracks using Track Merge
• Keep your
GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud*
• Share your songs directly to Facebook,
YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Perform retro and modern synth bass lines and grooves with new Smart Bass instruments
• Play synth melodies and arpeggios with new Smart Keyboard instruments
*Jam Session and iCloud are available on iPhone 4 or later, 4th generation iPod touch, and all iPad models.
Version 1.1 (Nov 1, 2011)
• Universal app designed for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch
• Create custom chords for Smart Instruments
•
Support for 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures
• Reset song key without transposing original recordings
• Transpose
songs in semitones or full octaves
• Additional quantization options for recordings including, straight, triplet
and swing
• New audio export quality settings for AAC and AIFF (Uncompressed)
• Arpeggiator available in Smart
Keyboard
• Adjustable velocity settings for Touch Instruments
• Numerous enhancements, including automatic
fade out and improved audio import options
Version 1.0.1 (Jun 1, 2011)
• Support for audio output over AirPlay, Bluetooth devices and HDMI with the Apple Digital AV Adapter.
•
Import of AIFF, WAV, CAF audio files and Apple Loops (16 bit, 44.1 kHz).
• Allows copy and paste of audio from
supported apps into GarageBand.
• Addresses occurrences of GarageBand freezing while playing Smart Instruments.
• Improves overall stability and addresses a number of minor issues.












