Apple’s legendary GarageBand studio is now on iPad.
It’s not necessary to have musical abilities to use GarageBand, the MAC’s iOS interface recording studio. It will everything, you like all of the fun! One of the best recording studios who are around you are now able to have it for your iPad.
GarageBand simple to use – whatever you do is drag-n-drop the instrument of your choice. For instance, if you want a drum part, drag it to the grid, want to add arpeggios on the keyboard, drag it over, you may also add fingerpick guitar cords to the music you want. Just hit the cord name you would like and add it to the grid. You can add as much as eight tracks or else you can also add individual tracks, adjust the volume, give a loop or two and you are ready to play your own songs.
There’s even more that you can do with GarageBand with manual keying. Unfortunately, there is a disadvantage to GarageBand. The drums don’t have good tone and also the trumpets lack consistency. You cannot turn off the drum tracks but you can hit the keys harder to obtain a louder sound but it is impossible to get a consistent pattern. On the other hand, a high level guitarist, GarageBand is ideal for you.
We tested it by having an old guitar, electric, obviously, plus we used iRig (a personal guitar amplifier). We tested GarageBand’s applications and stomp-boxes and came up with a respectable sounding jangle which had a problem with timing. We thought the applying was okay but the insufficient editing options and also the selection of 80s synth pop made it impossible to create a recording in one shot. We had to record many times to get the sounds we wanted. About the brighter side, you are able to tweak the laptop keyboard and change the interface as well as the use of options to fix the timing. A minimum of Apple added that to GarageBand.
More not so good news, although we loved messing using the sample pack, the voice recording took lots of work to create any kind of song production worth while. The results had a large amount of problems when it found optimization and when we put it altogether we had to re-record many times to get a decent recording. None the less, and you might find this surprising but we recommend GarageBand. It far from perfect, takes more work than we wanted but is much better thanNanStudio or BeatMaker.
It is a great little application for guitarists and also the musically less inclined, but once you understand the tweaks you will love the amps and stomp-boxes. We wait with baited breath for that update from Apple for that iPad. In the mean time, enjoy GarageBand making your own music.