GarageBand is one of the best apps you can show off on your iPad 2 to convince even the most ornery skeptic, and it just got even better: with the 1.1 update, GarageBand is now a $4.99 universal app, and can run on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
Additional updates include custom chords for Smart Instruments, 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures, additional quantization options for recordings, adjustable velocity settings for Touch Instruments and many other enhancements.
Apple’s press release below:
Apple today announced that GarageBand®, its breakthrough music creation app, is now available for iPhone® and iPod touch® users. 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 on iPad has been a big hit and we think customers will love using it on their iPhone or iPod touch”
“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. “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 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. 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.
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. 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.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
24 responses to “GarageBand Is Now Available On The iPhone and iPod touch”
i wonder if it is any good i have always been a fan of garage band on the mac
i use it on my iPad. it’s very basic and I’m not keen on the fact that I had to use an instrument to make a track to get into the track editor to work with loops. but otherwise it was pretty good. It’s actually a required app for my sibs and nieces/nephews on their school iPads.
and it was nice that you could save the work file and use it on the Mac for more complex stuff. I still think they need to do that for the iMovie app
It still hasn’t shown up in the iPhone version of the app store
For downloading the app in other countries where it’s unavailable at the moment and on any device, enable Automatic iCloud app downloads on that device, download the app from the iTunes Store in iTunes, and it should automatically show up on the device. This is to get the app running on a device that has an appstore account in countries other than the US.
A little fix for those impatient iOS users like me ;) who want to get their hands on this app now ported to these smaller iOS devices!
Its on the iPhones featured front page, just not if you run a search
Does anyone know a good way to plug a guitar into the iPhone to record? Ive heard of the iRig anyone used it?
Why is there a link to an external website for the iPod touch at the end of this article?
So I hovered over the link and noticed a popup that read “Link added by VigLink”. So I looked it up, and it is a pay for link scheme that more and more blogs and others are starting to use. I read an article about this recently. Come on John, this isn’t right.
http://gawker.com/5853502
You can already do that with imovie, @lucascott:disqus .
You can already do that with imovie, @lucascott:disqus .
Just grab a $1 adapter form a hardware store. u know the kind that takes like a headphone jack and turns it into a guitar one. that should be fine. iRig is just an expensive version of that
Looks like my previous post that included an explanation didn’t make it past the moderators/admins of this site. I do see now that the original links mentioned in the first post have since vanished. Unfortunate that they were there in the first place. I have registered for an account now as that may have been the reason my previous post with the link that provides and explanation didn’t see the light of day.
Please read this link with the explanation of what was attached to this story earlier:
http://gawker.com/5853502
And then please never come back to cultofmac . They using their stories, with embedded links to drum up money for the author. I don’t think I need to point out the journalistic integrity issue at hand here. Shame on John Brownlee and anyone at cultofmac that is aware of this scheme.
If they can do this with GarageBand why can’t they put iBooks on my MacBook?
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