TNW Review of GarageBand for iPad

Last week Apple released an iPad version of its popular music creation software GarageBand, bringing both non-musicians and professional artists a gorgeous, organic way to compose music.

This review is written by a non-musician tech enthusiast and is aimed at the average iPad user.

Creating a Project

The user interface is elegant and it organizes the tools and elements beautifully, we?d really expect no less from Apple on the design front.

When you launch the app, your multiple projects (or songs) are displayed in a Cover Flow-like view, allowing you to swipe through visual previews of each song. Once a new project is created, users are presented with a series of instruments including keyboards, guitars, drums, guitar amps, an audio recorder and samples.

After selecting an instrument, you?ll need to record something in order to receive access to the project timeline, a screen where the track editing is done. But before we explain editing and recording, we?ll take you through the instruments.

Instruments and Samples

For non-musical folks, any instrument labeled as ?smart? provides a bank of auto-play features that will enable you to create bass lines, drum beats and melodies without much effort. And, it comes with various options to change the pitch, notes and chords.

Smart Guitars

Smart Bass Guitar: There are 4 types of bass guitars available to help you achieve the the sound you?re looking for; Liverpool, muted, picked (rock guitars) and an upright bass guitar.

Smart Guitar: Like the smart bass, there are multiple guitars all capable or producing different sounds; acoustic, classic clean, hard rock and roots rock. The Smart Guitar also uses digital foot pedals (stompbox effects) to creative specific tones for your instrument. Artists often use real foot pedals, most notably (on guitar) for producing distortion sounds and delay.

Recording with auto-play: Both of the smart guitars offer options to record an auto-play melody that comes with 4 different sounding samples/patterns. Users can alter the (auto-play) tune by tapping on notes that results in changing the melody. For someone who can?t play guitar, the auto-play option makes it simple to come up with a solid bass line or riff.

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