Nearby is a Master Volume slider for adjusting GarageBand’s overall volume (the iPad’s Volume toggle switch serves the same purpose). At the top of each instrument screen are standard transport controls that include Go to Beginning, Play/Stop, and Record buttons. Do so and you’re taken to an instrument screen. You start working with GarageBand by choosing an instrument. In addition to its smart instruments, this eight-track recorder includes a wide variety of virtual instruments (synthesized and sampled) that you can play and record lets you record real instruments jacked into a compatible audio interface as well as sounds recorded with the iPad’s microphone or a compatible external mic includes modeled guitar amps and stompboxes for guitar players offers a couple of different ways to create drum tracks and even includes a sampler instrument that allows you to use an onscreen keyboard to play back sounds recorded with a microphone. That doesn’t make GarageBand for iPad a toy or somehow unworthy of trained musicians. It includes a variety of “smart” instruments that allow you to play pleasing notes, chords, and beats on virtual keyboards, guitars, basses, and drums without requiring that you have a lick of musical training. It underscores this message by eschewing the podcast, ringtone, and movie-soundtrack elements and focusing entirely on making it easy to compose music. With GarageBand for iPad, Apple is sending a different message: Yes, GarageBand is a tool for making music, but anyone-from musicians to tin-eared newbies-can use it.
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