I can program backing tracks for pieces that call for them in my high school band, set them up to be controlled via our keyboard controls, easily make patches for my jazz band when funky keyboards are needed. We can get things programmed in a matter of minutes. It is the centerpiece of my jazz ensemble and high school bands. iOS 9 or later is required.For the price, look at what you get: you get ALL of the synths featured in Logic Pro, the effects racks that come with Logic Pro, it works with Logic Pro Remote, and is endlessly customizable to your needs. GarageBand is bundled free with new iOS devices 32GB and larger, and is available as a free upgrade on the App Store for existing users. And I hope we see this soon on iPads (along with Pencil support across the whole range) – fingers crossed or as the Germans say, thumbs pressed, so to speak. If Apple is supporting it officially, that means good things for third-party developers who want to play with it, too. And it’s way more interesting and intuitive than these other applications. Making this expressive is what I wanted to do with 3D Touch the first time I saw it, even more once I felt it. But the fact that it’s now coming from Apple means that the phone maker is committed to making this kind of control an official use of 3D Touch – a far cry from the “right-click to a context menu” that we saw first. We’ve seen that in ROLI’s NOISE 5D app, which even allows you to play an iPhone a little bit like you’d play their Seaboard controller. (Don’t you?)īut that said, I think this quiet 2.1 update is actually really important, for a completely different reason.Ģ.1 on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus also includes support for expressive playback of instruments via 3D Touch. Of course, I’m biased, and even if I’m wrong, I find that stuff more interesting. I remain unconvinced whether presets in general are drawing more people into music making my strong suspicion is that actually recording their own ideas (as with Apple’s Music Memos, also introduced today) is what will connect with people passionate about music making. Apple is quick to mention “EDM” as a genre, though to be honest, I’m not the biggest fan of Drummer’s attempt at aping various genres. But that story to me gets more interesting with third-party apps.Īlso new – a library of loop templates, and the Drummer feature from desktop brought to iOS. GarageBand 2.1 is also Apple’s answer to what to do with the iPad Pro for music making, with an updated display and extra controls. (It even borrows the circular display from Loopy and other recent mobile apps.) So it’s anything but “entirely new,” though it could be useful – and anything that draws more people to mobile music making may draw them in to third-party apps, too. In this case, it’s Ableton Live cross-bred with Loopy, in that there are pictures of the loops you’re triggering. You tap cells and columns in a grid to trigger instruments and sampels – so, basically, it’s Ableton Live. Now, Apple calls this “an entirely new and intuitive way to create amazing music,” but it’ll sound familiar. But there’s reason to take notice.įirst, there’s Live Loops. GarageBand 2.1 includes some features you may or may not care about. The mobile sibling of GarageBand and Logic on desktop doesn’t get a whole lot of attention, but it’s a reminder that music creation remains central to Apple – even the Apple that sells the world’s favorite phone, not just the Apple that sells the Mac. Apple is also releasing today a 2.1 upgrade to GarageBand for iOS.
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