Garageband for iphone manual pro#
Still, this is an iPhone app, after all, and anyone using it to create music should be well aware that the premium music-making experience will be found on an iPad.Īs with the iPad version, you can record and combine up to eight tracks, and then export to GarageBand or Logic Pro on the Mac for a bit more polishing. In this respect, GarageBand succeeds as a music-making device for people with no musical training whatsoever.īut what if you have musical experience - is GarageBand for iPhone a legitimate composition device? Not necessarily, as the app's puny user interface is quite cramped. Using Smart Instruments is a sure-fire way to create a song that doesn't sound like it was hacked out by a team of rabid baboons. In the upper left-hand corner, you can click for a pop-over menu that will take you back to the songs or instruments panel, or let you swap between different forms of your current instrument (like for the piano, you can choose between options like Grand Piano, Smooth Clav, Classic Rock Organ, or Electric Piano). In the upper right-hand corner of the app, you'll find an icon that lets you make adjustments to a single track, section or song. Most of the instruments and tools look identical to their iPad counterparts, but there are a few small variations, such as in the piano, which has only eight keys instead of 15.
You select an instrument to play, adjust settings like reverb and echo if you're not happy with the app's defaults, and then tap away at a virtual instrument interface, hitting the record button if you're ready to commit your work to, er, memory. Navigation is intuitive, and will be familiar to anyone who's ever used similar music-making and recording software. The app opens quickly, and operates only in landscape mode. At over 501 MB, it took me at least five minutes over a Wi-Fi connection to complete the installation. The iPhone version of Garage Band is, like the iPad counterpart, a big download.