Apple’s GarageBand For iPad – A $5 Mobile Digital Audio Workstation
Mar 2nd, 2011 | By James Lewin | Category: Apple iPad, Audio Podcasting, iPods & Portable Media Players, Podcasting Hardware 
Apple today introduced GarageBand for the iPad – a version of the company’s entry-level digital audio workstation, optimized for multi-touch mobile music making.
GarageBand for the iPad could be a great new option for mobile audio podcasting – turning your tablet into a mobile recording studio for $5.
Features:
- Musical instruments designed for Multi-Touch.
- 70 synth presets
- Arpeggiator
- “Smart instrument” features
- 8-track recording
- Guitar amp simulator
- Stomp box effects
- Track sharing via email or iTunes
- Tracks can be opened in GarageBand on the Mac
The iPad version of GarageBand will be available starting March 11th.
GarageBand for the iPad will work with the existing iPad – but it will be interesting to see how performance fares.
What do you think of Apple’s iPad GarageBand announcement?
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How would I use the “8-track recording”? Will there be an add on for the doc connector, that will let me plug in microphones?
Until there is a good way to get audio in and out of the iPad, it’s going to be an enigma. I would be more excited if I could hook up a couple of real mics to it.
Just plug in a USB mic via the camera connection kit. Not too complicated.
True, but what I’m looking for is more than one mic at a time. What it the point of having 8 track recording if only one input is all the iPad can manage?
I thought the old (wired) singstar mics worked with the iPad? That should give you at least two… đ
Does anyone know? Is there a way to take Pamela recorded calls from Skype and get them into an iPAD?
I installed this about 10 mins ago, and I must say I’m really impressed.
Just as a live instrument toolkit, the guitar effects and keyboard sounds are very very cool – A midi keyboard into the USB adaptor is a whole lot of fun.
Haven’t even tried recording yet, and it’s blown me away..