There's an app for that available now. Never used it, so I don't now how it compares to the above.
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Apple to Launch iMovie and GarageBand for iPad on March 11th
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There's an app for that available now. Never used it, so I don't now how it compares to the above.
Yeah, I'd get a mirror for the 'doesn't have a clue' bit and take a long hard look.
The iPad is a just a big iPod Touch. A tablet primarily designed for surfing the web, checking emails and playing games.
The very fact that you have to use Apple's 'Camera conversion' kit to connect any USB interface to it is the first clue to its unsuitability for purpose.
Congratulations on making money from your music, I bet you have a great studio setup based around your iPad!
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I'm am really excited for this. I recently started writing my own songs in Garageband for Mac (I'm getting better! ), so this is good. Funnily enough, earlier today I was thinking about when they'd release Garageband for iPad and how it would work. And five bucks? Win!
EDIT: I just looked at the GBand segment in the iPad 2 video. It looks almost exactly like the Mac OS X, with the bars and tracks. This is going to be epic.
), so this is good. Funnily enough, earlier today I was thinking about when they'd release Garageband for iPad and how it would work. And five bucks? Win!EDIT: I just looked at the GBand segment in the iPad 2 video. It looks almost exactly like the Mac OS X, with the bars and tracks. This is going to be epic.
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I remember I could install imovie on Iphone 3gs doing some tweaks, and it runs ok!
G-Band looks awesome.
Seriously looks like something I might actually use.
Was pretty blown away by it really, good work Apple!
Seriously looks like something I might actually use.
Was pretty blown away by it really, good work Apple!
I'd like to make music in Garage Band and import as a track into iMovie.
Better yet, I'd like to export In/Out points from iMovie to Garage Band, then make the track to match that length.
Better yet, I'd like to export multiple timeline markers from iMovie to Garage Band, then create tempo, ambience to match, the export back into iMovie.
Heard anything about those possibilities?
Better yet, I'd like to export In/Out points from iMovie to Garage Band, then make the track to match that length.
Better yet, I'd like to export multiple timeline markers from iMovie to Garage Band, then create tempo, ambience to match, the export back into iMovie.
Heard anything about those possibilities?
I just finished watching the imovie and garageband part of the keynote. The man discussing imovie said "This will look amazing on the iphones retina display." I guess thats implying that there will be an update for imovie on iphone to work as good as the ipad version?
I'm not a musically inclined person, but I could see myself using iPad GarageBand.
I'm wasn't entirely impressed with iMovie for the iPhone, so I'm excited to see this iPad version.
I'm wasn't entirely impressed with iMovie for the iPhone, so I'm excited to see this iPad version.
The software segment of the iPad demonstration was the most impressive part for me. In particular were the iMovie and GarageBand parts. The iMovie improvements over the original iOS one look nice, though I was not prepared for the GarageBand presentation. For a device that's extremely pick up and go, I could never imagine such a well designed app. Best of all, it looks like all of GarageBand will run on my current iPad.
Of course, I use professional stuff as well, but I do so always remembering where I came from and how I could get by on less-costing equipment. So while this isn't logic or pro-tools, and I wouldn't be scoring any full orchestra recordings with this, I couldn't help but be impressed with GarageBand. Like someone else here, I've also used an iPad instrument or two in the creation of some bigger works. There are also some instruments in which I doubt people would even bother to tell that it wasn't the real thing, in the recording, like the iElectribe from Korg.
But as a complete package, that GarageBand trumps so many single professional instruments I've ever used in the past, all of them costing just as much (minimum) or way more than the base iPad plus this GarageBand software. So to say it can't be something you can't produce serious stuff with is to say that instruments costing multiple grand to purchase, even 25 years ago, are complete toys today with no real use. Good instruments are timeless, and the sounds from the GarageBand look to match quite a few of them throughout the years. This is no casio keyboard. And while it won't be like logic or protools, with the ability to do all genres of music well, and layer large groups of instruments with precision post-production balancing and effects; it looks to give the actual GarageBand a run for it's money in some ways. Not necessarily in features, but in the viability of creating tracks when you have no other instrument around.
The accelerometer tech to provide touch-sensitive instruments is one of those, I didn't expect moments. If there was anything that seemed magical, it was that. This is the very first device, I've seen, that provided a touch sensitive response on just a flat glass screen, no key-technology to provide the feedback, and no moving parts. I can't vouch for the level of accuracy until I try it myself, but it looks good. Of course, you'll have to design music in such a way that any multiple keys played together would play at the same volume. I seriously doubt it could ever do key-by-key polyphonic impact-level precision with the tech, but it looks to work without much limitation on single note lines or arpeggios.
Still, this GarageBand is definitely one of those things that's even easier to use, both in hardware and software, as a great tool to record your start of a new song, anywhere. Whether you're out in a hotel room, at a park, in the middle of the woods from hiking. You can turn out a song, with a device smaller than a small stack of papers, that sounds practically radio-play worthy. Can't say much more than that.
Of course, I use professional stuff as well, but I do so always remembering where I came from and how I could get by on less-costing equipment. So while this isn't logic or pro-tools, and I wouldn't be scoring any full orchestra recordings with this, I couldn't help but be impressed with GarageBand. Like someone else here, I've also used an iPad instrument or two in the creation of some bigger works. There are also some instruments in which I doubt people would even bother to tell that it wasn't the real thing, in the recording, like the iElectribe from Korg.
But as a complete package, that GarageBand trumps so many single professional instruments I've ever used in the past, all of them costing just as much (minimum) or way more than the base iPad plus this GarageBand software. So to say it can't be something you can't produce serious stuff with is to say that instruments costing multiple grand to purchase, even 25 years ago, are complete toys today with no real use. Good instruments are timeless, and the sounds from the GarageBand look to match quite a few of them throughout the years. This is no casio keyboard. And while it won't be like logic or protools, with the ability to do all genres of music well, and layer large groups of instruments with precision post-production balancing and effects; it looks to give the actual GarageBand a run for it's money in some ways. Not necessarily in features, but in the viability of creating tracks when you have no other instrument around.
The accelerometer tech to provide touch-sensitive instruments is one of those, I didn't expect moments. If there was anything that seemed magical, it was that. This is the very first device, I've seen, that provided a touch sensitive response on just a flat glass screen, no key-technology to provide the feedback, and no moving parts. I can't vouch for the level of accuracy until I try it myself, but it looks good. Of course, you'll have to design music in such a way that any multiple keys played together would play at the same volume. I seriously doubt it could ever do key-by-key polyphonic impact-level precision with the tech, but it looks to work without much limitation on single note lines or arpeggios.
Still, this GarageBand is definitely one of those things that's even easier to use, both in hardware and software, as a great tool to record your start of a new song, anywhere. Whether you're out in a hotel room, at a park, in the middle of the woods from hiking. You can turn out a song, with a device smaller than a small stack of papers, that sounds practically radio-play worthy. Can't say much more than that.
so if i had a Blue Yeti mic thats usb, i could use the camera connector kits usb and it would potentially work in garageband, right? Because as much as Id love to drop 90 bucks on an adapter for my guitar, I already dropped the 100 bucks on the Yeti for my singing and itd be great if thats compatible with the iPad (original).
iMovie might work
According to ars technica, they asked a rep at the event and they said that iMovie would work you just couldn't import movies on the fly from the camera.
"Apple representatives also confirmed that iOS 4.3 will be available for the original iPad, and that the new apps (iMovie and GarageBand) will work on the original iPad as well. "Obviously you won't be able to import video to iMovie in real time on the original iPad," one rep told us, "but you'll be able to do that through the USB camera kit. Probably.""
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...with-the-ipad-2-reader-questions-answered.ars
According to ars technica, they asked a rep at the event and they said that iMovie would work you just couldn't import movies on the fly from the camera.
"Apple representatives also confirmed that iOS 4.3 will be available for the original iPad, and that the new apps (iMovie and GarageBand) will work on the original iPad as well. "Obviously you won't be able to import video to iMovie in real time on the original iPad," one rep told us, "but you'll be able to do that through the USB camera kit. Probably.""
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...with-the-ipad-2-reader-questions-answered.ars
A lot of times this is difference between a lighter, smaller piece of hardware and one that's blah. It takes a lot to shave off 33% of something that's already pretty tightly engineered. It's not easy. If it was, all the other companies would be churning out brilliant little pieces of technology. A lot of people couldn't understand what was so special about the original iPod, afterall, it was almost just like the other MP3 players, except that it was just a little smaller and faster.
Apple can't put 5 different ports on the thing because of the internal requirements of the ports. They have to make do. In some cases it requires a dongle or adapter. Big f'n deal.
My understanding was an iOS update broke the ability to plug a USB mic directly into the camera connector kit without running it through a powered USB hub. Did Apple change this back to the way it was originally, where it actually worked the way people had hoped?
Garage Band looks really fun on the iPad. Look forward to getting it. The kids will love it. (although this will be a headphones-on type of toy