In the description of iMovie you can read, that it is only for iPad 2. GarageBand should also be for iPad 1. But I'm not 100% sure!
Some people are installing this on iPad 1.
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Some people are installing this on iPad 1.
Holy crap! GarageBand may be about the coolest app I've ever used...on anything. It's unbelievable what they've done, even on the original iPad it's incredible. The fact that you can add samples and manipulate them is amazing, although I can't discover how to rename them yet. There's lots of things they could add to this, like the ability to create your own auto play snippets, but wow, I'm just blown away. I can't believe you can do all this with something you can hold in your hand, that can also surf the web, read books, and everything else. If that's not "magical", I don't know what is. What a steal for $5.
Does anyone else have this bug on GB that when you pick a different guitar you hear static and then the guitars don't produce sound anymore?
Man, reading about Garageband makes me want an iPad even more than I already did! Too bad I won't be able to get one for a while.
I was about to write just about the same thing (I always found the "magical" bit to be a little too much, but Garageband is making me think otherwise).
And I'm guess someone here could say that we're brainwashed or something, but from what I've experienced Garageband is extremely polished and fine-tuned, it's very complex and deep for a tablet application, pressure sensitivity works, it's fun yet powerful, and I don't see anything close happening on android tablets anytime soon.
I'm running out tomorrow to buy an iPad camera connection kit so I can try either my iMic audio interface, M-Audio USB/midi keyboard or my USB electric guitar. From what I've read all three should work (not 100% sure about the keyboard though).
I've been playing around with Garageband Extensively on my iPad and I really like it. It's making me consider getting the iPad 2 as a dedicated musician's tool. You can tell it's optimized for the iPad 2 as it can take a bit for certain things to load. It's not really an issue considering all that you can do with this $5 app.
Something amiss in Garageband.
So I'm looking around Garageband, and I see on the "My Songs" screen, the familiar icons at the bottom. One of these is the "Download from iTunes" icon, which when tapped, pulls up a little empty window stating "Copy from iTunes", and "No songs to copy".
Has anyone successfully imported anything from Garageband 11 to the iPad version yet? I can't get it to... do right... it... doesn't go!
Gah!
Also, that iMovie hack is interesting. Curious how you'd load any movies onto that to work on if you can't sync the device...
So I'm looking around Garageband, and I see on the "My Songs" screen, the familiar icons at the bottom. One of these is the "Download from iTunes" icon, which when tapped, pulls up a little empty window stating "Copy from iTunes", and "No songs to copy".
Has anyone successfully imported anything from Garageband 11 to the iPad version yet? I can't get it to... do right... it... doesn't go!
Gah!
Also, that iMovie hack is interesting. Curious how you'd load any movies onto that to work on if you can't sync the device...
Anyone else found the demo song called "Curtain Call" that is included with GB? Is it by some popular band?
I can't find any reference to it on the internet. It's a short song with nice female vocals, and it really seems to have been edited and recorded using GB on an iPad.
Shazam can't recognize the song. Maybe the girl who sings is an Apple employee?
Edit: It's the song from the keynote GB demo.
I can't find any reference to it on the internet. It's a short song with nice female vocals, and it really seems to have been edited and recorded using GB on an iPad.
Shazam can't recognize the song. Maybe the girl who sings is an Apple employee?
Edit: It's the song from the keynote GB demo.
I knew it was too good to be true
If anyone finds a way around this then I'll install it again, but until then it's frustrating that iMovie works perfectly well on iPad 1 but is prevented from being installed simply because there are no cameras on it!
hey guys, I'm new here .
I'm just wanna say that the new iMovie should be compatible with the original iPad as well.
I mean by technical-wise, it's also compatible for iPhone 4 & the new iPod Touch..
..and the new iPod Touch has pretty much the same specs as the original iPad. Same processor speed, same amount of RAM; minus the retina display (iPad) and 3G (iPod Touch) of course.
I'll try to download from my mac because I cant download it from the app store. I'll keep you guys posted
.I'm just wanna say that the new iMovie should be compatible with the original iPad as well.
I mean by technical-wise, it's also compatible for iPhone 4 & the new iPod Touch..
..and the new iPod Touch has pretty much the same specs as the original iPad. Same processor speed, same amount of RAM; minus the retina display (iPad) and 3G (iPod Touch) of course.
I'll try to download from my mac because I cant download it from the app store. I'll keep you guys posted
There seems to be no tutorials like the full-sized GarageBand. On the other hand, it does contain some simple auto-play options to arrange some good arpeggios and stuff for people who don't know musical instruments that well.
But yeah. No tutorials. But it does indeed work with the USB keyboard camera connection kit, as long as the keyboard is self-powered. That is, not powered by the USB connection.
I'm pretty impressed with what you can turn out with just the iPad itself. It also allows you to mix pretty decent stuff from live recorded instruments and voice straight from the built-in microphone. However, if you want to record live stuff while the music is playing, use headphones.
It has certain limitations, but one of the easy access controls is to control the volume level cutoffs for recording. It's actually pretty easy to record cutting out just about any background noise and interference. It's no $200 condenser mic, but for a built-in one, it works quite nicely.
I created a funk performance of Tenor Madness rather quickly, and then did a quick beach song that sounds kind of like those Apple commercial demos, or stuff that goes in the background for an iPhoto slideshow. Best part, was this was just to show what I could do, in just minutes, using nothing but the iPad (first generation) as a mini-studio. Other recorded instruments were just a couple of live acoustic things I had sitting around the house. For the test, I did the recording with no USB keyboard attached, just to get a feel for an early performance without any help from physical keys.
The software does have a few times where you have to wait a bit. Not very long, but as you record more and more layers, you'll see certain times where it is automatically storing and compressing tracks to keep the performance up. Still, even on the iPad 1, it seems there's nothing (except available iPad storage space, from putting anything you want up to those 8 tracks). I do notice that some polyphonic keyboards have a limit on how many notes play at once. I would imagine they are the expensive ones, and is a pretty keen method to ensure performance stays up. But none to keep you from spelling out any particular flavor chords you want.
Otherwise, this is kind of like a great ultra-portable song creation kit and song starter. Even without live instruments, I can do some quick and dirty music jams on the fly on this thing. With nice studio reverb and balancing effects. Just not dynamic ones. But then again that was always a limitation of GarageBand over something like Logic and Pro tools.
On Podcast:
I would say no it doesn't have podcast setups, there's also no auto-ducking features. So if you plan to create a podcast with this, you kind of have to do some manual editing and such to do it. You just won't be able to do all the features especially since track volume changes are not saved in a performance. So the only way to do realtime dynamics that are saved are changes is in the performance of touch-sensitive instruments or ones played that way through live performance. So your podcast would mainly be you balancing your voice to be heard over whatever setting of volume you set for the other tracks.
So the facilities are many, but I could imagine a better specific software for doing podcasts. Something where you can take pre-recorded tracks from your library or itunes and record a voice track over it to mix and balance. Something this doesn't really do.
But yeah. No tutorials. But it does indeed work with the USB keyboard camera connection kit, as long as the keyboard is self-powered. That is, not powered by the USB connection.
I'm pretty impressed with what you can turn out with just the iPad itself. It also allows you to mix pretty decent stuff from live recorded instruments and voice straight from the built-in microphone. However, if you want to record live stuff while the music is playing, use headphones.
It has certain limitations, but one of the easy access controls is to control the volume level cutoffs for recording. It's actually pretty easy to record cutting out just about any background noise and interference. It's no $200 condenser mic, but for a built-in one, it works quite nicely.
I created a funk performance of Tenor Madness rather quickly, and then did a quick beach song that sounds kind of like those Apple commercial demos, or stuff that goes in the background for an iPhoto slideshow. Best part, was this was just to show what I could do, in just minutes, using nothing but the iPad (first generation) as a mini-studio. Other recorded instruments were just a couple of live acoustic things I had sitting around the house. For the test, I did the recording with no USB keyboard attached, just to get a feel for an early performance without any help from physical keys.
The software does have a few times where you have to wait a bit. Not very long, but as you record more and more layers, you'll see certain times where it is automatically storing and compressing tracks to keep the performance up. Still, even on the iPad 1, it seems there's nothing (except available iPad storage space, from putting anything you want up to those 8 tracks). I do notice that some polyphonic keyboards have a limit on how many notes play at once. I would imagine they are the expensive ones, and is a pretty keen method to ensure performance stays up. But none to keep you from spelling out any particular flavor chords you want.
Otherwise, this is kind of like a great ultra-portable song creation kit and song starter. Even without live instruments, I can do some quick and dirty music jams on the fly on this thing. With nice studio reverb and balancing effects. Just not dynamic ones. But then again that was always a limitation of GarageBand over something like Logic and Pro tools.
On Podcast:
I would say no it doesn't have podcast setups, there's also no auto-ducking features. So if you plan to create a podcast with this, you kind of have to do some manual editing and such to do it. You just won't be able to do all the features especially since track volume changes are not saved in a performance. So the only way to do realtime dynamics that are saved are changes is in the performance of touch-sensitive instruments or ones played that way through live performance. So your podcast would mainly be you balancing your voice to be heard over whatever setting of volume you set for the other tracks.
So the facilities are many, but I could imagine a better specific software for doing podcasts. Something where you can take pre-recorded tracks from your library or itunes and record a voice track over it to mix and balance. Something this doesn't really do.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4574
Seems like they just need to update GarageBand on the Mac first. I shouldn't think it will be too long until they do.