
GarageBand 4+
Make great music anywhere
Apple
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- Free
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Description
GarageBand turns your iPad and iPhone into a collection of Touch Instruments and a fully featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. And with Live Loops, it makes it easy for anyone to have fun creating music like a DJ. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play keyboards and guitars, and create beats that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug in a guitar or bass and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use a Touch Instrument, microphone or guitar to instantly record a performance, with support for up to 32 tracks. Use the Sound Library to download additional free instruments, loops and sound packs created by some of the biggest producers in the world. And then share your song with friends and family.
Live Loops. Make music like a DJ
• Use Multi-Touch to tap and trigger a Live Loop cell or group of cells
• Get started with templates or build your own grid from scratch with Apple Loops
• Create custom loops by recording directly into a cell using any Touch Instrument
• Use Remix FX to perform DJ-style effects
• Tap record to capture your performance
Play your iPad and iPhone like a musical instrument
• Play a variety of musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard
• Play and record using the Alchemy Touch Instrument
• Build grooves inspired by classic electronic drum machines with the Beat Sequencer
• Download free instruments, loops and sound packs for GarageBand with the Sound Library
• Capture any sound and apply studio-class effects
• Recreate legendary guitar or bass rigs using virtual amps and stompboxes
• Record performances from third-party music apps directly into GarageBand using Audio Unit Extensions*
Drummer
• Add virtual session drummers to your song who take direction and play realistic grooves
• Choose from acoustic, electronic drummers and percussionists**
• Each character provides their own sound and the ability to create over a million realistic grooves and fills
Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments
• Play an entire string orchestra using Smart Strings
• Perform with Chord Strips and autoplay using any keyboard instrument
• Groove with a variety of Smart Basses using upright, electric and synth sounds
• Strum chords or trigger autoplay patterns on an acoustic and electric Smart Guitar
Create a song anywhere you go
• Record, arrange and mix your song with up to 32 tracks using Touch Instruments, audio recordings and loops***
• Record multiple times over any song section and choose your favourite using Multi-Take Recording
• Use professional mixing effects, including Visual EQ, Bitcrusher and Overdrive
• Recording, mixing and exporting a song can be done at 24-bit audio resolution
• Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play
• Automate the volume and record the movement of controls on Touch Instruments
• Add comments or lyric ideas to your song with an integrated notepad
Share your songs
• Keep your songs up to date across all devices using iCloud Drive
• Create custom ringtones and alerts for your iPad or iPhone
• Share your songs using email or to social media sites like SoundCloud****
• Remotely add new tracks to your Logic Pro project from your iPhone or iPad via iCloud
* Requires compatible third-party Audio Unit Extensions apps from the App Store.
** Requires free download from GarageBand Sound Library.
*** Multitrack recording requires a compatible third-party audio interface.
**** Sharing to some social media sites may require apps like iMovie, Clips or other third-party apps
What’s New
Version 2.3.17
This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Vocals…
This game is brilliant I play it quite often and it’s fun making your own ringtones. I was loving it from the start. But… it is quite a complicated game and beginners like me might need a tutorial I haven’t found one at all that worry’s me for garage band because their rating might go down and things like that. Also when you’re making a song you might want it to sound professional yes don’t get me wrong you can do that but when I go into the game there is a lot of different instruments. But if you really want vocals I have found you have to record them yourself??? Why record them when you can get like preset ones for example the vocal from Worlds Smallest Violin. You could use those song’s vocals for your song and that would be really nice and make the game much more enjoyable for me personally because I play this every time I can and the songs in the end make me feel a lot happier. Please respond developers and please fix these two things it would make your ratings a lot better. Have a good day 🤗🤗🤗
GarageBand is fantastic - but more shooting in the foot by Apple!
It’s my sole music creation software, in practice. However, the advent of iPadOS18 has caused conflicting problems leaving me stuck. IE GB is unusable, dead software at this point. I can get my GB songs to show, but tap on one to invoke the actual baby DAW, and POP! it winks out, any song of hundreds I have made. Notes…1 - in the appstore, suddenly it says ‘iOS18 required’, which is odd, as two weeks ago, well after 18 came out, GB still launched ok. 2 - many report that even if I did move to iOS18, the volume automation is crippled, making GB useless in practice anyway, often.
I think these are two bugs, but one’s an error or ‘unforced error’ by Apple? As a former IT person, my suspicion is there is a small mistake made, making iOS18 cripple Volume automation on tracks. Also however, I think just in the last two weeks, somebody in Apple has been instructed to push a move by GB users, that will enforce update to iOS/iPadOS 18. It’s this second, unforced error, that I have fallen foul of. There’s no technical reason I think for this to be done? They’ve just clicked a software switch, and when I try to invoke GB, it does some little check, or the iOS does, and makes it blob out. It’s also different to an AUv3 crash, I’ve had plenty and this is not how it happens. Not life or death just miserable! Please fix, this is making my life a lot more dull ! Thanks.
who even needs FL studio anyway
even to this day, around 3 years into producing, i’m still finding ways to make my music better. i’ll start with criticisms, as that’s what reviews are really most helpful for. EQ. it’s not the best. increasing the gain on any frequency tends to slightly drown out the other instruments at that frequency, so you can only really turn it down. also, sound design is pretty difficult, because although there’s a massive sound library, you haven’t really got much way to create any sounds yourself without plugins. however, it’s easy to convert recordings of samples or sounds to audio files and then transfer them, which has done me fine for the past year or two. apart from that, there really isn’t much i can say that garageband does poorly, apart from the fact other software does some things better, but what more can you ask for from something you can just install and use on your phone? overall, it’s really worth at least starting making music in garageband, because it’s genuinely got really good scalability; you can make professional-sounding music as long as you know how to mix and master
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Information
- Provider
- Apple Distribution International
- Size
- 1.7 GB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2024 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free