GarageBand for iOS Gets Jam Session, Smart Strings, iCloud, and More

GarageBand for iOS has been updated with numerous new features including Jam Session, Smart Strings, Note Editor, Track Merge, iCloud, and more.

GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio - so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro - even if you've never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Gather your friends to play and record like a real band with Jam Session.* Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record or capture any performance. Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share in email or send directly to Facebook, YouTube and SoundCloud.

Play your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch like a musical instrument
• Play dozens of musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard
• Tap out beats with acoustic and electronic drum kits
• Recreate legendary guitar rigs with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects 
• Record your voice using the built-in microphone, and apply fun sound effects 
• Use the Sampler to create an instrument from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard 


Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments
• Conduct an entire string orchestra with just one finger using Smart Strings
• Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard
• Strum chords on acoustic and electric Smart Guitars, or trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords
• Groove with a variety of Smart Basses, using upright, electric, and synth sounds
• Create and use custom chords for any Smart Instrument
• Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with Smart Drums 

Start a Jam Session with your friends
• Use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to play or record live over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with up to three of your friends*
• Tempo, key, time signature, and chords automatically sync to the bandleader
• Jam with any Touch Instrument or live instruments like electric guitar or voice
• Tap Record at any time to capture your band's best moments
• The bandleader automatically collects everyone's recordings so they can be mixed as a song and shared

Create a song anywhere you go
• Arrange and mix your song with up to eight tracks using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops
• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording
• Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play
• Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track's volume -solo or mute any track or adjust pan, reverb, and echo 
• Choose from over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing band to your song
• Combine recordings to free up additional tracks using Track Merge

Share your songs
• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud*
• Share your songs directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Email songs right from GarageBand (AAC)
• Export your song and add it to the iTunes library on your Mac or PC (AAC or AIFF uncompressed)
• Send a multitrack project to your Mac and open it in GarageBand or Logic Pro to continue refining your song
• Send GarageBand songs directly to iMovie for iOS to add a custom soundtrack for your video


What's New In This Version:
• Start a Jam Session to play or record live with up to three of your friends using iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch*
• Conduct an entire string orchestra using Smart Strings
• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording
• Combine recordings to free up additional tracks using Track Merge
• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud*
• Share your songs directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Perform retro and modern synth bass lines and grooves with new Smart Bass instruments
• Play synth melodies and arpeggios with new Smart Keyboard instruments


You can purchase GarageBand from the App Store for $4.99.

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