![]() ![]() Because it is powered (AAA battery), and the circuitry built in, it essentially eliminates all crosstalk. ![]() I've tried three different interfaces with the iPad for my guitar. I read some reviews that were iffy on the audio quality, so I may hold off and see if Apogee's dongle is really any better. Yeah, I looked at the iRig and the competing product from Griffin after writing this. Is a usable option albeit without sensativity control.Īs for Cowbell.Just record it manually, and bounce your tracks down to itunes, and imort them again to garageband for more empty tracks I'm not sure what that $99 thing is you are talking about is.Īlso, as far as inputting drums and other instruments, the Akai LPK 25 March 12th, 2011 at 1:27 Hardt: Garageband on OSX supports plugins so I’d imagine it can’t be too far off What Apple has gotta figure out now is how to build a third-party plugin API like Logic and Pro Tools, and sell more instruments and effects with in-app purchasing. "I feel sorry for the makers of StudioTrack, Virtuoso Piano, Music Studio and countless other apps with similar functionality to GarageBand." I plugged my 2.1 speakers into the cable, and it sounded great. It sucked on my iPhone 4 (the phone's mic kept picking up the guitar's feedback and triggering voice control), but rocked on the original iPad. ![]() I played a bit with the Griffin GuitarConnect cable and the iShred LIVE app. I plugged my AmpKit Link into GB last night, and it works fine. Yes, both iRig and AmpKit Link (similar to iRig) have 1/8" audio out, which can be used for headphones or line-in into something else. I've also been able to record through the Microphone and treat it as a guitar (with the amplifiers and pedals). IRig includes an audio out port, correct? I was able to plug in a guitar using iRig. All I want to do right now is get back to it. But in the end, GarageBand is a self-explanatory music creation tool with great-sounding instruments, multi-track recording and quantization that’ll save even the worst drummers. There’s this annoying bug where the screen gets out of whack when you load the advanced help menu. I’ve got even more nitpicks with GarageBand for iPad. Where’s the frickin’ cowbell? ( Update: There’s a cowbell in one of the “smart drum” sets, but not in the actual kits that you can play manually.) Guitarists will have to hold out for the Apogee Jam, a $99 adapter that runs through the iPad’s 30-pin connector. Unless I’m missing something, you can’t play audio through the iPad speakers while using the headphone jack for input. GarageBand accepts guitar input through the iPad’s headphone jack - you just need an 1/8-inch cable and a 1/4-inch adapter for the guitar output - but it’s a worthless feature for now, because you can’t hear what’s going on. To make matters worse, you can’t turn the accelerometer off or change the velocity of individual notes after you’ve recorded them. No matter how hard I tapped, or what surface the iPad was on, I couldn’t consistently hit the snare at maximum volume. ![]() For the virtual piano, it feels natural, almost like the real thing. One of GarageBand’s neatest tricks is its ability to detect how hard you’re hitting a note based on the iPad’s accelerometer. The accelerometer works, except when it doesn’t I can’t imagine buying another multi-track recording app or virtual instrument now. Even if these apps offer more features than GarageBand, they’ve been undercut by a $5 app that does all the important stuff. I feel sorry for the makers of StudioTrack, Virtuoso Piano, Music Studio and countless other apps with similar functionality to GarageBand. When the $5 app launched in the iOS App Store today, I grabbed it immediately. So for me, GarageBand was the highlight of Apple’s iPad 2 event. As a lapsed musician, I’ve been cobbling together iPad music apps since last year, but I could never find the one that did it all - recording, sampling, looping, synthesizing - at least in an affordable package. Don’t tell Apple, but I might’ve upgraded to an iPad 2 if GarageBand didn’t work on the original. ![]()
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