![]() ![]() 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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