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1. #SOUND BROWSER GARAGEBAND BEAT MAKER FOR MAC#
2. #SOUND BROWSER GARAGEBAND BEAT MAKER UPDATE#
3. #SOUND BROWSER GARAGEBAND BEAT MAKER FULL#
4. #SOUND BROWSER GARAGEBAND BEAT MAKER MAC#

Previously, you were stuck with eight, most of which were awful. If anything, it works better on iOS than Mac, due to you interacting with the equaliser settings using the touchscreen.Įlsewhere, there are new effects when recording audio instruments.

#SOUND BROWSER GARAGEBAND BEAT MAKER MAC#

Visual EQ has also arrived from GarageBand’s Mac incarnation, and provides an intuitive, tactile way to adjust bass, mid, treble and gain settings on any track. And rather than a single slider, you get granular control – reverb, for example, has separate sliders for predelay, spread, reverb time, high cut and wet/dry mix. With Plug-ins & EQ, you can add up to four effects to any track, such as chorus, overdrive, and bitcrusher. The Track Controls button now opens a slide-in panel that houses menus with plenty of expansion potential. Tracks could have echo, reverb and a compressor applied, and that was about it.

One of the weakest areas in GarageBand was effects. Read next: Best Mac for making music GarageBand for iPad & iPhone review: New track and recording effects Had Alchemy just been a bunch of new presets, that would have been impressive enough, dealing instantly with GarageBand’s propensity towards cheesy rather than contemporary keyboard sounds but here you get a synth straightforward enough for newcomers, but with enough power for veteran knob-twiddlers to make the sounds their own.

For each preset, you can adjust individual properties using dials, select or morph between variations on the sound using an eight-way transformation pad, and make further tweaks using two X/Y pads. The end result heavily resembles what you get in the Smart Controls section of an Alchemy track within Logic itself. This updated design feels more coherent, although there’s a sense further refinement might be possible: ‘Drums’ (manual drum sound input) and ‘Drummer’ (virtual session drummer) remain separate – and oddly distant in the carousel itself. And ‘Keyboard’ offers Smart Piano, the sampler and the new Alchemy Synth. Under ‘Strings’ are options for Smart Strings, note-playing and scales. For example, ‘Amp’ houses buttons for creating a new clean, distorted or bass guitar track. In this update, instruments are now intelligently grouped. The sound browser – that carousel of instruments that appears when you add a track – had grown unwieldy.

#SOUND BROWSER GARAGEBAND BEAT MAKER FOR MAC#

GarageBand for Mac vs Logic Pro X GarageBand for iPad & iPhone review: Improved sound browser In doing so, many perceived limitations of the app have fallen away.

#SOUND BROWSER GARAGEBAND BEAT MAKER UPDATE#

There are still shortcomings – song arrangement remains a weak spot, and we’d kill for an ‘unmute/unsolo all’ button – but with this update we can confidently say GarageBand for iOS is now an essential app for jobbing musicians too.īut with version 2.2, GarageBand is pushing further at the extremes, with features designed to appeal to newcomers and pro musicians alike.

#SOUND BROWSER GARAGEBAND BEAT MAKER FULL#

It’s now packed full of contemporary synth sounds, has hugely improved track controls and effects, some highly useful round-tripping to Logic, and the potential for great things with AU support. And with the new Chord Strips and sound browser in particular, GarageBand further cements itself as an essential app for anyone keen to get started in making music on iOS.īut where GarageBand has made the biggest gains is in the pro space. With this latest update, there’s a danger of complexity due to the app’s growing range of features, but the interface design continues to be strong, ‘hiding’ advanced controls from those who won’t necessarily need them, and retaining the impression of an app that remains approachable and straightforward. But GarageBand on iOS has also for much of its history sat in an awkward space, trying to be all things to all users. For a great many iOS device owners, it’s free, and even for those who’ve not activated a device after September 2014, it only costs five quid. GarageBand is an app most people have probably played with at some point.