In order to take advantage of the great guitar-processing apps available for the iPad and iPhone, you need a way to get the signal from your guitar or bass into your iOS device. For that, you’ll need a dedicated guitar interface or a more fully featured audio interface that can handle not only guitar. GarageBand comes with beautiful and highly expressive Touch Instruments that sound and respond just like the real thing. Play keyboards, guitars, and bass, as well as sounds designed for EDM and Hip Hop. Smart Instruments make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note. Mar 09, 2011 GarageBand turns your iPad and iPhone into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-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, guitars. How to Use Real Musical Instruments with GarageBand on Your iPad. Or a keyboard directly to your iPad. For guitar and bass you’ll need. Created in GarageBand using the iPad or iPhone’s. Drop some live bass guitar loops into Garageband and inject some infectious grooves into your beats. No matter how advanced virtual instruments become, you'll never quite replicate the true groove and tone that a real bassist adds to your songs. From 'Funk Bass Loops - Groovaliscious V2' Seriously, don’t mug yourself by programming lame synth. Feb 01, 2016 Been using Garageband app on my ipad for late night bedroom practice with my P-bass. Love the preset tones in it. Especially the Flip-top model.
Make music with Touch Instruments
Use Touch Instruments to play keyboards, drums, guitars, strings, and more. Record your own vocals or plug in your guitar or bass, and play through a great selection of amps and stompbox effects.
Build your song
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Choose from hundreds of Apple Loops to add to your song, add a drummer that plays along to the music you recorded, and mix your song with effect plug-ins.
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Create music like a DJ
Use Live Loops to create electronic music by simply tapping cells and columns in the grid to trigger musical loops. You can build your own arrangements, then improvise and record a Live Loops performance.
Download free loops and instruments
Use the Sound Library to download and manage sound packs containing hundreds of loops, sounds, Touch Instruments, drum kits, and more. GarageBand lets you know when new sound packs are available to download.
Record Guitar Garageband Iphone
To browse the GarageBand User Guide for iPad, click Table of Contents at the top of the page.