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Are you a musician? Have you ever wanted to be a musician? GarageBand for the iPad gives seasoned musicians and those with rock star dreams an opportunity to create music.

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Apple gave GarageBand a substantial update after the release of iOS 5.1 – in preparation for the new iPad. The graphics have been bumped up in quality and the options for creating music have been enhanced by the inclusion of iCloud integration, multiple users over Bluetooth and new instruments.

How to Use Real Musical Instruments with GarageBand on Your iPad By MacLife 13 February 2012 It’s time to plug a real instrument into GarageBand to see what it can do.

The premise of GarageBand is just as the name implies – amateur musicians and musician wannabees can play, record and share music they create using instruments on the iPad.

Getting Started with GarageBand

From the startup page of GarageBand, touch the “+” icon in the top left corner. You are immediately presented with the option to start a New Song or copy a song from iTunes. For our purposes, we will select a New Song.

Choosing an Instrument

Selecting a New Song brings you to the instrument selection screen. Swipe through the various instrument choices to choose your first instrument to play. The instruments are in two formats – Smart instruments and regular instruments. Smart instruments let you jump right in an hit one button to play an entire chord (as opposed to holding down all the notes individually. While Smart instruments seem to be the clear choice for people with little or no musical background, they are still very useful even to seasoned musicians.

The instruments included in GarageBand are both Smart versions of:

Guitar
Keyboard
Bass
Strings – Brand new in GarageBand
Drums

There are then regular versions of:

Keyboard
Drums

Lastly, GarageBand also includes a Guitar Amp which allows you to plug in your guitar using a third party accessory to classic amps and stompboxes.

The options are actually pretty staggering. In this example, I chose Keyboard and then when I touched the Grand Piano icon I could choose from eight different Keyboards.

Options from Within each Instrument

The instruments in GarageBand are very true to life. For example, when I chose Electric Piano from the options in the Keyboard, I now had nobs for Decay, Bell, Tremolo and Chorus. With each adjustment, the tone and character of each note changes.

When I chose the Smart Guitar, I could then choose to play an Acoustic, Classic Clean, Hard Rock or Roots Rock guitar. Just like with the keyboards, each guitar comes with its own controls. I can play an entire chord by touching the name of the chord – for example, if I touch Em, I play an E minor chord. Or, I can play individual notes within a chord for “fingerpicking” just like a real guitar.

The options are so comprehensive that you can spend hours just tinkering with musical possibilities before you are even ready to record a song.

Recording a Song

GarabeBand allows you to not only play around with all these instruments, but to actually record a song and layer it with different instruments. Once you pick your first instrument, touch the red Record button along the top bar of icons.

As soon as you touch record, the recording bar – divided into measures – appears at the top. Just keep playing your song and when you are ready, touch the Stop icon. You can then touch the Play icon to play back what you recorded. Your recording gets saved and is now available to “layer over” other instruments or edit.

Editing a Song

Next to the instrument icon along the top bar of icons is the Edit icon. When you switch to Edit mode, you see the timeline of the song at the top. To edit your song:

Double tap the song in the timeline.
Choose to Cut, Copy, Delete, Loop, Split or Edit the song.
In Edit mode, touch a note to Cut, Copy, Delete or change the Velocity
Touch in an empty part of the song to add a note.

I found the editing process a bit cumbersome and complicated and it in involved some trial and error to actual pin down a specific note and change its character or delete it entirely.

To add a pre-recorded instrumental accompaniment to your musical creation, just touch the Apple Loop icon along the top right hand bar of icons and choose an instrument to add to the time line. You can select the number of bars, the genre along with the instrument. Just hold and drag to the timeline. In this example, I dragged the 70s Electric Piano 08 right the position in the timeline where it was needed. Now, when I hit play, both instruments are playing simultaneously.

To Add a New Instrument to the Project

Touch the “+”icon in the lower left hand corner to get to the main instrument selection screen. Choose your instrument as you did above and practice, practice and practice some more! When you are ready, touch the record button like you did earlier and start recording your new part to the song.

What is incredibly cool here is that everything you have recorded to this point is played along with the metronome to help you keep your beat. Just come into the song at the right time with the new instrument and it will be “layered” with the other instruments you record to make your song.

Touch the Edit icon again and you will now see the new layer of the song. You can edit out parts or add in notes just as you did above.

Adjusting the Settings from the Edit Screen

There are a few additional icons along the right hand side of the top bar. The icon next to the Apple Loops icon adjust individual settings in the instruments. Just highlight a section of one of the instrumental recordings and adjust settings like Reverb and Echo, for example. Next to that icon is a general Settings icon which allows you to adjust:

Metronome – turn it on or off.
Count-In – this gives you time to jump into the song.
Sound – of the Metronome
Tempo
Key
Time Signature
Fade Out
AirPlay.

To Save your project, tough the My Songs icon and you will return to the main screen after saving the new song.

Using the Guitar Amp

One of the very cool features of GarageBand is the ability to use built in guitar amps and then record yourself actually playing your guitar. There are third party accessories like the Griffin Guitar Connect Cable and the Apogee JAM Guitar input which work well for electric guitars. You can also use the built in microphone of the iPad and an acoustic guitar.

I used my Martin acoustic and the iPad mike to record a few tracks. The first thing to do is to pick an amplifier. The default is the Clean Combo amp, but just touch the Clean Combo name to see all the amps available. You can also just swipe left or right to choose an amp.

Each amp has true to life controls, so if you own an old American Tremolo, the controls will be just like those on your own amp. I recommend playing with the controls to get the right sound, practicing your song over and over and then get ready to record.

Prior to recording, you can add beat boxes by touching the icon just under the timeline. You can also add sections to your song – giving you additional bars of recording by touching the “+” icon at the end of the timeline. If you know that the section you want to record repeats over and over – just select the Duplicate function.

Tuning your Guitar

Touch the icon of the tuning fork to find a built in tuner for your guitar – which is very handy. Strum one note at a time and the tuner will show you how far off you are from the actual note. What you want is to get the note to show up Green – meaning that your string is in tune.

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Once you are ready to record, touch the red Record button as you did above and just start playing. When you are done, touch the Stop Recording button. You can then Undo the recording if you made some mistakes or touch the Edit button as you did above to get to the editing sections. From there, you can add Apple Loops of add some percussion or maybe a piano riff or two to your guitar recording to make a complete song. Touch the My Songs icon to save your composition and get to the main screen.

Starting a Jam Session

A good GarageBand has lots of folks jamming, and now you can do this with GarageBand as well. To start a Jam session:

Touch the Jam session icon next to the volume control in the top bar.
Turn on Bluetooth if it is not already turned on (the iPad will prompt you to do this)
Then, you can either Create a session or Join a session if someone with an iPad near you already started one.
Once the iPads are connected, the “host” controls the tempo and the recording.
Both parties (or, up to four) play their tracks and then all tracks will show up on the iPad that started the Jam Session for editing.

Deleting Songs

After you start playing with GarageBand, you might collect a few songs in your start up page that you want to delete. Deleting a song in GarageBand is very intuitive:

Touch the Edit button in the top right corner
The songs in your start up page begin to shake.
Touch and hold the song you want to delete and the top bar indicator will now read “1 Song Selected.”
Touch the Trash Can icon and delete the song.

Using iCloud

New in GarageBand is the ability to use iCloud to share songs or store them for future retrieval. To share a song that you create on GarageBand with your iCloud account just:

Touch the edit button in the top right hand corner
Touch and hold the song to select it.
Touch the iCloud icon (the icon furthest to the right along the title bar)
Touch on the Upload Song to iCloud prompt
You will then notice a small iCloud icon on top of the song.

All is not a bed of roses here. What I wanted to do was upload to iCloud and then just have it magically appear on my Mac. If I upload to iCloud, that works between iOS devices. So if I use iCloud on my iPhone and my iPad, any project done in one appears on the other.

However, to get a song onto Garage band on my Mac, I have to:

Touch the Edit button.
Touch the Share as button.
Choose iTunes from the menu.
Then Choose either iTunes or GarageBand.
Choose GarageBand, and sync your iPad with the computer.
Click on the Apps tab in iTunes and then if your click on GarageBand – you will see your song.

You can also use the Share Song to icon to send your song to Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, iMovie or via email.

The good

Same great iPad interface, now in Retina
New jamming features makes for an incredibly fun, social experience
Additional instruments broaden GarageBand's range

The bad

Editing process is still a bit cumbersome and not always intuitive
iCloud still doesn't work as it should with the Mac (and might not until OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion launches later this year.

The bottom line

GarageBand for the iPad is an incredibly deep and powerful app to play around with. It was very easy to get lost in this app for hours and not really produce anything except a few hours of fun.

Once you master the feel of the app and learn how to record and edit, it really is possible to turn out some quality songs. Throw in the built in amplifiers and the ability to connect an electric guitar or just play an acoustic and use the built in mike and you have a great tool.

If you are a musician - for real or just in your own mind – this app will provide hours of fun.

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GarageBand is one of pre-installed applications which we find on our Apple devices. In a nutshell GarageBand is a digital audio workstations for macOS and iOS devices that allows users to create audio files. But not many users actually have the need of this software. On the other hand GarageBand annoyingly occupies a lot of the already less amount of storage space available on iOS devices. In this article we are going to learn How to remove GarageBand from Mac and iOS. Read along to find out!

But before we move forward with the methods to remove GarageBand, let us first take a look at it’s features. In this way you can make an informed decision on whether you want to remove GarageBand or not. In case you’re interested in the methods itself, feel free to skip straight to the ‘How to’ section.

Contents

2 How To Uninstall GarageBand on Mac
3 How to Delete GarageBand Library Files, Caches & Preferences on Mac

GarageBand: Features

We already know that GarageBand is essentially a audio creating and editing software tool. Let us take a deeper look and learn about its features.

Audio Recording
Virtual Software Instruments
Guitar features
MIDI editing
Music lessons
Additional audio loops
Third party instruments and Apple loop packages
Sample multi track source file

Now that we have learnt about the essential features of GarageBand, you must have already probably decided whether you fancy it’s exciting features or not. In case you still don’t, read below to find out about methods to get rid of it.

How To Uninstall GarageBand on Mac

So here are some of the best and simple methods to uninstall Garageband from Macbook.

Method 1. Drag GarageBand icon to the Trash

The easiest method to delete garageband is to move it to trash.

Click on Applications on the left hand side.
Now, Select GarageBand.
Drag GarageBand to the Trash

Or instead of dragging you can simply right click on it and then select Move to Trash option.
Right click the Trash icon
Select Empty Trash option

Method 2. Delete GarageBand in the Launchpad

Another simple method to remove garageband from MacOS.

Open Launchpad
Type GarageBand in the search box.
Click and hold GarageBand icon with your mouse until it begins to kind of wiggle.
Nox click the “X” that appears on the upper left corner.

Method 3. Launch GarageBand built-in uninstaller

Yes, it does come with an uninstaller.

Double click on GarageBand to open it.
Double click on the uninstaller package and and run it.
Follow the onscreen prompts to uninstall the software.

Also Read: How to Free up Space on Mac

How to Delete GarageBand Library Files, Caches & Preferences on Mac

Even after removing Garageband, The library files and other cache files still remain. Here are ways how you can clear those files.

Part 1. Top Level Library on Hard Disk: /Library

Open Finder
Click on the Go from the Menu Bar
Select Go to Folder.
Type the path of the top level Library on hard disk: /Library
Press Enter Key.

Search for the items with the name of GarageBand in the following locations:
- - /Library
  - /Library/Caches
  - /Library/Preferences
  - /Library/Application Support
  - /Library/LaunchAgents
  - /Library/LaunchDaemons
  - /Library/PreferencePanes
  - /Library/StartupItems

Right-click the matched files or folders
Select the Move to Trash option.

Part 2. User Library inside Home Folder(~/Library)

Navigate to Go
Now select Go to Folder
Type ~Library in the box
Press the Enter key.
Identify and delete the similar named files or folders in the same set of folders:
- ~/Library
- ~/Library/Caches
- ~/Library/Preferences
- ~/Library/Application Support
- ~/Library/LaunchAgents
- ~/Library/LaunchDaemons
- ~/Library/PreferencePanes
- ~/Library/StartupItems

Empty your Trash.

That’s it. All files are now removed.

How to remove GarageBand from iOS

Do you wish to remove garageband from iPhone or iPad? Here are the ways;

Locate the GarageBand app icon on your Home screen.