New GarageBand app turns Apple devices into music-making instruments - News in photos

Posted Jun 07, 2012

Apple earlier this year upgraded its popular GarageBand app for the new iPad, introducing a feature called Jam Session, which turns the iPads iPhones and iPod touches into music-making machines. the app allows users on as many as four iPads, iPhones or iPod touches to “play” songs together, record and edit them, then share them through iCloud, iTunes, e-mail or SoundCloud. Here’s how it works: One of the four players acts as the “bandleader,” who then “invites” the other three musicians to join in. Connected by either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, the four play along while a measure-count bar at the top of each screen keeps the beat. Users play either realistic-looking “touch” instruments or the “Smart” feature, which lets you add synthesized sounds of violins, cellos and other instruments.

Click here to listen to “Eastside Shuffle,” written and performed by the J.C. Smith Band.

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