[RWP] ot: garage band on the IPhone

[colin McDonald]

oh, I think this is on an IPhone 4S or possibly 5, I don't remember.

regards
Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "colin McDonald" <blulemon at telus.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:11 PM
Subject: [RWP] ot: garage band on the IPhone


> this comes compliments of Danny Noonan, Sidney Australia:
> it's only an intro, but gives a really good idea of the power of garage 
> band on the IPhone using voice over.
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>
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> Well, I've been spending some time slowly working stuff out in the app and 
> am finally starting to get somewhere. I started looking round with a lot 
> of swiping and learnt a lot but obviously, the true usefulness of the app 
> is when you start doing some serious screen mapping.  Once I found where 
> the menu pops up after double tapping on an item/track and how to drag 
> items round, extend drum patterns etc, I started to think there may be 
> some decent product we can do in garage band after all. I wasn't sure for 
> a while because some things even when changed, ie, bar length of a 
> stretched drum item didn't update so I thought I hadn't done it correctly 
> to go press play and find it actually did work. Now, it's much easier. J
>
> I'll first give a partial layout of the main screen & then describe what 
> things do further on. Sorry but this will be a little eclectic.
>
>
> Firstly, with the iPhone in landscape mode with the home button on the 
> left side, starting at the top left of the screen directly under the top 
> edge/bezzle we have a section with 2 buttons/tabs. The "menu" button & to 
> it's right a toggling tab button which cycles between "Perform" and 
> "track" screens.
>
> Then in the middle section of this "for a better term, menu bar>, we have 
> the "rewind" button which is actually a jump to start and when an your 
> recording or playing, it turns into a stop button.
>
> Next is the "play" button which acts as stop as well when your playing
>
> And finally in the middle section, we have the "record" button. Self 
> explanetry if you ask me. <grin>
>
>
>
> Finally, we come to the third section in our menu bar. It feels like a 
> continuation but visually, it's separated even though the gap is the same 
> size and you can 1 finger swipe to it.
>
> First is the "Jam Session" button You can sync up with up to 3 other iOS 
> garage band devices and all play together. No idea how gimicky this is..
>
> Next is another toggle tab. This one cycles between "Loops" on the "Track" 
> screen & instrument settings on the "Perform"  screen.
>
> Last is the "Settings" tab.
>
>
>
> So, in both the "Perform" and "Track" screens you have  "Menu", 
> "rewind/stop", "play", "record", "Jam sessions" and  "settings"
>
> And in "Track you  have "Loop" or in "Perform" you have "Instrument 
> Settings".
>
>
>
> Now for a little breakdown of what each section does.
>
>
>
> The "Menu" button  opens a window to select either
>
> "my songs" which takes you to all the projects your working on where you 
> can rearrange, delete, make folders to organise or create new projects. 
> This is also where you can import tracks and is where you first turn up in 
> the app before selecting a project.
>
> Here you can also select "Instruments"  where  you can select instrument 
> types and then specific instruments such as different basses, guitars, 
> piano, keys organ etc.
>
>
>
> The perform tab is where you both play the instrument and can select scale 
> and or single note or chord. In instrument settings you can also edit 
> peramitors like sustain and arpegiate/chord for keyboard, synth editing 
> wheels, chord or note for guitar, & bass, solo or group for strings etc. .
>
>
>
> In the track tab you can add tracks, move tracks up & down rows, move 
> items between tracks and forward or backward along the time line. You can 
> also drag to trim or with a drum patern you've selected or made you can 
> even stretch it out longer so if you change from an 8 bar intro to a 12, 
> no problem. Double tap the right handle and pull it along an extra 4 bars. 
> You can also edit virtual instruments moving, removing, and generally 
> working with keys etc to fix mistakes make fine changes and things of that 
> nature. I have had a quick look but that isn't big on my ajenda as of yet. 
> I do think it's at least minimally usable how ever.
>
> In the song tab which is under "settings", you can set count in, click 
> on/off, sound for the click track as well as tempo.
>
> In the track tab you can set mute, solo, volume, pan, echo, revirb, 
> quantisation, transposition, and master effects. Now these will probably 
> change a bit from instrument to instrument. I'm sure a synth is different 
> to drums, organ                  , guitar, sampeler etc as they have 
> specific functions but you get the idea. It's nice that you can change a 
> track and then in any track settings go straight to the master to easily 
> see how the change sounds overall and be able to alter the master quickly. 
> And just this second I found in the top left of the screen the track 
> forward & track back buttons so you can move through tracks from within 
> the settings tab. So glad it isn't a go back a screen, select another 
> track and go back in or something.
>
> In the master settings you have echo & reverb with a bunch of choices. I 
> don't know if there are addon fx packs, if you can pay for extra 
> functionality or anything but it's only a phone I guess. <grin>
>
>
>
> That'll be all for now but when I get time I'll give a description of 
> screen layout in regard to track editing, touch instruments, edit menu 
> etc. Feel free to contact me off list, on twitter at
>
> @MoreThanDanny
>
> Or how ever if your having trouble with anything. Yes, I know this is very 
> rushed. The app is only just starting to start to take shape in my head 
> but I'm quite confident we can do quite a lot. Waight until I dewscribe 
> dropping loops onto track grids or actually making up drum patterns by 
> dragging drums onto a grid, moving them left or right for less or more 
> complex and up or down for louder or softer. Really cool. Great drum 
> machine for Vips for sure!.
>
>
>
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