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Raaj ban for iPad is remarkable it's got touch instruments you can plug in a guitar and play real instruments if you want but it's got touch instruments that I think are gonna be a huge hit with our users guitar amps and effects eight-track recording and mixing over 250 loops you can add to your songs you can email files around of your song to anybody and it's compatible with the Mac version so if you want to start something on your iPad and finish it on the Mac no problem a launch GarageBand and the first thing you see is an instrument browser so these are all the touch instruments Steve just mentioned and you can just swipe to tap through them and it's incredible they turn the iPad itself you know musical instrument that you can play wherever you go now go ahead and bring up a keyboard to start showing this off and you can see this beautiful grand piano comes up and it fills the display and the keyboards not just a grand piano I can tap on that icon right in the middle there and you can see all the sounds that are built in there are organs electric piano clavinet look at this a whole bunch of great synthesizers that are really really fun to play well iPad has an accelerometer built in and we use that to measure the force that my finger strikes the display so GarageBand knows if I tap something really soft or really hard and we use that throughout the app and that lates lets us create these instruments that are incredibly expressive and fun to play now this one is set up in a way that when I tap a key and I slide my finger up and down the rest of the keys it's gonna glide between the notes it won't play the individual notes and we've added a blue dot that's gonna follow my finger so you can see exactly what I'm doing so I can tap a note and slide the note up alright boys stuff like that pretty cool huh a lot of these smart instruments have this autoplay dial and I can just go ahead and dial up a pattern the strings fade away now I have these big bars so the only decision I make is which chord do I want to play and look what happens with one touch of a finger when it's happened one of these chords let's choose any chord and that cool the next thing is recording let's say we we have an idea we want to capture it so we can hear it later recording and GarageBand for iPad it's incredibly simple you can see right at the top of the screen that bright red button that's in every touch instrument so all we have to do is tap on it we'll get a count in I'll just play the part again all right you can see that now in the music timeline up here we can see the area in green that shows me where my recording is gone and I can go ahead and play it back sounds just like I played it so you can tell really easy to do a recording so that's just a quick look at GarageBand for iPad it turns your iPad into a complete recording studio and a collection of these incredible touch instruments and we just can't wait to hear all the creative things that people are going to do once they get this in their hands Thank You GarageBand for iPad $4.99