GarageBand
© 2011 Apple
Turn your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch into a recording studio, complete with a set of touch-driven instruments. Instruments include real-sounding pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses. The music you make can be captured and played back with different sound effects; up to eight tracks can be mixed in the studio. Content includes 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects, two time signatures (3/4 and 6/8 time), the ability to record your voice using the built-in microphone and apply fun sound effects, and a sampler that lets you create an instrument from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard. Besides the two octave keyboard, there's a guitar fretboard, electric or upright bass and several drum sets. If you're feeling lazy, you can use one of the 250 professionally prerecorded loops. Songs can be emailed right from GarageBand (AAC), or exported to your iTunes library on your Mac or PC. You can send a project to your Mac and open it in GarageBand to continue refining your song if you like, using the computer version. This is a Universal app designed for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
$5, iPad, iPhone
Teaches: music, creativity