
And a new FX pane (!) slides out from the side of the screen and gives you a Visual EQ that will be very familiar for Logic Pro users. Like in Logic, you can now just keep recording and have multiple takes automatically organized into a folder for auditioning and editing after.Ī redesigned Audio Recorder gives you one-tap access to effects including pitch correction, distortion and delay. Recording gets supercharged in 2.2 with multi-take recording. The first thing you’ll notice in the new app is the sound browser–the carousel that lets you flip through virtual instruments– has been redesigned and cleaned up with better organization. Perhaps most notably, version 2.2 of GarageBand for iPhone and iPad introduces a mobile version of the Alchemy virtual synth that it picked up through its Camel Audio acquisition and first integrated into Logic last summer. And you don't have to use the sounds "as is" - tweak them more to your tastes and your tracks.Alongside an update for Logic Pro X today to version 10.3, GarageBand for iOS is also getting an update that introduces Logic integration, a refreshed design, and a handful of new features.

The sounds are there to be used in whatever way you see fit, but not everything can be used to make synth riffs or piano parts. You can always try playing different notes if you want to match up some of these textural elements by ear to more fit in key with your track, or you can experiment with the tuning of the various elements (and also the x-y pad variations). As Alchemy is a deep instrument that can work as a more traditional analog synth, all the way up to a sophisticated sample mangler and resampler, there are a range of patches that cover a range of use cases. If you have a weird sound made from running a sample of a bus engine through a granular process and a lot of delay, it often doesn't have a root note or even a more conventional concept of pitch.



Many of those things come from samples, and either have a sound quality of intentional dissonance, or they are intended more as textural elements, rather than for playing melodies with.
