Being a musician, portable recording and listening devices have been used for generations. Apple's Garageband application for Ipad has some pretty nice features for a portable mixing and recording device. First, you can create numerous musical related projects on it.
Podcasting is a snap on the application. You can pull in sounds from a prerecorded library on the tablet, or record your own. You set up your bumper music, record your podcast quickly, save it and take it with you to edit of complete. Then it uploads to itunes when you sync your Ipad.
The sampler can record any sound an turn it into a musical instrument. It reminds me of the composer that recorded frog sounds one summer night, and then created Christmas carols using the sample as a musical voice. Mix this track with more traditional instruments such as drums and bass, and you end up with a musical masterpiece.
Recording live voices and instruments is easy to do, however, the quality may be somewhat limited due to the very small size of the microphone. This can be edited and tweaked a little bit, yet for such a small mic, the recording quality is good enough to record your ideas and then improve them with a better mic on the Mac version of the App.
Apple has done a great job and allowing users to understand form in music by labeling Sections using a puzzle piece such as "A", "B", or "C" composers can now work entire segments of a musical idea without having to get bogged down in the music theory concepts that can be confusing to novice and younger musicians. Two part song writing, or three part song writing becomes easier to organize for the writer, and allows the composer to focus on one segment at a time while they develop their ideas.
This program allows a musician of any age to create, record, edit, mix, and produce their own music on a portable device they can carry with them and work when musical inspiration hits them. Can you imagine how more music Bach or Beethoven could have written with such an application.
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