Get ready, street musicians: Today Apple released its popular music-making app GarageBand for the iPhone. Now you can jam away on a set of onscreen drums, or strum a touch-based Smart Guitar, to compose musical masterpieces wherever you may be.
T-Pain is bent over an iPad, dancing and tapping the screen to send glimmering electronic beats through huge speakers and out into the hallway of his home. We’re down in T-Pain’s basement studio, in a room filled with giant control boards, cases of equipment, and everything you’d need to put together a radio hit. But the only studio equipment T-Pain is using is his speakers — all the better to blast out the music he’s putting together in GarageBand.
Pocket-Lint: The GarageBand app on iOS, as formidable as it is, has for a good while remained little more than a means to irritate people on long car journeys. Launched alongside the iPad 2 and now updated for the new iPad, it is one of Apple’s showcase apps for new hardware.
Or, make an awesome recording of your five yr old niece singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" - ("whose feet were white as stone")