On Thursday Apple announced that users of iPhone and iPad will now be able to learn the art of remixing right within GarageBand with two all-new Remix Sessions, offering step-by-step video instruction and featuring hit songs from Grammy Award-winning artists Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga.
Apple announced Garageband for iPhone and iPad
GarageBand is a line of digital audio workstations for macOS, iPadOS, and iOS devices that allows users to create music or podcasts. The software was released by Apple 17 years ago, in 2004.
Apple said that musicians will also now be able to create songs with seven new Producer Packs full of beats, loops, and instruments created just for GarageBand by some of the world’s top producers, including Boys Noize, Mark Lettieri, Oak Felder, Soulection, Take A Daytrip, Tom Misch, and TRAKGIRL.
“GarageBand continues to be a catalyst for music creation — making it easy for novices to get started and for seasoned pros to develop their ideas on the go,” said Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
“For this update, we’ve collaborated with an incredible group of artists and producers to give musicians an amazing collection of new sounds to play with, and we hope even more people will be inspired to tap into their creativity and start making music in GarageBand,” he added.
Art of the Remix with Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga
GarageBand with two new in-app Remix Sessions, featuring world-renowned artists, Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga, will now be available to develop the remix skills.
Each session includes inspirational videos from each of these famous artists telling the stories behind their hit songs — “Break My Heart” (Dua Lipa) and “Free Woman” (Lady Gaga). The sessions will also include step-by-step remix instructions led by an Apple Retail Creative Pro using a GarageBand Live Loops version of each song.
Anyone will be able to interact with these hits just as an artist would in the studio — hearing isolated vocals, beats, and individual instruments that provide the foundational elements of a song. This includes touch instruments and thousands of Apple Loops available in GarageBand. Users will get to let their creativity run wild, taking their remix in any direction from Hip Hop to EDM, or any combination of sounds they want to include in their remixes.
This is what the two artists had to say about GarageBand:
“It’s amazing to see Apple bringing my music to life in GarageBand, so now anyone can experience how I made ‘Break My Heart’ no matter where they are. Music has the power to bring people together, and this is doing that in such an exciting way. I personally can’t wait for people to have a lot of fun experimenting and coming up with different versions of my song,” Dua Lipa said.
“GarageBand is my idea bank and where I start my songwriting, so I’m excited to make my song ‘Free Woman’ available as a Remix Session. I want musicians and music lovers to be able to see how a song is produced and be able to hear all the individual parts, and then put their own creative color on it, doing whatever they want in GarageBand,” Lady Gaga said.