Apple Celebrates Chinese Music with GarageBand Update
May 16 2016 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Apple® today announced an update to GarageBand® that celebrates
the rich history of Chinese music with new instruments and
extensive Chinese language localization throughout the app.
Building on GarageBand’s extensive collection of sounds, this
update adds traditional Chinese instruments — the pipa, erhu and
Chinese percussion — along with 300 Apple-created Chinese musical
loops, giving users the power to tap into their creativity and make
beautiful Chinese-inspired music right on their iOS device or Mac®.
GarageBand for iOS users also get two new Chinese templates for
Live Loops, and new sharing options to popular Chinese social
networks, so they can easily share their music creations with
friends and followers across QQ and Youku.
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“GarageBand is the most popular music creation app in the world
and we’re excited to introduce these new features that incorporate
the rich history of traditional Chinese music,” said Susan
Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Product Marketing. “By adding
classic Chinese instruments and new Live Loop templates, the new
GarageBand app makes it fun and easy to make Chinese-inspired music
right on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.”
“As a musician I'm always looking for ways to take my music in
new directions and GarageBand has been such a great tool for me to
experiment and add new elements to my songs on-the-go,” said
award-winning music artist JJ Lin. “I love how the latest update to
GarageBand adds traditional Chinese instruments along with brand
new loops so I can play around with mixing traditional and modern
sounds to create completely new styles.”
The pipa, erhu and Chinese percussion instruments in GarageBand
can be played on iPhone® or iPad® using Multi-Touch™, and on Mac
through the built-in Musical Typing feature or by connecting a
third-party USB music keyboard. Each instrument includes different
playing articulations, including rapid picking and note bend for
pipa, and trill, grace note and glissando for erhu, making it
incredibly easy for a novice to create a realistic and expressive
performance. iPhone users can also use 3D Touch™ with the erhu and
pipa to dynamically control vibrato and intensity, and both the
pipa and erhu include Autoplay, letting users tap on any chord and
get a complete, rich performance. Users can also play a collection
of Chinese percussion instruments including drums, wood blocks,
cymbals and gongs.
This update adds 300 Apple-created loops from a variety of
instruments and styles, including guzheng, dizi, yangqin and Peking
Opera, to the library of Chinese musical content in the app. These
loops can be mixed and matched with Chinese instruments in
GarageBand to create traditional music or entirely new styles.
GarageBand for iOS also supports Live Loops, a new and intuitive
way to create music by simply tapping cells and columns in a highly
visual grid to trigger different looped instruments and samples.
And, Live Loops in this update adds two new Chinese Live Loops grid
templates, one traditional and one modern, showcasing a variety of
Chinese instruments and percussion that are all playable via the
Live Loops grid.
Chinese localization is also significantly enhanced across the
entire app, with all sounds, loops and instruments now translated
to Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese.
Pricing & Availability
Today’s GarageBand 2.1.1 for iOS and GarageBand 10.1.2 for Mac
updates are free for all existing users, and GarageBand is
available for free with all new iOS and Mac devices. Customers with
older, non-qualifying devices can purchase the app for $4.99 via
the App Store® and Mac App Store. Users in Greater China will see
these new features by default on iOS and OS X® after updating.
Outside of Greater China, these new features are visible by default
on OS X and can be enabled on iOS devices in the advanced settings
menu. For more information about GarageBand for iOS, visit
www.apple.com/ios/garageband and for more information about
GarageBand for Mac, visit www.apple.com/mac/garageband.
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