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Transform your iPad into a touch screen controller for GarageBand on the Mac
Do you use Garageband '11 or '09 on your Mac and want to make song creation, evaluation and recording more productive? With the gbTouch iPad music app, you can control many GarageBand functions easily from your iPad's touch screen. Spend less time at the computer and more time making music!
Love the look and feel of vertical faders and rotary knobs? Then our new Mixer theme is for you! Give your iPad a studio mixing board look with this new layout option.
gbTouch now has 4 major theme styles: Texture (default), Mixer, Minimal and Steel
A version of Steel with GarageBand '09 transport button layout is also available. SImply pick your choice anytime by going to the iPad Settings app, click on gbTouch, and pick your style in the 'Themes' list.
Click on the arrows or a thumbnail in the slideshow below to see a sample of the gbTouch screen styles.
gbTouch 3 lets your iPad control your most used GarageBand functions
Use the large Transport buttons to quickly move around your song, Playback, Record, or enable the Cycle.
Individually select, mute or solo tracks & adjust their volume.
Use the arrow keys to view more tracks in your song. Track names are displayed and tracks are color coded for software (green) vs. real (blue) instrument tracks.
Quickly move the Playhead; Set the Cycle Start and End points
Press in the LCD display to adjust tempo or go to a specific location in your song
Adjust Effects with the Track Edit screens
Numeric values displayed for both track volume and track pan and change on fader movement.
Features (bold = new in gbTouch 3.1)
- Control transport functions (Backward, Forward, Beginning, Play, Record, Cycle)
- Enable/disable record, mute, and solo for each track
- Track names and numbers shown on each track
- Tracks color coded for real and software instruments
- Select current track with one touch
- Access more than eight tracks with the arrow keys
- Adjust volume of individual tracks, and overall with Master Volume
- Adjust pan level for an individual track
- View values for track volume and track pan
- Disable all volume during playback with Volume Mute
- Move the playhead quickly using the jog channel strip
- Designate Cycle start and end points
- Turn off all track record, mute and solo attributes
- "LCD display" dynamically shows playhead location - user selectable measure or time format - or project info (tempo, time signature)
- Change tempo
- Adjust the playhead to a specific time based location (enabled by preference setting - see manual for this feature's limitations)
- Adjust the playhead to a specific bar-beat location
- Show/hide the Arrange View or Master Track
- Enable/disable Metronome and Count-In
- Create a new track, duplicate or delete a track
- Undo or Redo an action
- Save a GarageBand file
- Adjust Master Echo and Reverb effects
- Manipulate Compressor, Visual EQ & software instrument's sound Generator parameters
- Enable/disable effects
- Name of the currently selected track shown on the Track Edit screens
- Preference setting for faders to “jump” on touch
- Dismiss GarageBand alerts from gbTouch
- Theme selectable: select one of four themes (five including GarageBand '09) at any time to change the look of your app
- Mixer theme preference setting for circular vs. vertical response
- Supports installations of gbLink on multiple computers
Steps to Getting gbTouch Ready for Use
You will need to do a few ESSENTIAL preliminary steps that will only take a few minutes to get gbTouch operational. These steps are needed because gbTouch requires a (free) companion application called gbLink that is installed on the Mac where you have GarageBand. These steps usually only have to be done once, and then you can use gbTouch just like any other iPad app. You can read more about this in the user manual or watch the Getting Started video (on the Tutorials page).
Please also make sure you have all the requirements before purchasing gbTouch.
- While using the Internet browser ON YOUR MAC in which you have GarageBand installed, go to the gbTouch product page on the Delora website: www.delora.com/delora_products/gbtouch/gbtouch.html (this page). Scroll down to the blue box at the bottom and click on the gbLink icon. You will be taken to a page to type in a security code, and gbLink will download to your computer. You cannot download and install gbLink using your iPad.
- The file in your Download folder will be a ZIP file called gbLink. Double click on it to extract it, then double click on the gbLink.mpkg file and OSX will walk you through the installation screens
- Go to System Preferences on your Mac and click on the gbLink icon. You will see a preference pane. Click on the "Run" button, and 3 green segments will appear in the middle of the screen
- Close System Preferences
- Go to the Settings application on your iPad and make sure Wi-Fi is ON for the same Wi-Fi network that your Mac uses
Start GarageBand on your Mac. You are now ready to open up gbTouch and start using it on your iPad.
gbLink - Required for gbTouch
You must download gbLink using a web browser (like Safari) on your Mac, then install it on the Mac where you run GarageBand (not your iPad). You also need Wi-Fi.
Current Version: 3.1.0
Version 3.1.0 is required for:
- gbTouch 3.1
- gbRemote 1.1
