Is this really one of Apple’s official spokespeople for GarageBand? That’s what The Verge says in this T-Painful tutorial that teaches us next to nothing about today’s Garageband update. An update that by the way actually introduces some interesting new features for users of the audio production suite Apple bundles with its iOS devices and Macs.
T-Pain says he’s using GarageBand for his latest recordings, which is notable considering the app is known as an amateur version of Apple’s professional Logic Pro audio suite. As for sharing his tips on the new Live Loops feature, T-Pain explains, “this makes when dealing with the loop sounds, it makes it easier… if you’re feeling a little bit randy and want to add some help… let’s say you can, uh, let’s say anyone of these randomly, and that’s already recording into GarageBand. And boom.”
And on the new Drummer feature, “…what I like to do… bam… basically, Drummer is effortless… didn’t have to do anything… he made the whole thing for me.” Helpful.
The headline feature for the app update today was the new support for Apple’s larger iPad Pro— it previewed a new UI that takes advantage of the increased screen real estate on the 12.9-inch tablet, but hadn’t until today made it available. And the update also introduced support for 3D Touch features on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. But the features that T-Pain does a pretty horrible job of demoing in the video below are the new Live Loops and Drummer features.
Live Loops is a sampler with a familiar drumpad-like UI that allows for on-the-fly, live sampling and it comes with a library of stock Apple samples to start you off. While Drummer, a feature it previously introduced for GarageBand and Logic users on the Mac, is a feature that analyzes your song and intelligently adds drum tracks using a number of built-in and customizable presets. You’ll see both features briefly in T-Pain’s walkthrough above, which I can only imagine Apple had absolutely nothing to do with.
Today’s Garageband update came alongside a brand new app release from Apple, a voice memos-like app called “Music Memos” that adds in features specifically for songwriters.
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Clearly, the Apple PR team did not direct this whatever-this-is from the Verge. Even the Verge editors should have watched this and demanded a new shoot with some other talent. And by the way, who the hell is T-Pain?
You are kidding right? With the “who the hell is T-Pain?” comment? Lol I hope this is sarcasm.
No, I have never heard of that person. Who the heck calls himself T(ooth)-Pain? And he is not making music, its just a fat fella talking fast with a filthy mouth and a synth in the background. That aint music ;)
spiffers said, “And he is not making music, its just a fat fella talking fast with a filthy mouth and a synth in the background. That aint music”.
Meanwhile //jason pointed out that T-Pain is a two-time Grammy winner so while it may not be music to you it’s clearly resonating with people. Granted he’s been a lot more low-key since his debut days with Chris Brown but he’s extremely talented and deserving of all his success.
But yeah, this video was terrible with a ‘T’. I couldn’t even watch it all. Too cringe-worthy to get passed the first few minutes.
I’m in love with a stripperrrrrrr
2x Grammy award winner rapper.
Seems odd that Apple would use T-Pain (whoever the heck that is) via the Verge to promote the new GarageBand app. My guess is this didn’t come from Apple.
Again, I hope that is sarcasm. I mean T-Pain popularized the overuse of Auto-tune in modern electronic music for the past decade.
Thanks for the explanation, that is a very good reason not to know him… unless you want someone to blame.
I think 9to5Mac is making a huge assumption without any facts to suggest this was approved by Apple in the first place. I’ve never seen T-Pain used by Apple in any situations.
By facts, I meant evidence.
Welcome to Tech ‘Journalism’.
Well, Apple did give the software before the release, so they have to have a tiny bit to do with this…
I’m not so sure- from the way it is being demoed, it looks like he hadn’t used it until 5 minutes previously
The software was released to everyone, there was no pre-release stuff.
Read The Verge article:
“T-Pain works with Apple to promote GarageBand, and I’m here at his house, just outside Atlanta, Georgia, to see what he can do with the app’s latest iteration. He’s been playing around with an update to GarageBand for the past week that few other people have access to.”
At the end of the article: “Correction: T-Pain works with Apple to promote GarageBand but has never been paid to do so, as this article previously stated.”
So I assume T-Pain is in the development loop, to give feedback as an artist. But since he doesn’t get paid, I doubt Apple has a lot of influence on what he says in interviews.
iOS only? Might want to mention that in the article :|
Interesting that Apple went with an Ableton Live kind of loop triggering layout grid, but they have the progress of strips of loops (“Scenes” in Live) go left to right instead of top to bottom in Live.
This move really highlights how big loop triggering is now in music, and I’m glad to see Apple embrace how so much of popular music is created today. And even better, since Live isn’t available for iPad, I’m glad to see a similar grid layout triggering scheme come to iOS.
you know what I’m sayin, ugh how many times does he drop that in this idiotic vid of nothing… nothing! how long before this comes down?
Edumacation.
Seriously! Who is T-Pain? I shouldn’t need to look him up.
Diversity. Dumbing down the masses one app at a time.
????? This isn’t even a tutorial, this is an impromptu runthrough by the Verge with some artist. The way some of you are glomming on to the nitpicky criticism of grammar in this article is questionable… Except in your case, sardonick, you’re just a racist pr••.
> Is this really one of Apple’s official spokespeople for GarageBand? That’s what The Verge says in this T-Painful tutorial
Where? I couldn’t see this at all.
This isn’t suppose to be an instructional video anyway. It’s just spose to be a funny T-Pain interview.
In the article from The Verge:
“T-Pain works with Apple to promote GarageBand, and I’m here at his house, just outside Atlanta, Georgia, to see what he can do with the app’s latest iteration. He’s been playing around with an update to GarageBand for the past week that few other people have access to.”
At least it was the regular cringe-worthy Verge content. 10/10