Garageband comes to the Iphone and Ipod touch

FRUIT THEMED Apple has released its Garageband music creation app for its mobile devices, the Iphone and Ipod touch.

The app, which turns budding musicians if not competent ones into recording artists, has been a popular entertainment title for the cappuccino company, and it turned up on the Ipad earlier this year.

It is a neat application and as well as offering virtual drums, keyboards and guitars to noodle away on, it also lets users plug real instruments into their handsets with some sort of Apple-approved adaptor and record them on as many as eight tracks.

"Garageband on Ipad has been a big hit and we think customers will love using it on their Iphone or Ipod touch," said Philip Schiller, Apple's SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing.

"The innovative Multi-Touch interface combined with Smart Instruments makes it easy to create great sounding music, even if you've never studied music or played an instrument before."

Garageband 1.1 for Iphone and Ipod touch costs £2.99 for new users and Apple is offering it as a free update for existing Garageband for Ipad customers. µ