Pix & Stix Help You Rock Out On GarageBand

If you own an iPad or iPad 2 and love making music, chances are you've got GarageBand. This is your lucky day because Pix & Stix are the only thing missing from your virtual set of drums and guitars. Pix & Stix promise to make your music making session feel like a real experience. The Pix & Stix pick has an electroconductive rubber tip for a more accurate, natural touch screen picking. The miniaturized drumsticks are perfectly weighted and have a soft-touch rubberized finish that won't damage your iPad. Just don't go all Travis Barker on your iPad. The Pix & Sticks come in a set of 2 drumsticks and 1 pick for $14.95, and are available in blue, black or yellow.

iMovie and Garage Band now on iPad

iMovie and Garageband are featured apps on iPhone and iTouch and also on OS X, but not yet on the iPad. With todays announcements Apple has said that they are brining iMovie and GarageBand to the iPad, which will be able to use the iPad 2's new A5 dual-core processor to its full potential. There are tons of features with iMovie, it has new themes, tweaked UI, and a home screen that looks like an old movie theater which shows previous project and theme templates. Gestures play a prominent role in editing the clips. Transitions are fully customizable, audio is also shown with full waveforms and able to include multitrack audio and import songs from iTunes. On Garageband the iPad studio has 8 different track recordings, 250+ loops and fully compatible with the Mac version. There are cool touch instruments like piano, synths, guitars and more. You can now plug-in a guitar and shred for real with virtual guitar amps and effects. When using the virtual instruments the harder you press on the screen the louder the instrument actually gets and plays a different sound. You are able to edit, with rearranging, trim, and edit it all from you finger tips. Both of these launch on March $11 for $5.