Mar 24, 2020  The iPad Pro also uses the same Liquid Retina tech that you’ll find in the iPhone XR, and clocks in with a resolution of 2,732 x 2,048 in the 12.9-inch model and 2,388 x 1,668 in the 11-inch. Jan 09, 2016 I would love to see Apple update GarageBand for the iPad Pro. In fact, I would buy a more customized app specifically made for the iPP as I think there are a lot of nice features that could be utilized on this device. Aside from drawing, this was the app I was most looking forward to noodiling. Sample download for omnisphere 2. The 12.9-inch iPad Pro features an advanced Liquid Retina display that goes edge to edge. 1 Face ID, so you can securely unlock iPad Pro, log in to apps, and pay with just a glance. The A12X Bionic chip is faster than most PC laptops and easily runs pro apps.

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The iPad Pro will run all of the hundreds of thousands of tablet-optimized apps in the iOS App Store, but with Apple's 11-inch or massive 12.9-inch display, powerful Apple A12X processor, and optional Apple Pencil 2 and Smart Keyboard, it can run some of them better and faster than any iPad before it. Here are the iPad Pro apps you should check out right now!

Don't have an iPad Pro? No problem! You can run all of these apps on your iPad mini or iPad Air as well.

Procreate 3

Procreate has always been one of the best way for artists to draw or paint on the iPad, and with iPad Pro the team at Savage Interactive has made it even better. There's support for multi-app multitasking, of course, but there's also an updated interface to really take advantage of those big displays—including a massive new 16K by 4K canvas. Better yet, Procreate is all-in on Apple Pencil with all 128 brushes ready to take advantage of pressure sensitivity, tilt shading, and more. There's Quickline for straight lines, Pencil variable control, and the perspective tool as well. In other words, there's so much!

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Coda 2

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Coda on the Mac is how I've done web development—when I've had to do web development!—since it was released lo many years ago. It was a revelation: An impeccably designed, fully integrated environment to edit, audit, and transfer files for all of your sites. And then the developers, Panic, went and did the inconceivable: They brought it all to iPad. Now, they've optimized it for iPad Pro and multi-app multitasking so you can work on your sites in Coda on the left and preview them in Safari on the right. You can even trigger an update in Safari automatically right from Coda. It's a triumph. (It's also universal, so you get iPhone and iPad all in one.)

• $24.99 - Download now

Astropad Studio

Astropad lets you use your iPad as a graphics tablet for your Mac, and it works supremely well. Now, Astropad will also let you use your iPad Pro as a big graphics tablet. It works with Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Corel Painter, Manga Studio, Pixelmator, and more, so there's no need to get a separate surface for your computer. Your iPad Pro can serve double duty. And yes, it supports the Apple Pencil as well! Astropad Studio requires a subscription, you can pay $11.99 per month or $79.99 per year.

• Free - Download now

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft is still king of the Office apps and that's especially true for spreadsheets. If you've ever wanted to pivot a table or do any number of ledger-ly things, you've wanted to do it in Excel. What makes Excel for iPad especially great is that Microsoft prioritized it even over the company's own mobile devices, and that head-start has made it not only a good Office app, but a good iPad app. Heck, with split-view support, it makes it a great one. And Word, Powerpoint, and OneNote are no slouches either.

Note: Because iPad Pro has a bigger than 12-inch screen, Microsoft will reportedly require a subscription to Office 365 to enable editing features.

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Affinity Photo

A photo-editing tool like no other for the iPad Pro, Affinity Photo was front and center at the WWDC Keynote this year. All the editing tools you need to turn your photos into works of pristine art are at your fingertips — and Apple Pencil tip. With support for unlimited layers, layer groups, adjustment layers, filter layers and masks, you'll never overpower the software running on the iPad Pro's powerful A10X processor chip. Affinity Photo also has a huge selection of brushes to choose from and use with your Apple Pencil, and you can even make custom brushes on the fly — meaning you'll always have the tools at your disposal to achieve your desired effect.

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uMake

Umake lets you make things. Like cars. Seriously. It's sketching in 3D. It's sculpting with industrial design. It's as ridiculously cool as it sounds. It's one of those apps that only makes sense in an iPad world. You can try Umake out for free and if you love it, you can unlock the pro features in-app for $149.

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Paper 3

Paper turned the iPad into a visual notebook. Everyone from app and web designers to c-level execs to bloggers use it to develop and share their ideas. For iPad Pro, Paper has updated the—you guessed it!—paper, 'super-sizing' it to take advantage of the bigger displays. 53, the developers, have also updated the ink engine to take advantage of the Apple Pencil. That makes the already incredibly natural art tools even better.

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Adobe Comp

Adobe is optimizing several of the company's iPad apps for the iPad Pro so they can better take advantage of the bigger display and more powerful processor. Adobe Comp is one of the most interesting. It lets you quickly produce wireframes for everything from mobile apps to web designs to print layouts. The Apple Pencil is supported in a really cool way as well—it takes over object manipulation so your fingers can work as modifiers. It sounds complicated, but it looks impressive. Adobe is also offering Photoshop Sketch and Photoshop Fix, all ready for iPad Pro.

Note: They all require Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Omni Productivity Bundle

From the moment Steve Jobs introduced the original, Omni was all-in on iPad. And it shows. These aren't productivity apps transplanted. These are productivity apps re-imagined. You've got OmniFocus for task management, OmniPlan for strategizing, OmniGraffle for white-boarding, and OmniOutliner for getting your.. stuff together. You can get them all separately, and they've all been updated to support the iPad Pro, but you can also get them in the Omni Productivity Bundle and save. All my hearts, Omni.

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iMovie

On the iPad, iMovie is already amazing. On the iPad Pro, we're going to need a bigger superlative. That's because, thanks to the Apple A9X processor, iMovie on the iPad Pro can handle not one, not two, but three streams of 4K video all at once. Which is ludicrously great. Apple's other iPad apps also shine on the larger iPad Pro canvas, including GarageBand for music, and Keynote, Numbers, and Pages for presentations, spreadsheets, and documents.

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Pixelmator

With Pixelmator, users can play around with advanced photo settings like single-tap color correction presets, beauty and facial editors that can easily erase imperfections, blemishes, and unwanted objects, the ability to pinch, bump, twirl, or wrap areas of an image, the option to edit images of up to 100 megapixels, and so, so much more.

You can even use Pixelmator to paint images directly onto your iPad, turning your tablet into a digital canvas of sorts. You can pick and choose from over 100 artist-designed brushes, smudge color with your finger to blend like you would IRL, use eyedropper tools to isolate and perfect your colors, and really bring your creativity to the forefront of your digital artwork!

Once you're done editing your images with Pixelmator, or creating and painting your artwork, you can easily save your images with iCloud and instantly publish your final product to your Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts.

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There you have it, some of our favorite apps updated for iPad Pro. Lots more are on the way, so we'll keep updating this list. If we missed your favorite, let us know!

Updated November 2018: Added powerful photo-editing apps Affinity Photo and Pixelmator to the list!

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GarageBand User Guide for iPad

Using the Audio Recorder, you can record your voice, an instrument, or any other sound using the microphone on your iPad, and play it back in GarageBand. You can also record sounds using an external microphone connected to your iPad.

The Audio Recorder has two sets of controls you can use to change the sound. Fun view lets you quickly change the sound of your recording, while Studio view gives you more options to enhance your recording.

Switch between Fun and Studio view

• Tap the Fun or Studio button at the top of the Audio Recorder.

Record a sound

1. Tap the Record button in the control bar.

2. Play, sing, or make sound into the microphone.

3. When you are finish, tap the Play button in the control bar to stop recording. Tap the Play button again to hear your recording.

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Adjust the microphone input level

While you record, the In level slider on the left shows the input level from the microphone. If the level turns red, drag the slider down (or record the part again more softly) to prevent distortion.

1. Drag the In level slider up or down to set the input level.

   The In level slider is available if your iPad or input source supports input level control.

2. If the input device supports left and right channels, tap Channel button under the In level slider, tap Input 1 or Input 2 to select the input channel, or tap Stereo to record in stereo.

Set the input level automatically

When an external microphone or other audio device (such as a headset or an audio interface) is connected to your iPad, the input level can be set automatically.

• Tap the Input Settings button , then tap the Automatic switch.

Reduce unwanted noise

You can use a noise gate to reduce low-level input noise when you record. A noise gate cuts off the sound when it falls below a certain minimum level.

1. Tap the Input Settings button , then turn Noise Gate on.

2. Drag the Noise Gate slider until the noise stops or decreases to an acceptable level.

Turn on monitoring for an external microphone

When an external microphone or other audio device (such as a headset or an audio interface) is connected to your iPad, the Monitor button under the Out level slider becomes active.

• Tap the Monitor button to turn monitoring on. Tap the button again to turn monitoring off.

Change the sound using a preset

The Audio Recorder includes presets that appear after you record a sound. Each preset adds an interesting character to the recorded sound.

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1. Do one of the following:

   • In Fun view, tap or turn the dial to select one of the presets.

   • In Studio view, tap the icon in the middle of the screen and choose a preset from the list.

2. Turn the knobs to change the sound of the preset.

You can try out different presets by tapping them and turning the knobs.

Set the key and scale for Extreme Tuning

The Extreme Tuning preset is a popular vocal effect that changes the pitch of your recording based on your song’s key and scale settings.

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• Tap the Settings button , tap Key Signature, then tap a new key or a different scale (major or minor).

If the actual key or scale of your song differs from the key or scale setting, the effect might be less pronounced, or might change the pitch of individual notes in undesirable ways.