Can you compose songs in garageband?

Question

I have used Garageband on the iPad. On that you can actually create your own original songs, create tracks with chords very easily to back the song. But there does't seem to be any way to play chords easily on the Mac version, doesn't have preset rhythms for strumming guitar etc. so it seems that the stripped down version on the iPad/Iphone is actually better for creating your own tunes. The Mac version just seems to have loops that don't really help you compose your own songs. You would think the bigger Mac version would be even better, but it seems the bare bones iPad app is actually better for composing. Am I missing something? On the iPad you just press the chord keys and it plays chords to back your tune whether you're using the guitar, piano, orchestra with different rhythms of each.
If anyone has had success writing their own songs (and without real instruments) please let me know how you did, or if there's any good instructional videos on youtube (not the ones where they are making songs with all the loops and such) please let me know.
Thanks-Roy

Answer 1

painterroy wrote:
I have used Garageband on the iPad. On that you can actually create your own original songs, create tracks with chords very easily to back the song. But there does't seem to be any way to play chords easily on the Mac version, doesn't have preset rhythms for strumming guitar etc. so it seems that the stripped down version on the iPad/Iphone is actually better for creating your own tunes.
Roy,  if you own both an iPad and a Mac, and have GarageBand installed on both, then I suggest you download the Logic Remote app to your iPad.  You would then be able to play the instrument on the iPad, and lay it down (using Logic Remote) in a track in an opened project in GarageBand on the Mac.  This is, in my opinion, a pretty powerful set-up.  You get the utility of the touch instruments on the iPad, combined with the more powerful editing of your virtual instrument recording on the Mac.
Both the Mac and iPad need to be on the same wifi network in order to communicate with each other with Logic Remote.  Instead of using a router, where both devices would typically be communicating over a wifi network that might be connected to the Internet, I instead recommend--for the purposes of reducing latency and potential network interruptions--setting up a simple peer-to-peer wifi network created off of the Mac, which the iPad can join. 
It would be even better, as others have recommended elsewhere, if Apple would provide a hard-wired solution over which the iPad could communicate with the Mac, in order to eliminate the problems of latency or unexpected interruptions that a wireless connection can be subject to. 
Are you listening to your users, Apple?  Are you monitoring this forum to take suggestion improvements into consideration?
If you are monitoring this forum, Apple, can you kindly have someone address the problem I have described in the following thread?:
GarageBand creating blank space after song.