Garageband, snap to grid and editing with precision

I'm *this* close to buying an iPad mini. The main reason is that I run a podcast and like the idea of editing it during my daily commute. I usually create the podcast with Garageband on my Mac, so was thinking Garageband on iPad would be the obvious app.
BUT when I tested it out today on a store iPad I could not figure out a way to turn of "snap to grid" when editing audio, which means that it's impossible to make precise edits to speech - you can't just cut and join wherever you like, only at 1/16-beat (or whatever) intervals.
I'm hoping that someone here who uses their iPad for audio editing will either tell me that 1.) I'm wrong, and you can in fact turn of the grid-snapping and edit audio with precision, or 2.) there's a different app for iPad that can edit audio with precision, ideally a multitrack editor. Double bonus points if the finished multitrack can be fine-tuned on a Mac later.
Anyone?

I wasn't able to find clean up by right clicking, but on the finder menu in view, clean up is present and it works. Problem fixed.
Thanks a lot galantesteve!

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