Which FREE software daw would you recommend for Ipad and / or Chromebook school users?

[dark water]

Hello everyone,

I'm a Windows PC user and I'm now fairly confident about knowing which DAWs I like for PC computer music lessons in schools.
(My recommended free DAW for PC computers in schools is probably MuLab).

But I don't personally have or use an ipad or Chromebook, both of which seem to be popular and used frequently in primary schools etc.

I've been doing some research into good FREE daws for Ipads and Chromebooks on the internet, but it would also be very useful if any of you KVR members had used, and would kindly recommend, a FREE daw for ipads and / or Chromebooks.

Effectively what I'm looking for is something that is:
* full free software (not a trial or demo)
* allows users to open and save files
* allows users to create at least 4 tracks in an arrangement
* allows users to play a few software instruments
* allows users to edit (midi or equivalent) tracks
* if possible, also allows users to record live audio


For PC, the daw Mulab 7 (rather than the newer version Mulab 8!) meets all of these requirements.
However, I now find myself teaching lessons with ipads and Chromebooks instead.


Many thanks in advance for your helpful FREE daw recommendations for ipads and / or Chromebooks.

[sprnva]

For iPad the obvious answer is Garageband. I'll let someone else recommend a Chromebook DAW as I have no experience with those.

[martinjuenke]

Garageband is an obvious choice when using an iPad, yes.

[chk071]

TBH, I'd scratch the idea of teaching on a Chromebook. I don't even know if low latency real-time audio is possible on those, AND, you'd be limited to Android apps, or, if you're very lucky, a Linux DAW will run on it.

I'd do it on a Surface Go (would be my first choice), or an iPad.

[dark water]

Thank you for your replies sprnva, martinjuenke and chk071.

I'll follow your advice and plump for Garageband on an ipad (and I'll check out Surface Go as well).

Cheers

[kvotchin]

It seems you might be able to install LMMS, Ardour or Audacity (possibly others too..?) on Chromebooks, via “Linux Beta”, which provides a sandboxed Linux environment within, presumably, the Android OS.

It could be a case by case thing, per device. I honestly wouldn’t know.

Anyway, if you could make sure everyone was using an iPad, even older ones, Garageband is, as has been mentioned a few times, the obvious choice. Pretty amazing for freeware.


edit: Oh, just saw your reply, OP. Well, who knows, might be useful info for someone.

[dark water]

Thank you kvotchin.
I'll follow up your idea for Chromebooks as well just because it will be handy to know the answer for the future in case this school's (or another future school's) ipads are unavailable / not working and I need to resort to Chromebooks (which seem fairly ubiquitous in British primary schools!).

Cheers