Garageband Hints and Tips: Transposing song section in Garageband

Garageband Hints and Tips: Transposing song section in Garageband

There is a bug in Garageband that affects transposing, but the fix is easy...

Say you create a 4 bar recording of piano...

you then pull the right side of 4 bar section to repeat it over and over...

say you do this for 16 bars...

you now have a piano piece that is 16 bars long...

say you want to transpose song after 8 bars using the global pitch adjustment

you would simply move the pitch bar up a semitone, and you're done...

problem is... sometimes the pitch does not go up as it should (or down as the case may be)

the fix, is to take the 4 bar piano part, and pull it out to 8 bars...

then duplicate this bar and move it across to the right to create your 16 bars...

now the song with change pitch correctly at 8 bars, because the pitch change is at the boundary of a loop section!

hope this makes sense!

Give it a try!

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posted by jaggerdiggydog

Garageband Hints and Tips: Expanding on Earlier Tip of recording MIDI track and REAL track!

Garageband Hints and Tips: Expanding on Earlier Tip of recording MIDI track and REAL track!

here is the tip again for reference:

Garageband Hints and Tips: Recording Keyboards to Garageband

One of the normal set-ups in Garageband is a MIDI keyboard hooked up to your mac and this MIDI keyboard triggers the built in instruments.

Works great, and give you all kinds of cool editing choices after you have recorded your music.

Sometimes your controller keyboard has awesome patches in it and you want to record these to Garageband. Not a problem... simply hook up the outputs of your keyboard and input these into your mac and record to a REAL AUDIO track in Garageband.

What I like to do is ARM 2 TRACKS in Garageband and record a MIDI track simultaneously with your audio track!!! This offers up some cool possibilities!! It will allow you to layer up your real track with an instrument tract... or create a cool duplicate track to vary your song structure... etc...etc...

OK! now onto my new garageband hint and tip!

a cool variation of the above trick is to record an instrument track in garageband. Tweek it, correct timing, make it perfect!

Now, use MIDI IO plugin to output MIDI to your external keyboard that has it's own cool internal sounds.

Now set up a garageband track to record your external keyboard! Hit record and GB outputs your perfect MIDI track to your keyboard which then gets recorded back to GB!!

Way cool!

Give it a try!

hear my latest GB music...

http://soundcloud.com/svend007

Hope all you GB users are creating great music!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

http://www.svend.com

posted by jaggerdiggydog

Garageband Hints and Tips: Too Much Bass

Garageband Hints and Tips: Too Much Bass

I have noticed when i create songs in Garageband that the bass is sometimes heavy and boomy. The key to creating a tight bass track is to adjust the VISUAL EQ for all other tracks and tone down the bass. Then you can focus your efforts on getting a great bass sound from your bass track, and bass from other tracks won't be bleeding into your main bass track!

Give it a try!

hear my latest GB music...

http://soundcloud.com/svend007

Hope all you GB users are creating great music!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

http://www.svend.com

posted by jaggerdiggydog

Garageband Hints and Tips: Recording Keyboards to Garageband

Garageband Hints and Tips: Recording Keyboards to Garageband

One of the normal set-ups in Garageband is a MIDI keyboard hooked up to your mac and this MIDI keyboard triggers the built in instruments.

Works great, and give you all kinds of cool editing choices after you have recorded your music.

Sometimes your controller keyboard has awesome patches in it and you want to record these to Garageband. Not a problem... simply hook up the outputs of your keyboard and input these into your mac and record to a REAL AUDIO track in Garageband.

What I like to do is ARM 2 TRACKS in Garageband and record a MIDI track simultaneously with your audio track!!! This offers up some cool possibilities!! It will allow you to layer up your real track with an instrument tract... or create a cool duplicate track to vary your song structure... etc...etc...

Give it a try!

hear my latest GB music...

http://soundcloud.com/svend007

Hope all you GB users are creating great music!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

http://www.svend.com

Garageband Hints and Tips: Getting songs from iTunes into Garageband

Garageband Hints and Tips: Getting songs from iTunes into Garageband

It used to be easy to get songs from itunes to garageband. You would just drag a song from itunes to a Garageband empty track. Easy. The new way to get songs from itunes to garageband is almost as easy. Select the song in itunes. Use the menu command "SHOW IN FINDER" to see the song on your desktop. Now drag that song right into garageband empty track and you're done!! Almost as easy!

Give it a try!

hear my latest GB music...

http://soundcloud.com/svend007

Hope all you GB users are creating great music!

Svend

http://www.svend007.com

http://www.svend.com