This one I came across when I was making song track pitch adjustments.
If you have a large monitor like I do and your song only has a few
tracks, it can make it hard to see where your song tempo and song
pitch adjustments are in relation to the segments of your song....
Grab the resize window area at the bottom right of Garageband, and
pull it up so that the master track is right up close to your song
segments... and bingo... you can see your overall song adjustments in
the master track much easier in relationship to your song segments!
Svend
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posted by jaggerdiggydog
have fun always! AND experiment!! do what is not obvious!
Svend (Garageband Hints and Tips Creator)
(posted by jaggerdiggydog)
The problem with this approach is that when you can record something,
it is nice to play all the layered sounds together while you record,
because it effects the way you play your piece... (you know... when
you play a piano sound, you play it a certain way, because as you hear
what you're playing, you immediately change how you are playing it...
and if you are playing strings, that will be played totally differently)
Here is my workaround to make this a reality. (This assumes you have a
program like logic studio, that allows multiple instruments to be
played )
** this also assumes you like composing in garageband better than in
logic... I do... Garageband is much more "conducive" to me for
recording music.
So, open Logic, and set up your layered instruments...
open Garageband, and set up just one of the instruments above, and
record...
as you play, you will get all instruments playing, and your playing
will be based on this layered approach :)
then in Garageband, duplicate tracks and replicate the logic layered
sound and mix/balance sounds...
Let me know what you think!
Svend
(posted by jaggerdiggydog April 2008)
When recording a new track with all these key changes, it can be hard
to play the part with all the changes, so what I do is temporarily
turn off "master pitch" and then record my part, with no key changes,
and also, I am in my favorite key which is Em, so the parts play easy
for me (and I am not a trained keyboard musician... I just play by ear
with the playing ability I inherently have)
Ok... once your part is recorded, turn your master pitch back on and
you have a great new part, that will automatically change pitch as you
have set it up in your master track!
Let me know what you think!
Svend
(posted by jaggerdiggydog April 2008)
(posted by jaggerdiggydog)
To make creating new songs on Apple's Garageband even faster, I
create a Garageband file I call master. This file is preconfigured
with a variety of instruments I use often... piano, bass, a simple
drum loop, strings, percussion, vocal, guitar, etc... and I also set
up a master track with FX set the way I like (for me, long reverb, a
slight amount of compression and visual EQ set to reduce heavy bass
from entering output)
When I want to create a new song, I pull up this master file, and am
then ready to roll instantly!
Give it a try!
Svend (posted by jaggerdiggydog)
