A cappella recording in Garage Band

Question

I am recording individual vocal tracks to produce learning tracks for a cappella arrangements.  I've done a cappella recording in a studio before (don't know what program was being used), and we used a pitch track to listen to while recording our individual parts, so that we could be assured of staying in pitch.  I've been looking for something similar in Garage Band.  I've found an AU Pitch plug-in and created a separate software instrument, but if it is intended to support one particular pitch, I can't figure out how to assign the pitch.  I know I can probably just create a separate audio loop of the pitch and put it on a separate track, but was hoping I could find something "built-in" so to speak.  Any suggestions?

Answer 1

leonieDF wrote:
A simple way to create exact pitches is to use a software instrument track and either recored the pitch you want by playing and recording it on the Musical Typing keyboard (Window > Musical Typing ⇧⌘K) or simply entering the note in the Track Editor by command clicking on the note in Piano Roll view.
Regards
Léonie
Well, I may have made this more difficult than necessary.  I had no problem creating a track with the pitch as you suggested.  But I thought it might be easier to create a loop rather than having to hold the key down for 3 minutes on the entire track.  I did create a new loop and extended it to the end of the track. The problem is that each time it repeats, the note repeats (it's not a continuous note, there's a bump) AND each loop sounds a little different than the previous one - like the effects are different.  It's not a big deal (it's usable) but if there's a way to fix it, enquiring minds want to know how to do that!  It's a software instrument and I used a synthesizer sound - it sounded more like a pitch pipe to me.  Don't know if that's part of the problem.
Any insights would be most appreciated!
;-Diane