Beginner garage band question

I put something together (calling it a song is a stretch) in Garage Band for a function at my daughters school. It's supposed to play continuously for about 40 mins. It's 4 minutes long so I want it to loop 10 times. I did share to itunes and was able to get an mp3 on my ipod What is the best way to make this 4 min garage band song loop for 40 mins and play from a cd? Can I set Garage Band to loop 40 times and export to itunes?

IF, the song can be looped seamlessly, You can use the cycle function to make it loop endlessly. Once you have that going to your satisfaction, download a copy of the freeware Wire Tap, which will allow you to record an almost unlimited amount of time (I think it is only limited by the HD space you have availabel, and yes, you are looking at 400 megs easisy!) from any source on your computer. Make sure the very end of the song goes seamlessly to the beginning. Then, simply hit the record button on Wire Tap, and quickly the play button in GB, and then watch the clock. Stop the Wire Tap recording at 40 minutes, and voila! You have a single 40 minute loop of your song to burn to a CD, with no worrying about iTunes settings at all.

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I recently submitted a question re. the volume which when I send from Garage Band 2008

I recently submitted a question re. sharing music I create and send from Garage Band 2008 to iTunes 11.1.1. I create a slide show in iPhoto 2008 and export to Quicktime (latest version) and ultimately to YouTube. By the time the file gets to Quicktime, the volume has defaulted to a low level which is unacceptable. This never happened until I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard. How can I keep the volume? Must I update all of my iLife software?

export the exact length:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#exportexactlength
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

Ridiculously simple audio editing question for Garage Band

Ok, so this is really a fundamental
question. It concerns editing technique.
In analog mixing, the editor put
the sounds to be saved in the right
places on each of several tracks --
narration, sound effects, lip sync,
music, etc. The tracks were then
all locked together and the mixer
adjusted the volumes to either save
or reject audio information.
A blank master received the information
and that was your final product,
in sync, sprocket by sprocket, with
the video.
My question, then, is, how do you
do it in digital multitrack such as
Garage Band? Are you aiming to have
4 or 5 tracks all level controlled
or do you simple erase unwanted
sound, or what exactly do you do,
in post production? If you are going
to do a voice over, then you have to
do a mix at some point, not just a
cut and paste. What's the philosophy,
if you don't mind my asking?
Thanks,
Ed

Wow... you gave me flashbacks to a movie soundtrack I scored, with separate reels of tape all synced up and whirling away for final mixdown!
To answer your question as best I can in a paragraph or two, digital mixing is unlimited compared to analog. Whereas tape has a physical limit, you can always add another digital track (there are limitations to digital, but they are becoming harder to reach as systems become increasingly powerful). So no need to erase. Editing is also a breeze. Digital tracks are endlessly malleable, with virtually every parameter available for automation.
Sometimes you might mix down to stems or mix everything down to a stereo master (or alternative mixes) for post production. Similarly, in post, they can deal with huge numbers of digital tracks from different sources.
In terms of a professional workflow, Logic is the more typical choice over Garageband, and includes a number of features designed for scoring to picture: variable sample rates, frame rates, etc.
Gain staging in digital recording is different than in analog, and it requires a different approach to achieve excellent sounding results. But the digital workflow is so much more flexible, forgiving, and economical, that it has been the death-knell for the analog workflow. Infinite bussing, routing, mixing, comping, storing, stemming... infinite possibilities, really!

Legal Question: Can i use garage band in order to make a profit?

If for example i am making a movie and i plan on selling it and i want to use garage band for background music can i use it w/o the risk or being sued or something (e.g. copy write laws).
If u are going to answer this question please tell me in addition to what you think why you think this or how you know it.
Thanks!
-Josh

http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#commercialrelease

How do I reach MattMattMatt who attempted to answer my question about garage band?

I am having trouble removing a part of an instrumental track (within a region, not at the beginning or end of the whole track). MattMattMatt sent me this answer:
Put the big vertical pointer at the view point where you've had enough. Make a cut (Command T).
Ok, so far, so good.
Next, click anywhere else in the work area to deselect and then select the part you want to remove, and click it and delete.
Click what anywhere else? The vertical pointer? Use a choice in the Edit menu (cut? split?) ? What should happen on the screen at this point?
I've tried several things. Whatever I do when I click delete, the whole track (region) disappears. I start again...... no progress. I think I need a little more detail in the procedure you are describing to me. Forgive me, I'm new to Garage Band and so far it's been trial and error learning.

I thought I heard someone call my name.
digitalbev wrote:
I am having trouble removing a part of an instrumental track (within a region, not at the beginning or end of the whole track). MattMattMatt sent me this answer:
Put the big vertical pointer at the view point where you've had enough. Make a cut (Command T).
Ok, so far, so good.
Great. To confirm, where there was once one musical region, there should now be two subdivisions, one to the left and one to the right of where you cut it.
digitalbev wrote:
Next, click anywhere else in the work area to deselect and then select the part you want to remove, and click it and delete.
Click what anywhere else? The vertical pointer? Use a choice in the Edit menu (cut? split?) ? What should happen on the screen at this point?
I've tried several things. Whatever I do when I click delete, the whole track (region) disappears. I start again...... no progress. I think I need a little more detail in the procedure you are describing to me. Forgive me, I'm new to Garage Band and so far it's been trial and error learning.
No problem. Hopefully this will clarify.
After you've done the Command T and split the track where you want to split it, you want to refresh your clicker in advance of selecting and tossing the particular region you want to toss.
So...
move your cursor into the Neutral Region, the gray work area in the middle of the GB workspace where there are no tracks (and it likely says "Drag Apple Loops Here") and just click your mouse.
You're basically telling anything else that happens to think it's clicked to unclick. At this point, nothing should be selected.
Then, go back to your original region that you've split into two with the Command T. Of those two region, click on the one you want to get rid of. It will light up, telling you it's selected.
Then, click delete on your keyboard, and the selected region - and only the selected region - should dissapear.

Recording questions for garage band

Hi I thank you in advance for your help, advice or direction in assisting me correct my lack of knowledge.
I recently purchased a macbook and it came with garageband and frankly I love this program!!
I am having a little trouble though with my vocals, I am using a behringer eurorack (the small one) to phantom power my condenser mic and it's plugged directly into my macbook using the typical rca jack. I seem to be getting sort of some distorted really deep vocals out of this. Like instead of recording my energy it's more drowned out kinda layered below the beat. I am not sure what setting I should use for my mixer and the computer. I keep my lows, mids, and hi's kinda half way up on the mixer, my gain is all the way down and my mic output level is a few notches up maybe four bars or so. On garage band I have the mic volume set up almost as high as it can go. Any idea on how I can try to get my mic to sound as normal as possible? Levels you can recommend perhaps..
Man I owe you guys alot... i'm very appreciative of the help thus far.. Thank you all.

Then we've ruled out the chance that you were still recording with your internal mic (it happens more often than you'd think!)
I would suggest turning up the mids and highs if the tone is too deep. Also you should have your gain as high as you can get it without clipping (i.e. before the signal goes into your computer)

Questions about Garage Band

Hi Everyone
I am new here and want to buy a Mac to use with Garage Band and my home studio. I have never owned a Mac. I am a 100% Disabled Vietnam vet so I don't have a lot of extra cash. Hoping to spend around $200 or so.
I see many used Mac Laptops on EBay for sale.
What should I look for so that I can use software like Garage Band and music Notation software?
I am doing an interesting project. I am writing an albums worth of songs for the band I am putting together made up of all disabled veterans. I am reaching out to people like Gary Sinise and his Lt. Dan Band who helps many vets. Much of the proceeds of the album sales will go to Veterans Causes
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Don Parent

I am new here and want to buy a Mac to use with Garage Band and my home studio.
Don, when looking for used macs make sure, you get a Mac with an Intel processor and not a PowerPC.
Check the RAM, the mac has. Some macs have been sold with 2GB of internal RAM, that will never suffice. Try to get a Mac with at least 4GB RAM and the ability to upgrade this.
Older MacBook Pros had a line-in port as well as a line-out. Try to get one of these, and not a model with only one audio port. A late 2011 MacBook Pro would be perfect, but will maybe still be too expensive. But try to get a model, that can run the current MacOS X version 10.9.2, so you will be able to buy all software from the Mac AppStore and do not need to search for installer DVDs from third party retail sellers.

How do you add non-Garage band instruments into a Logic project so that you can hear them on playback?

How do you add non-Garage band instruments (orchestral instruments) into a Logic Pro (8) project so that you can hear those insrtruments' sounds on playback? I've tried to understand and follow the Logic Pro 8 User Manual, but the process comes off as so complex and the writing so technical that it does not help but only confuses.
To be precise - I want to add instruments (orchestral) that are not offered in the current Garage band menu which is offered in the Mixer's channel strip menus for Logic Pro 8. To be clear, the instruments that are offered are Bass / Drum Kits / Guitars / Mallets / Organs / Pianos and Keyboards / Synth Basics / Synth Leads / Synth Pads. Most of these that I've tried seem to work and give their characteristic sound when placed in a particular channel and playback is clicked.
However - there is one orchestra instrument offered in the standard Logic Pro 8 Mixer channel menu and it's the item labelled "Performance - 000 flute 1 or 001 flute 1." And it is this instrument that presents a problem. When I click on it and choose it from the menu and enter it as the instrument of choice for a specfic channel / track in my Logic Pro project arrangement, when playing back the music for the overall piece this particular track, the flute, does not playback and produce the notes (Midi events) in the track in the sound of the flute. Instead, nothing comes out at all. I can't imagine why this does not work. Any ideas, anyone? Again, when choosing this instrument for a track and clicking the playback no flute sound is forthcoming. Why not? I have not tried them all, but when most of the other various types of keyboards, such as an electric piano or an organ, are chosen for a track the playback successfully renders the sound of these instruments. Why then does playback not produce the sound of the flute when it has clearly been chosen to play and sound the Midi events given it?
Anyway, the overall, larger issue for me is the inability I have to choose and get non-Garageband instruments (largely orchestral) to play the Midi events given on various tracks. If my guess is correct then technically, orchestral instruments not offered in the standard Logic Pro 8 Garageband Mixer channel menu are referred to as external Midi sampled instruments - still, IMHO the process is not clearly spelled out in the User Manual. The simple step by step process whereby a non-Garage band instrument, say an orchestral instrument, is placed in a channel replete with Midi event (notes) waiting to be played should be easy, logical and given in a simple to follow format, but is not.
What with all the talk of routes, busses, auxillary channels, GM devices, GM mixers, audio bins, libraries and audio files this Logic Pro User is confused to the max. Can someone please help me and, in simple English, describe the step by step process whereby presumably external sampled orchestral instruments can be successfully employed, in any given Logic Pro arrangement project, to render their characteristic sounds upon playback?
On my two Macs, one a laptop and one a much larger Mac, I have any number of the GSO (Garritan Symphony Orceshtra) and Vienna Symphony Orchestra instrument library samples - and yet - I've yet to figure out how to actually get them INTO a Logic Pro project of any kind! To put this as a question, even as a humble request, how can I make good use of these orchestral sample libraries in a Logic Pro project? Can someone steer my to a clear resolution of this issue. I'd sincerely appreciate it! Thanks all!
DavidBacon

DavidBacon wrote:
Anyway, the overall, larger issue for me is the inability I have to choose and get non-Garageband instruments (largely orchestral) to play the Midi events given on various tracks. If my guess is correct then technically, orchestral instruments not offered in the standard Logic Pro 8 Garageband Mixer channel menu are referred to as external Midi sampled instruments - still, IMHO the process is not clearly spelled out in the User Manual. The simple step by step process whereby a non-Garage band instrument, say an orchestral instrument, is placed in a channel replete with Midi event (notes) waiting to be played should be easy, logical and given in a simple to follow format, but is not.
What with all the talk of routes, busses, auxillary channels, GM devices, GM mixers, audio bins, libraries and audio files this Logic Pro User is confused to the max.
David, you understand that this is professional software and is not necessarily meant to be easy but is in fact designed to give the professional user as many choices as possible, that's why it's in the Pro Apps section. You WILL need to learn about buses, GM Devices, Audio Bins, Libraries...etc..etc if you intend to use Logic.
That said, you are looking in the wrong place in the channel strip.
May I offer you advice?
Go here:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/
Open "Exploring Logic Pro" (a short PDF Document). Pay special attention to chapter 3. Also pay special attention to the included graphics of the channel strips.
I encourage you to read the whole document as it will clear up many things... even though it's a Logic 9 document.
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I'm Just wondering how to make drum beats in garage band using the sounds it comes with? Also how can i use garage band like a drum machine which i can program an entire song part by part????

I'm new to using Garageband and loops with garage band. I just wanted to see if there was a way for me to use the drum sounds provided in garageband to create my own original drum tracks and work with it like a drum machine that i can program an entire song into... any info or tutorials would be a great help.. Thanks!!!

Ah ok, I have a better idea of what you want to do now.
Unfortunately there isn't anything inside GB that can come anywhere close to Acoustica Beatcraft, but there are two tools inside Garageband that can help you do something similar.
First are the built-in keyboards, which will enable you to trigger drum samples with your computer keyboard or mouse. Go to Window -> Keyboard or Window -> Musical Typing. Click with your mouse on the Keyboard or press keys on your computer keyboard with Musical Typing, and you will trigger different drum samples for whatever kit you've chosen for that software track.
Next is the Track Editor: in Piano Roll mode, you can create and see midi notes somewhat similar to the view in this screenshot from AB. On the left side of the Editor, you will see a sideways piano keyboard. When you assign a drum kit to a software track, each of the piano keys corresponds to a different instrument: hi hat, snare, bass drum, etc---you'll have to play them using the on-screen keyboard or musical typing to see what they correspond to. In order to add a MIDI note you hold the CMD button and click with the mouse.
So, if you wanted to add a closed hi-hat hit, you would CMD-click on the Track Editor row corresponding to the closed hi-hat piano key, and then you can drag the MIDI note left & right to change the beat it plays on, or resize the note, which will change its duration.
Or, as you've already observed, you can use Musical Typing to play out a pattern on your computer keyboard while recording, and you will see the midi notes appear in real time in the Track Editor.
Hope this helps, feel free to ask more questions.

How to use Session I/0 interface of RIG 3 in garage band

hi I have te ssesioni/0 interface and I want to use it in garage band, but when I
look in system preferences at the input output section and when I select "sessioni/0 it tells me that the interface doesn´t have input controlers !
And when i try to use it in garage band it doesn't work
please help!

when I have to choose input and output, I choose the sessionI/O option, I´m using a real instrument, an electric guitar gibson sg standard.
I´m not sure about your other two questions, where can I check them to know
if i select the correct option?
but as I said first, I think that the problem is that in system preferences at the input output section it tells me that the interface (Session I/O) doesn´t have input controlers.

How do I make the internal mic on my macbook air sustain better when recording on garage band? I have been recording an acoustic guitar and listening back, the mic seems to pick it up well naturally for 1 or 2 seconds then dramatically drop out.

How do I make the internal mic on my macbook air sustain better when recording on garage band? I have been recording an acoustic guitar and listening back, the mic seems to pick it up well naturally for 1 or 2 seconds then dramatically drop out.

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How do I get a voice over from garage band into Final cut x?

How do I get a voice over from garage band into Final cut x? Sorry if this is a newbie question. I have been editing in final Cut express on my MacBook Pro and just jumped to a new iMac and Final Cut ProX. Trying to record my own voice on a Yeti mic and import it as narration for a video. Thought I could simply import media but X has it greyed out.

Sharing with iTunes is OK, but it is likely to produce a file in MP3 or AAC, which can cause problems. You can create an AIFF version of an MP3 file in iTunes and use that.
To create an AIFF version, go to iTunes/Preferences and click the General Tab. Click the Import Settings button. Choose Import Using: AIFF Encoder. Then choose your track, and click FILE/CREATE AIFF Version. Use this in FCPX. Be sure to go back into iTunes Preferences and set the import options back to where you had it, so the next time you rip an CD it does not make an AIFF.

Opening Garage Band files in Logic Express

I'm a school music teacher and have just started using Logic Express 7 to open kids' Garage Band files for tidying up and polishing.(Still a beginner with logic I'm afraid!) Have just purchased Logic Express 8 update, but haven't installed it because I heard that it won't open Garage Band 3 files. Is this true? If so, is it possible to have both 7 and 8 running independently on the computer? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The original release of LE8 had a bug which required a workaround to open GB files. The subsequent 8.0.1 update fixed that. After you install LE8, go to Software Update and install the 8.0.1 update and you will be fine.

CPU 40 % but Garage Band doesn't work

Hello,
I've a problem with GarageBand 11. A few days ago I've bought a Mac Mini with dual core I7 with 8Gigs RAM, and hard disk 750Gigs (7200RPM). Lion inside of course.
I'v used Garage Band but during play my project, GB stops itself and appear a message similar at "part of the project was not played". But I've checked activity monitor and the CPU (appear 4 core, for hyperthreading) is under 40% global resources, during Gb playing my project.
The tracks are 8 with many effects, the cursor became red and Garage band says: "part of the project was not played" and stops itself. I ask you, why even though the CPU is 40%, the hard disk works fine, the RAM is used for 3, 5Gbyte Garage Band desn't work?
Thank you for your patience.

While we all have MacBooks in this forum not all of us use GarageBand. There's a GarageBand Support Community where everybody uses GarageBand. You should also post this question there to increase your chances of getting an answer.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/garageband

How to import a music file into garage band ?

Hello everyone,
I am new to Garage Band, pardon me if my question is too basic.
I am trying to record a vocal. But friend has sent me a music recording (mixture of guitar & piano, without vocal) in mp3 format.
I want to put this mp3 file in another track below the track that I am recording the vocal.
How do I import in this mp3 file into Garage band ?
Thanks

HangTime wrote:
RyanManUtd wrote:
I want to put this mp3 file in another track below the track that I am recording the vocal.
drop the file into a blank area of the timeline
Thanks HangTime, a bit embarrassed here. How do I drop the file ?
U mean I open another window using FInder, select the file in Finder & then drop on the timeline ?
Thanks, really appreciate your help.
Cheers

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