Garage band drums respond slowly during recording

While I'm using musical typing in garage band the drums will respond fine, but as soon as I hit record, the drum response time will stick, so I'm quite often dropping beats. This never happens when record isn't engaged.
Has anyone else experienced this issue?

I'm very new to GB and am just recording voice messages to email to friends with my imac's built in mic. I am plagued with the popping in the recordings. It's not related to my voice, is just a consistent pop through the recording. The metronome is turned off. I'm using ilife 08. Any thoughts?

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I am using a H2 as a digital interface in my macbook, and after 10 minutes of recording multiple live tracks, I start to get a static like distortion, shown in the recording level indicator, and in the playback, of the track that I am working on. I have been able to record, with no distortion or problems, with the H2 by itself, but encounter the problem when connected to the Macbook. I suspect it is Garage Band, but has anyone else had a similar problem?
I am also getting a one third of a second delay with the metronome in playback, when recording another track on top of the original.
I took a Garage Band course last summer, and had no metronome problems, and had the distortion problem, 1 time out of 20, using the H2. Does this sound like a hardware or software problem? Thank you for any help

It does seem to be a problem with all Garagebands. I get this distortion, like white noise randomly (usually in the first 2 minutes) and I get this echo (not from monitors) after about 10 seconds of recording. I've tried my H2 on GB 3, 4, 5 on several different computers and they all have this problem. I've tried several updates to the H2, no change. I've tried several different USB cables, no change. I've tried with or without powered USB hub, no change. It still might be a power problem, not enough power from the USB ports.... BUT. I've tried the H2 on the one of the same computers and Logic Express and had no problem. I need to do some further tests but it seems the problem is in Garageband. I'm gonna try Audacity.... also some extended sessions in Logic Express. I do have one more computer I can try all this on as well.

I want to use my ipad2 to connect to garage band on my mac and record from my ipad directly to garage band

I like the guitar sound on my ipad and want to incorporate it into a project that I have on my Mac in garageband. Is there any way to hook my ipad up to my mac and use it like I would the keyboard I use to record into garage band?

To do it, you have to partition the hard disk, so you will have one partition for Time Machine and another one to store files and use them in a PC and Mac. To create the partition, follow these steps > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU3.html
In order to read and write in the external disk on the PC, you have to select "MS-DOS (FAT)" as "Format". If you choose any other option, the PC won't be able to read your external disk. Apart from that, note that you can't use files bigger than 4 GB with FAT. If you want to use the external disk with files bigger than 4 GB, you have to format your new partition in exFAT, and you have to do it on a PC

Mac-Ignorant. Can I use Garage Band with PC and Olympia recorder?

I have a 90 minute session I'm trying to podcast. The first thing I did was publish it on mypodcast.com. Naively I thought I could just post that URL in the podcast feed URL. I don't have a MAC. I have a PC. Is there a way (or perhaps a bunch of steps) that I can get my recorded file using Garage Band via my PC? If so then I will download it.... and then if I can use that, where can I post my recording so that I can feed it to itunes? I know a LOT of questions. I did not RECORD using an IPOD.. I recorded using an Olympia Digital Recorder. Please tell me there's a way!!!

GarageBand is Mac-Only, and also commercial
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#dlgarageb
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http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#garageban
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Whoa. Thanks! Is there any other way to get that recording podcasted? Does this require a different forum? Probably!

Hey guys can garage band work w/ a recording interface

hey i just wondering if garage band will work w/ a recording interface
w/ out have to buy a differ software

By recording interface you mean a digital audio interface that does A/D D/A conversion then yes the Mac will work with just about every usb/firewire interface made.

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After a particularly gruesome computer crash, I am trying to reconstruct my lost files using Data Rescue II..... This program goes into the damaged hard drive and downloads all intact files it can find, but it is NOT able to label everything correctly. All it can do is divide things into folders - Audio files, document files, images, mail, misc., and movies. And within these folders are other folders - for instance, in the "Audio" rescued folder, there are hundreds of AIFF files, AIFF1 files, AIFF2, MP3, WAV, m4a, and m4p files.
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(Don't get me wrong... I'm grateful to have stuff to dig through! I just hope my Garage Band files are intact and recoverable.)
Has anyone had success saving Garage Band files with Data Rescue II?
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Aaaagh!
I spoke too soon. Yes,I did indeed find the file that contained all the files I needed to retrieve (using Disk Rescue II). When my 6-hour download of the 78 GB folder finished, I check the files again, and they weren't located in the orphaned section, but in the Hard Drive section under the normal directory, in a folder called .Trashes - within that there was another folder called "501", which contained all the Garageband files I needed to retrieve. However, when I tried to open the downloaded "rescued" files, they were inside a folder called "Macintosh HD", which could not be opened, and I got a message that said "Could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges." Not only that, but even after 6 hours of (apparently) downloading the 78 GB folder, my hard drive, which had close to 83 GB of free space, said STILL had almost that same amount.
So did it download anything or not? What was it doing all those 6 hours? I have a file that I can't open, but apparently it's going to be empty anyway.
Here's the full story, for anyone with the patience to listen and offer advice. It looks like now I'm looking for a way to 1) get the permissions to open the .trashes file so that I can download everything, or 2) figure out a way to get Disk Rescue II to open the files and download them regardless of the permissions.
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The day the computer crashed, I was working on a Garage Band project, which kept crashing, and I was also using Finale, Microsoft Word, and iTunes -- all of which are my normal procedure and I'd never had any problems with anything before loading the new Garage Band 08. (See my posts on other discussion topics for more details). After the last freeze, the computer crashed totally and could not be restarted - it would get to the gray screen with the spinning gear and just sit there while the fans ramped up to overload.
I used Disk Warrior to rescue whatever files I could onto an external hard drive, and I started to download all the Garage Band files. However, the "estimated time to completion" said over 6 hours , so I stopped the download after a minute or so and went on to rescue all the other files that were smaller in size and easier to download - I figured I'd set Disk Warrior to download the whole 78 GB set of Garage Band files overnight while I slept. But....when I went back to begin the download again, I noticed that the directory of Garage Band files went only to the letter "C" instead of all the way to "Z" like my original files had done during that earlier attempt to download. I am assuming that somehow, the directory for the files I download before aborting the attempt (A-C) got exchanged with the directories of the original version (A-Z), but the original directory was no where to be found.
I decided to try an archive install in the hopes that I could just restart my computer and get the files out by hand. The archive install went fine, and the computer started up fine and got to the log-in screen, which had changed. I now had two blanks - one for user name and one for password, instead of the choices of names. I tried all my user names and passwords, and asked my wife for her names and passcodes, but nothing worked. The computer had apparently re-set all its permissions and User accounts. I tried using Disk Utility to reset the password in its opening screens, but instead of getting several User options, the only one it allowed me to attempt was "System Administrator (root)", and even that wouldn't let me in to change any passwords.
That's when I downloaded Data Rescue II, which does seem to do a good job of locating lost files. However, since I didn't have permissions to open the computer the last time, I am still apparently facing the same thing when I try to access files copies OFF the computer.
So I'm not out of the woods yet. I can see the files on the Data Rescue screen, but I don't know whether they have permissions tied to them or not, and if they do, whether the system would let me since I don't know what the passwords and user names have defaulted back to.
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Hello, I don't have a Mac yet, but am going to get the mini soon and do some acoustic/keyboard stuff in Garage Band to get back into recording. What is the sample and bit rate for the new version? I had read that older versions were 16?
Thanks.
Joe

joewherefast wrote:
Hello, I don't have a Mac yet, but am going to get the mini soon and do some acoustic/keyboard stuff in Garage Band to get back into recording. What is the sample and bit rate for the new version? I had read that older versions were 16?
Thanks.
Joe
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I did that, the machine has two out puts. i plugged in the two cords, put on an adapter and plugged it into the line in, where i would record with a mic. which worked fine, and this doesnt. It also has a line in jack, but i dont know if that would work at all.

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.
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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.
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