Garage band real instruments

When I plug in my studio link to record my bass and guitar on garage band it does not pick them up at all.
I have done everything suggested on the garage band help.
Any idea what to do?

they're all just Cables with different types of connectors.
every one I've seen is, yeah, and it really ticks me off that they continue to advertise them as if they'll just magically work. it is simply not true for most people.
I agree. For most people, it's really false or at least misleading advertisement.
Unfortunately, we have seen several cases of similar behavior on the part of manufacturers and retailers.
WH

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HT1338 i downloaded new updates to my garage band and when I restarted a warning popped up when i opened my mailbox that the version I have no longer is being supported. Then, for some reason, the app is gone and don't know how to get my email back on my

i donwloaded new updates for my garage band with instruments (which was about 1.2gb) . When I started my email a message popped up that my email is not supported with the version of the email - I was confused and went into applications and tried using the "mail.app" and then I lost my "Mail" app on my dock and now there's no way for me to get my emails or find the app to load back on my dock. Could someone please help me??

If your Mail app is no longer inside your Applications folder, use Spotlight to locate the application. Once you find it, place the application back inside the Applications folder. Then drag the original Mail app to the dock & let go. The Mail app should now appear in the Dock.
When I started my email a message popped up that my email is not supported with the version of the email
Try the suggestions mentioned in this article link - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4424

Where do I find the fifties Sci-Fi keyboard in Garage Band?

I've seen the fifties Sci-Fi keyboard in the Garage Band demo during the keynote and it has been mentioned in many reviews, but I can't seem to find it in the keyboards on my iPad. Is it an extra add-in? Basically, where do I find the fifties Sci-Fi keyboard in Garage Band?

Instruments > Keyboard > (Tap the current instument) > Leads > Fifties Sci Fi (First page, first row, second from left)
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Cant hear real instruments on playback in Garage band

Can anyone tell me why I can't hear the real instruments in my song in garage band version 5.1 on macbook. I could hear everything while recording the tracks and the last time I listened to the song but now all I can hear are the software instruments. I can see the WAV data and the VU meters are moving on every track. I opened up a different song and I could here the real instrument on it. All settings etc are the same , nothing is solo'd, ? ! Any ideas please ? !

In the new GarageBand the quantize is per region.
For a real instrument region open the Track editor.
Select the "track" tab and click "Enable Flex"
Select the "Region" tab and you will see the "quantize" control.

Need help with Garage Band 11 and my TASCAM interface recording Real Instrument

I am using a TASCAM US-122 interface with garage band 11 on a mac at 32 bit running osx 10.6.6. Garage Band preferences / audio input and output set to TASCAM (which means it recognizes it) , but when using Real Instrument for the TASCAM and the track is armed , etc... the record function works when started except "no sound" from the device I am running thru TASCAM is being detected.
I am getting sound out of the TASCAM and simply running an AKAI mpc beat as a test. I am sure there is something simple I have yet to do but not sure what it is in Garage Band.
Can you help ? Thanks. GARY

with the real instrument track selected...
make sure the info pane is showing on the right (click the little "i" on the bottom right to open it; "Real Instrument" should be highlighted in blue on top).
On the bottom of the info pane it says "Input Source" and "Monitor."
Make sure the Input Source is set to the Tascam channel you're using (the channel, mono or stereo, that you've plugged your MPC into).
And if you want to hear it as you record, make sure the Monitor is set to ON.

I am trying to connect my ipad version of garage band to my mac book pro so as to record directly from the ipad as a midi instrument but with no success. Can you help?

I am trying to connect my ipad to my mac book pro. I want to use the ipad as a software instrument (playing from garage band) and to record in garage band on the mac book. I have plugged the ipad in, turned on the ipad and opened up garage band but the mac book pro has not picked it up. Why? Any suggestions.

Maybe it should, I'm all PC here so I can't actually test it myself. As far as I can recall all the stuff I've read has GarageBand for iOS acting as the recording instrument in the MIDI relationship rather than an input device for something else.
Could be worth posting to GarageBand for iOS Feedback and suggesting it as a feature.
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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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How do I create an instrument on Garage Band 08?

I have some sound/synth patches that I want to play and use with my midi controller as a software instrument track . It wont let me drag them in so I guess I have to make it into an instrument. Ive searched to try and find out how to do this, but to no success.
It says on one search I can do it through Radio Sounds on the podcast section, but looks like its only on Garage band 03.
Some help would be greatly appreciated.

pocasaneo wrote:
I have to make it into an instrument.
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/Tutorials.html#buildaninstrument

I've imported a Garage Band project but the instruments seem to be in a different key to the vocal. Any ideas why?

I did a project in Garage Band but want to finish and mix it in Logic Pro. The vocals are in the right key but the instruments (guitars and bass) are in another key. I did the project originally in C, then changed it to D in Garage Band and recorded the vocal track after that. Any ideas why the instruments seem to stil be in the original key and how to fix this?

Check/use the transpose section of the track/region inspector..... or Global transpostion... to set to correct/update the transposition value you want.
http://help.apple.com/logicpro/mac/10/#lgcp912ee811
http://help.apple.com/logicpro/mac/10/#lgcpf7c0d270

How do I access all the Arturia 49 key analog library to Garage Band? I see the analog library but not all the SW instruments?

how do I access all the Arturia 49 key analog library to Garage Band? I see the analog library but not all the SW instruments?

Alex,
have you tried everything in this thread? The problem seems to be different for everybody:
If nothing helps try dagon's full monty for a reinstall:
Re: GarageBand '11 won't download additional loops
Or a manual download using the Terminal as mteep suggests:
Re: GarageBand '11 won't download additional loops
Léonie

On garage band how do you get on to the instruments

on garage band how do you get on to the instruments?

It's probably more effective to post in the Garage Band forums here:
GarageBand

Can i isolate one instrument from an mp3 on garage band?

can i isolate one instrument from an mp3 on garage band? i want to be able to analyse the drumming from a few songs and wondered if it was possible on my imac

No, GarageBand cannot unmix an mp3. You need a program that can transcribe an audio file, like Melodyne. I think Logic can do that too, but I never tried Logic myself.
Unfortunately, these programs are rather more expensive than GarageBand.
Regards
Léonie

How do i use Garage Band Instruments in Mainstage (2.1.3)

hi,
everywhere in the manuals it says that i can use Garage Band instruments in Mainstage.
But in my Patch Library i can only see:
01 Pre-Mapped
02 Software Instruments
03 Electric Guitar
04 Vocal
Audio Channel Strips
Instrument Channel Strips
In Logic it also shows "Garage Band Instruments", but i can't find that within Maintage..
Any Idea???
Thanks,
Daniel

Hi guys,
as an added task to the current importing of Garageband Instruments into MainStage; is it possible to import the Sound Effects sound that has been assigned samples from Garageband.
I'll explain what I would like to do.. I would like to use, in MainStage, the Sampled clips I made in Garageband that have been saved as an Instrument under Sound Effects.
Hope it makes sense.
At the moment I can import it and get it on the right instrument but its just making a basic noise.
Cheers if you can help.

HELP!! Real instruments sound reverby and warped upon playback

Hey , i'm running garage band 08 with all the latest updates 4.1.2 and i am trying to record an acoustic guitar as a real instrument track. After i record however, it sounds almost like there is some kind of subtle reverb or echo and the instrument just doesnt sound right. My audio Midi settings are as follows
44100.0Hz
2ch-24bit
Using internal mic
On a different macbook pro using all the same settings on both machines i recorded the same guitar and it sounds perfect. I am also not using any reverb or echo or any effects and it still sounds wrong. Is there a problem with my internal mic or am i just doing something wrong with GB setting.
Any help or suggestions would be hugely appreciated
many thanks

Yeah, check the individual track settings for effects. When you record, you want to record an un-effected signal. You can then manipulate that signal with processed effects of your choice. I usually save the original recordings of each song as the "name of the song 0", and when I experiment w/effects i'll save the subsequent ones as 1,2,3,..etc. You can always go back and combine/re-edit to get what you had in mind. Also, make sure you don't have a big empty room you're recording in. Acoustics in a big room give you natural reverb. Play around with the track, and then the master volumes, as well, when in different rooms of the house.

All Real Instruments coming through in Mono

I am using a lexicon Omega interface into garage band. The input settings say stereo but every real instrument I record comes through in mono. The only time I can get stereo is when I use one of the garage band instrument settings which is fine for guitars and keyboards. Any suggestions?

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

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