Garage Band - Tune a Guitar

How do you tune a electric guitar using Garage Band 09?......I knew how but forgot so can someone plz help me out

Go to the LCD window and select the pitch fork icon!

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Garage band vs cakewalk guitar tracks pro ?

I am a guitarist/bassist and wondering how these two applications stack up, is garage band all I will need or will the extra money for guitar tracks be worth it ?

As SD said, there are some very good sounds in GB. I've not used AMPLITUDE or anything like that but GB is good enough for a lot of what I want to do.
Open up GB on the Macbook
Go Track/New
Select REAL INSTRUMENT
Press the blue "i" on the right hand side of the grey "transport" bar, this brings up a new panel on the right hand side of the screen.
Select GUITARS from the displayed menu - that gives you a list of the presets (don't select one just yet)
Then double click DETAILS in the right hand panel to bring up the EFFECTS panel
Click in a box that says NONE and it gives you a list of effects.
Try clicking AMP SIMULATION then moving right and clicking into MANUAL
Choose an AMP then click the PENCIL on the right hand side and that gives you a new panel to change settings
You can then also click into the next NONE box and choose an effect and go though the MANUAL/Pencil process to change effect settings etc...
When you've got a sound you like then save it (bottom right hand corner) as a new sound
Now, just out of interest, go back and select a guitar preset and you'll see the EFFECTS boxes populated with the presets created by Apple. You can also change those and save as a new name.
HTH
Cheers
Dick

Garage band records raw guitar and vocals through mic - sounds tin tinny...

i haven't changed any of my settings... i am not using any effects and using internal mic
i know its not going to be the highest quility but it still sounds really funky
any suggestions

There are 3 tips that could help you get the best sound out to your tracks... 1. and USB audio/midi Interface 2. A GOOG audio cable (Monster is Great) 3. The third one is not a tip but rather what can contribute to that sound tin, check your guitar knobs and also make sure your bridge is not too low.
Also check your Mac's system preferences under audio settings etc.

Can the new pre installed apps in iPad 2. Like garage band, iMovie be sync back to i tune, and then sync these new apps from ipad2 to the old iPad 1?

Can the new pre installed apps in iPad 2. Like garage band, iMovie be sync back to i tune, and then sync these new apps from ipad2 to the old iPad 1?

GB and iMovie pre installed?
http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/
Click: Browser All Built In Apps
iMovie and GB must be purchased.
If you have installed GB and iMovie on the iPad 1 and synced using iTunes, just sync the those apps to the newer iPad with iTunes. No re purchase necessary with the same iTunes account.

How do I use Garage Band to practice my guitar against lesson CDs and backing track CDs

How do I use Garage Band to practice my guitar against lesson CDs and backing track CDs

GarageBand on your Mac or on an iPad?
If you are asking abot GB on a Mac you do the following:
Create a new GarageBand project with a Guitar track
Insert the CD and drag the audio file of the Lesson track or backing track to an empty region below the tracks in the timeline of the GarageBand window.
Plug in a set of head phones and put them on to listen to your backing track.
Plug in your guitar and select the guitar track.
Click on the measure where you want to start your recording and select the guitar track.
Press "record" and start to play.
Regards
Léonie

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.

I realised that you just need to go to System Preferences > Sound > Input > and uncheck 'Use ambient noise reduction'. mmm answered my own question.

Recording a class of 30 kids singing to a guitar track I laid down on Garage Band. Severe distortion because they have to hear the guitar track through a set of speakers..

I had a big setback today on a project I've been working on. I recently made my first recording of my own playing and singing, a guitar track and a vocal track of a children's song. When I recorded the guitar track, it took me a whole day to get it right. I used the metronome through earbuds. Then I listened to the guitar track and sang into a Snowball mike to get the vocal track down. Played separately or together, they came out crisp, clear, no dostortion. I made a CD of the song by sending the song to iTuines, with and without my voice so the children could practice to it. I taught the song to 30 fifth graders so I could add a vocal track of them singing. My plan is to use it as the music for a slideshow I'm making for their elementary graduation. I'm a mom, not their teacher. The teachers of the two classrooms have been generous in letting me teach the kids the song, and setting up 45 minutes for me to record it. Did the recording of the kids today at the school. Two tracks of all 30 kids doing their very best to cooperate. They sang well. I opened the garage Band file at home and it is such poor quality audio that it is UNUSABLE. There's a lot of fuzz and distortion. I can probably get their teachers to let me have them again to give it another try, but I better get it right. When I recorded my own voice to the guitar track, I monitored using earbuds. I can't hook 30 kids up to my Macbook with earbuds. I played the guitar track from speakers and held the microphone out toward them, so the mike was between the speakers and the kids. The speakers and mike both faced the kids. They sang really well, so it was pretty disappointing to find the recording sounded so bad. My guitar teacher tried to help me figure out what to do, but he thinks it is going to be very tricky to get it right since the kids have to hear the guitar track to sing it. I'm considering playing the CD I made of the guitar track from a boom box behind the kids and just recording the kids on a separate project file and losing the ability to edit, and probably losing most of the guitar quality and volume. But I won't know if it works until I have 30 kids and 2 teachers and all my gear set up to actually try it. Whatever I do, it has to work on my next try. There's very little time left and no budget. I thought my Macbook Pro and the Snowball, purchased at the Apple Store, would be enough.
Please advise. Thanks.

Very difficult recording situation. I would probably just record the kids with you playing live guitar.
You could do the boombox with the kids and set it up so the kids hear the guitar but try to get as little as possible of the prerecord guitar on the the track. Then either mix the kids recording with the original guitar track or add a guitar track to the kids track later.
When you do the recording of the kids bring headphones to monitor levels. Also make sure you're happy with the track before you leave the school.

Is there some sort of adapter that i can use to plug my electric guitar into, so that i can record music into garage band?

Is there some sort of adapter that i can use to plug my electric guitar into, so that i can record music into garage band?

Probably but for that kind of expertise I would ask the experts in the GarageBand forum.

Importing vinvl albums via garage band have to import tunes individually .tunes willnot recombine into one album. I understand that it is because data available on cd's is not present on vinyl..any clues on how to fix this?

mac version 10.9.4.
importing vinyl albums via garage band. Have to import tunes individually as tunes will not retain individusl otherwise. trouble is they will not rejoin as one album in iTunes.I understand it is because data available on cd's is not on vinyl imports . Any clues on how to fix this?

"Have to import tunes individually as tunes will not retain individusl otherwise." -- I don't understand this sentence.
iTunes will not assign track names to items imported from vinyl. You will have to label the files yourself in the Get Info window. As long as you give all the tracks on an album the same album information and the same artist information they should group together. if the artists differ then you need to give all the tracks one common album artist (often "Various Artists")in addition to individual track artist.

Hi, I've lost all sound; keys F 3 4 and 5 only come up with a circle and diagonal bar across it. no sound in i-tunes and none in garage band or YouTube viewings

please help. all sound gone from my system. keys 3 4 and 5 only respond with line of bars and 'not permitted' circle with diagonal bar across. I've tried i-tunes garage band and YouTube. When I click on the loudspeaker icon at the top, I cant alter the slider below...

Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
Also, open Audio Midi Setup in Applications>Utilities, see the input & output options & KHz setting there, some things will change it for their own use, then not set it back.

Does Guitar Rig 3 work in Garage Band v1?

Under mac osx 10.4 (G5 with dual 2.5 cpus), I can select Guitar Rig as an AU but then Garage Band crashes.
One time it crashed, I chose 'Try Again' and when I selected the Guitar Rig, the GR interface came up without the amp profiles (which I manually imported); it still bugged out and did not produce any sound or work at all.
Should I upgrade my os to 10.4.11 and get the new iLife '08 for the latest Garage Band. I really love the Guitar Rig. I had the Mesa Recording pre-amp and the sim sounds 'exactly' like it.
TIA

In what way?

Using auto tune in garage band

i just downloaded the Auto-Tune 5 AU demo but i do not know how i use it in garage band 1 now, if anyone could explain it to me i would greatly appreciate it!
thanks, jball

can i further correct the audio notes somehow to be exactly on tune?
within its limits. too far off pitch and it will be corrected the wrong way.
manipulate it with my controller keyboard?
that would be something completely different, you'd want to create a SoundFont:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#makesoundfonts
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

My father-in-law's photo library has thousand of "stock photos"(such as the guitar from garage band) surrounding his actual photos. What is the easiest way for me to clean this up for him? Karen

My father-in-law's photo library has thousand of "stock photos"(such as the guitar from garage band) surrounding his actual photos. What is the easiest way for me to clean this up for him? Karen

Can you tell me how to do that and how to do it without erasing his actual photos which are intermingled?
ThanK You.
Karen
PS We are only in town for a few more hours & I'd love to get this done for him. He's in PA & I'll never be able to walk him through this by phone:)

Considering a Macbook pro 13". want to use garage band - how do i run line in from my guitar. There is not a mic/line input that I can see in specs.

Considering buying a Macbook pro 13". Want to use garage band - how do i run line in from my guitar. There is not a mic/line input that I can see in specs.

Simple. GarageBand question, GarageBand forum where all those users are jacked into their Macs and can tell you how. Also look to the right of your post to the column, "More Like This."---------------------------------------------->
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/garageband

Guitar recording in Garage Band, 2012 MacBook Pro 13"

I hope someone can point me in the right direction here...
I bought a brand new 2012, 13", MacBook Pro a few days ago for a number of reasons, but the main being music recording. After purchasing I realized there is no LINE-IN on the new MacBook?! I browsed a few forums to find that others are having the same issue I am.
I decided to buy a chord called a Lightsnake, that is a 1/4" guitar jack on one end, and USB on the other. However, there is a slight delay between when I pluck a string, to the audio coming through my headphones. It makes the chord unusable because I can never layer tracks perfectly.
Does anyone know of another solution that isn't going to run me a few hundred dollars that will allow me to record my guitar into Garage Band? I'm still within the 30-day return policy, and if I cannot find a reasonable solution I'm going to have to upgrade to the 15" MacBook Pro, which comes with the line-in?! (Which is a whole separate annoyance for another forum post)
Please Help!! This is my first MacBook after being a Windows user forever, and I'm already questioning my decision.
Thanks in advance for any help.

First of all, let me welcome you to the Apple world, where the grass is always greener on this side. Don't question your decision, you made the right choice.
Regarding your question:
Solution 1: external
You can use an external audio interface via the USB bus. There are plenty to choose from in any price range. The more expensive ones provide a lower "latency" and I think that is the problem with your cheaper Lightsnake device. It has a built-in analog-digital converter in it and that must be not that good of a quality which introduces such a high latency (the time needed to do the digital conversion) that you can hear it.
Solution 2:
It seems that many users are not aware that the newer MacBooks have a "double duty" audio port. Unfortunately, it is labeled with a headphone icon which points to an "audio out". However, this port can be used as ad audio out (Sound Output) or audio in (Sound Input). You set that in the System Preferences > Sound window
With a 1/4" to 1/8" cable, you could connect your electric guitar directly into your Mac. Check the input level meter in the System Preferences if your guitar signal (or other audio signal) is high enough. Although the quality might not be the best (compared to a good external Audio Interface), I would bet that the analog-digital converter (ADC) are better that your Lightsnake cable, resulting in a much lower latency
Hope that helps
Edgar Rothermich
http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/
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