Multiple External real instruments and midi connections.

I want to connect multiple external devices to grageband. Mic ( i have a two channel audio interface so works on its own) guitar through a effects pedal (has usb and is seen as audio so works on it own) and a electronic drum set, has usb midi out. Preferences only seems to allow one audio device so how do i get all thta in so i can record on different tracks 9for later editing)?

martincw wrote:
how do i get all thta in so i can record on different tracks
create an aggregate device:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/Tutorials.html#allaboutaggregatedevices
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I record multiple tracks (3-5) from real instruments and vocals. I want to send these files to a collaborator to add more tracks to, but Garageband wants to mix these down (which I don't want). How can I send the multiple tracks files to my friend?

I record multiple tracks of real instruments and vocals wth Garage Band. I want to share the file with a collaborator so he can add another instrument or two. I have not found a way to do this without the process mixing down the tracks. I don't want them mixed down like when I send them to Itunes. Also I can't seem to just attach a file directly to an email for sending purposes. I thought I saw a method to do this with software instruments, but how do you do it with real instruments? I've tried every process on the "export" list to try to accomplish this, without success. Thanks for any breakthrough advice on this!

As isteveus said - for large projects uploading to a server would be best.
Also I can't seem to just attach a file directly to an email for sending purposes.
But for completeness's sake , you cou can mail a project, if you ctrl-click the project and use "Compress xxx.band". This will compress the project and create a zip file, that you can mail (if it is not too large). But ask your friend for the maximal file size allowed as a mail attachment.
But whichever method you use to share your project, be sure you include all loops and instruments, if your friend does not have the same JamPacks installed. You can bundle the loops into the project by saving it as an archive. "File > Save as" and check the "Archive Project" option.
If this option should be disabled, you can force it to become active by editing your project slightly. It is only available, if the project needs saving.
Regards
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Why can't GB let me use 'electric guitar' option when using Nio 2/4 interface - I have to use real instrument and miss out on all the effects. Is this normal for all interfaces?

Why can't GB let me use 'electric guitar' option when using Nio 2/4 interface - I have to use real instrument and miss out on all the effects. Is this normal for all interfaces? The Nio reads hte guitar but GB doesn't....

Usually effects packages are AU plugins that would have no effect on track selection. Interfaces should have no control over what kind of track you can select. I really think something else is going on her maybe something you overlooked.
Did you choose the input channel in the track info pane. Try both channel 1 mono or channel 2 mono. Make sure the track is record enabled.

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This is when i open garage band
This happen when i start to used. The Real Istruments and Master Track icons desappeared. What is this happening and how can I fix it?

THis can either mean, that the GarageBand application needs reinstalling or that you have corrupted settings and preferences files in your user account. To find out if something in your user account needs fixing, try to launch GarageBand from a different user account. You could try to log off and sign into the Guest account or create a second account for testing using the System Preferences "Users&Groups" pane.
If GarageBand works well using a different account, try HangTime's "oddball probs" fix and trash the GarageBand preferences file - move com.apple.garageband.plist from the Preferences folder in your user library to the Desktop. See the FAQ:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#oddballprobs
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But if it even does not work from a different account, trash GarageBand and reinstall it.
Regards
Léonie

Ipad–external hard drives and USB connected devices

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are there any programs which allow working in layers on images?

This is a question I would also ask. I have a Canon pro camera with 8Gb Compact Flash and I would like to be able to connect my camera via USB2 through an iPad to a portable HDD as a solution for downloading in the field. Why on earth did Apple not include USB functionality in this device. Even cheapo $300 netbooks all have multiple USB ports. Sure the current config is ok for most users, but why not have options on a more expensive model such as USB ports and an internal HDD for those needing such. My same gripe with the iPod. I have the 120Gb Classic. I really wanted an iPod touch with 120Gb HDD, but Apple don't make it. Sigh

External hard drive and ESata connection on K9A2 Platinum (inop)

I have the same problem as the user who posted on this topic in Oct last year. I have two eSATA external drives, one a Lacie, the other a GForce. Both are 1TB and, luckily, have USB, FW and eSATA ports. When I got my PC it was running XP Pro 32. In that OS the GForce works fine USB or FW but is not recognized at all when plugged into either of the eSATA ports. I tried different cables. I then upgraded to W7 Ultimate 64. Same results. I also purchased the Lacie drive. It works fine USB or FW, but is not recognized eSATA. The only difference with the LAcie drive is that my PC did try to load a PCI device driver.
Reading the old topic I went to Fastbuild but could not see the drive attached via the eSATA port to add. No additional drives were recognized. I am not the experienced with setting up RAID, FYI.
I am reluctant to falsh the bios with an MSI update as everything is working otherwise. I do have the XP and Vista CDs with the MSI drivers on them that the builder (Powermax) gave me.
I really would like to get these drives running eSATA. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
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This post is my attempt to add some clarity on the issue of making the eSATA ports on your K9A2 board usable. My conclusion is based on a lot of trial and error and reading a lot of old posts on this board on the subject. I have purposely made a new post so that it is searchable and will hopefully save someone else a lot of time and grief.
If you are like me you will be frustrated because the eSATA ports on your machine appear inoperable and do not recognize an external drive although the drives work fine connected with a USB or FW cable. This is because the eSATA ports on the K9A2 are controlled by a Promise T3 on board RAID controller (it may be pseudo RAID but that's for another discussion-- all we need to know is it controls those ports). It also controls the internal SATA ports 5 and 6, FWIW.
You will probably find that the Promise is disabled in Setup. <DEL> at POST to see setup on the K9A2. You are looking in the Integrated Peripherals menu choice, submenu Extra RAID Controller (for Promise RAID). When you enter here you will see if your Promise is enabled or disabled. If it is enabled you have another problem. Likely it is disabled, BUT DO NOT ENABLE IT AT THIS TIME.
Go back to the Integrated Peripherals Setup menu. Then go to the On-Chip ATA Devices submenu and then the SATA Mode (for SB600 RAID) menu under that. If the enabled selection is either AHCI or IDE, you can leave it be and go back and enable the Promise controller making sure that you have first loaded the drivers which can be found here: http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1332
Please note I do not know if the Vista drivers for the Promise will work with W7. Likely, but I never got to find out. It's probably a good idea to load a set of SB600 drivers to a floppy right about now in case you need to restore them later too.
If however, you find that your you SB600 is set to RAID (not IDE or AHCI) then unless you are prepared to give up your RAID array, you are done now and can never use your eSATA ports or the Promise controller. This is because -- as I have read in older posts -- the Promise controller loads its own BIOS, and if the SB600 controller is also set to RAID there will be a conflict. (My SB600 is set to RAID, the end result of enabling the Promise -- before I knew all this -- was the destruction of my RAID drivers and a never ending boot/BSOD loop). If you are like me, you may receive answers answers on this forum like:" AHCI has to enabled for the eSATA ports to work". A more accurate and helpful statement would be that if your SB600 controller is set to RAID you cannot use the Promise controller. If you want to use the Promise controller your *SB600* controller should be set to AHCI (if you have an existing RAID set, wave it goodbye).
Summary: If you want to use your eSATA ports and are not using RAID, set SB600 to AHCI, load Promise drivers and enable Promise is setup. If you are using a RAID set driven by the SB600 give up now and go buy a PCI card with a couple of eSATA ports on it and hope you can install it around your video cards (not a lot of room on the K9A2 with modern video cards).
I would be ecstatic for someone to tell me I'm wrong, but I don't think they will. I have no idea why someone thought it was a good idea to design the board this way, but it is what it is, eh?
I hope this post saved you some time.
R/Anthony
PS: Stating the obvious: have a recent system image, startup disk and a full set of drivers before you screw around in Setup if you are of limited experience like me.

Consume external web service and experience connection timed out issue

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I followed tutorial:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18941_01/tutorials/jdtut_11r2_14/jdtut_11r2_14.html to consume external web service.
At step 2,substep 4, I experience the following error:
"DCA-40002: The WSDL document is invalid due to the following reason: WSDLException: faultCode=PARSER_ERROR: Failed to read wsdl file at:"http://www.webservicex.net/WeatherForecast.asmx?WSDL". Caused by : java.net.ConnectException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect."
I have tried to set up proxy:Tools > Preferences->Web Browser and Proxy. But it still doesn't work. Any idea?
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Edited by: user13304960 on Mar 15, 2012 8:42 PM
Edited by: user13304960 on Mar 15, 2012 8:43 PM

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. I have tried these 2 tutorials before. Both worked well. Publish an web service by myself, then consume it with a client. It works. But for this external wsdl published by USA weather forecast, it doesn't work. Navigate to http://www.webservicex.net/WeatherForecast.asmx?WSDL through firefox, and right response is returned. I wonder why connection timed out occurred and how to deal with it.
Could you please share your experience with me? Thanks.
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Satellite A105: External USB HDD and IPod connection issues

Hello,
I got laptop toshiba satellite A105, last weekend I reinstalled windows on my laptop using recovery disks and now I got two problems.
First problem when I connect my external hard drive, my computer don't show any icon of this hard drive but when I check in disk management external hard drive is connected to my computer.
Second problem is my IPod, similar problem to the hard drive don't shows when is connected to my laptop but when I checked in device manager under usb controller is showing but with yellow circle and question mark.
Could you help me to solve my problem?
Kings regards
Wojtek

Hi
Did you try to refresh the USB port drivers??
You should try this;
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- Reboot the notebook
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Interface between real instruments and macbook

Hi all,
I'm running a macbook and am keen to get recording in garageband. I have a guitar pedal, that I am unsure of whether or not I should connect to the macbook. ( Live thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=869286&tstart=0 ).
I was wondering what sort of audio interface equipment you would advise for use to plug the guitar, pedal, mic etc into the macbook for recording. I don't want to spend the earth on a solution, however, I am keen to get a quality, noise-free solution etc.
Cheers,
Dan

There is no problem plugging the output of the pedal into the line-in on your MacBook, the computer will not be damaged. Try that first and decide if what you record is what you desire, quality-wise.
If you find you still want an interface (and if you want to use a Mic, you do need one), take a look here:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/Interfaces.html

Real Instruments Tracks Not Playing

In one of my songs, the real instruments do not play. However, I can hear the reverb and echo for these tracks. The tracks still respond to editing. The drum loop and Software Piano play just fine.
Last night, all tracks worked properly, even after deleting a real instrument track. I saved and shut down for the night.
After booting up today, the remaining real instrument tracks have only very minimal volume; really, just a faint whisper. Track info remains the same and I can see some real instrument track monitor activity, but that's about it for the real instruments.
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I went into the master track to see what's going on.
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Each day I learn something new. Life is good.

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Controlling multiple external swfs from main timeline

Hi, I've been trying to combine the features of two tutorials I found, one that deals with controlling external swf's from the main timeline and the other that explains how to load and unload multiple external swf's. I'd like to be able to load and unload multiple external swf's, and control these swf's buttons from the main timeline.
I asked this same question on the forum of the site where I found these tutorials, and receive only one reply saying that "it should'nt be hard to do." but they did not elaborate any further. This left me think that I was missing something very obvious and I've spent too much time now trying to work what it is now. I understand pretty much how both pieces of code work, but just can't work out how to combine them.
If someone could explain it to me, I'd much appreciate it.
Tutorial One code - controlling an external swf from the main timeline.
var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("swfs/balls.swf");
ldr.load(urlReq);
function loadHandler (event:Event) {
var myClip:MovieClip = event.target.content;
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myClip.myBlueBalls.stop();
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myClip.myBlueBalls.play();
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myClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, myClipOver);
myClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, myClipOut);
// listener
ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadHandler);
Tutorial Two code - loading and unloading multiple external swfs.
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var Ypos:Number = 180;
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loader.x = Xpos;
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addChild(loader);
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demon.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btnClick);
strongman.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btnClick);

I will not be able to help you with whatever relaxatraja provided though it is purported by relaxatraja to be clearly explaining what I was explaining (???).
Your loadHandler function appears a bit confused. For the code you show I don't see you assigning any event listeners for the events that will be dispatched in the loaded file. As I showed earlier, your loadHandler function should be assigning a listener for the event that will be dispatched (modified slightly below). and if you have three different events being dispatched in the loaded file, then you'll do better to have three different listeners. I show only one below for one of the events you dispatch...
function loadHandler (event:Event) {
// assign a listener for the loaded file's goExit function's event
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// I can't make sense of what you have here
    removeChild(myClip); // why ?? - it hasn't been added yet as far as I can see - error 2007?
    var newSWFRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("swfs/" + event.target.name + ".swf"); // the event.target is the Loader
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    ldr.x = Xpos;
    ldr.y = Ypos;
    addChild(myClip); // why?? it has nothing in it
function event1Handler(e:Event):void {
    // do whatever is involved with what the "close" event is supposed to do
    trace("goExit function executed");
As far as what you have in the loaded file, you appear to be trying to pass the files names as if they were parameters. The file naming should be done at the receiving side for the event handler function for the event listener. While you could create a custom event that include parameters that you can pass, that's another level of coding that is better left for a future experience.
Study the following - understand it before you try to use it.
Below is a link to some files I made for another posting that demonstrates what I have been explaining. The neurope file is the main file. Publish the netherlands file so that you have an swf to load for it, and then run the neurope file. The file that gets loaded (netherlands) only has a button in it that when clicked dispatches an event for which the main file (neurope) has assigned a listener. The main file displays a message when the button gets clicked in the loaded file.
http://www.nedwebs.com/Flash/neurope.zip

Does the GarageBand '11 come with new instruments and loops?

As I have mentioned in my quesiton above, does the upgrade to GarageBand '11 provide new 'real instruments' and loops?

Thari_B wrote:
Cheers. Do you know where to get new loop sets and real instruments for GarageBand '09 v.5.1?
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/PluginsApplesJamPacks.html
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/PlugInsSynths.html
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/PlugInsSoundFonts.html
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http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/Tutorials.html#allaboutsoundfonts
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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.

Error while trying to synchronize audio and MIDI. Sample rate 42804 recognized. Check conflict between Garageband and external device.

Sometimes, while playing back my software instrument songs, I get an intermittent pop-up error message, saying "Error while trying to synchronize audio and MIDI. Sample rate 42804 recognized. Check conflict between Garageband and external device."
(Sometimes the five digit number is different, but remains a five-digit number beginning with "4".)
Simultaneously, the song stops until I press the "Okay" button in the pop-up window.
When I continue to play the song, the sound is jerky and clipped, and the playhead doesn't keep up with the song, and then suddenly jumps to the part of the song currently being played.
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Hello,
open your Audio MIDI Setup utility and set the input to 44100
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12710638#12710638

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