Optimizing Garage Band

I am trying to record 7 live instrument tracks through microphones and and interface with garage band (on a Macbook Pro), but the audio keeps cutting out around three minutes in. All the settings are as they should be, according to the garage band help document on optimizing garage band. What more can I do?

the bottleneck is likely the slow internal HD in the laptop. the solution is probably a 7200RPM HD in a FireWire case

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I know this is a garage band forum, but if anyone has an 896 and KNOWS how best to set it up, I'd appreciate some tips.
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Hi - The 896HD IS directly connected to the mac - the FireWire port works fine with other devices - I'm not daisy chaining & have tried your suggestion to park the AudioMIDIsetup.plist file in the Trash & still no change. - I have contacted Motu Support who have responded very quickly and have asked if I've reset the device & if the FireWire port is working - I've told them I've carried out the necessary maintenance and am now awaiting another response from them hopefully with a fix!

Record live band practice with Garage Band

Any tips on how to best record a band practice with a single mic and Garage Band? It doesnt have to be amazing quality, just something we can post online to give an idea of sound. We have a sno-ball mic and a macbook. Thoughts are appreciated. The band is 8-pieces (yeah horn section) so thats why we just want to do the quick and dirty for this. Thanks!

Phillyberg125 wrote:
Last question:
How is it that the flash recorders will work and not comp sound but the mic i'd buy for the same price and usb into the mac does?
Reasonable question -
Both will work, both can sound great, both can sound terrible.
Recording into a computer is more complex because the computer does other things. Flash recorders only do one thing, so they're optimized for that. A million things can go wrong with a computer, but the flash recorders are dedicated (albeit limited) devices. They're small and reliable, and won't try to connect to a wireless network or write to a Spotlight database in the middle of a recording and crash.
But they don't necessarily sound better than a computer.
My Sony flash recorder will sound better than recording into a computer with a so-so interface and so-so mic because it has better audio components. The mic pres, mics, and digital converters in it are well made, so it sounds great.
However, if I use a better interface, mic pres, and mic and record into my computer, that will sound better than my Sony recorder, but will also be harder to manage. If I just want to set up and record to a single (stereo) mic source, the Sony is way more convenient and sounds great. If I want the best sounding recording I can make, I'll use my computer, interface, and a bunch of outboard pres and mics.
I think there may be some USB mics that are OK sounding. I know some people who use them and get good results. But generally, USB mics are not that great sounding. They combine a mic, a digital converter, and an interface into one inexpensive package. The snowball sells for around $100. I'm not sure how that divides among the components, but that's very little money that's gone into making the mic, converter, and interface. It lets you get up and running for cheaps, but it's so cheap that it's never going to sound all that great.
If you spent a hundred dollars on just the interface, and a couple of hundred dollars on mics going into your computer, it will sound better than the snowball because the components are better.
The flash recorder won't sound better because it's a flash recorder. It's just that if you spend around (picking random number) $300 on a flash recorder, it's dedicating maybe $150 towards the mic and pres, and $150 towards the recorder, optimized to work together in a dedicated device. That will outperform the $50 mic in the snowball.
Your setup sounds like it can take you in two very different directions - one simple (one mic to record the room), the other complex (at least 8 inputs of interface/mixer to record the entire band). Since setting up the complex solution would be a big jump in price to get decent sounding equipment, it sounds like the simple solution might be a better way to start, for now.
You could buy a small interface and a couple of mics and that would rival (or be better than some) flash recorders. But you'd still be looking to upgrade to a more flexible interface for the whole band. And you'd still be paying a couple of hundred bucks. Still - you shouldn't rule that out. Maybe buying a small interface and a couple of mics would be a good way to start. A gateway drug to a bigger, more flexible interface.
Or, for the same money that you'd pay for the small interface and mics, if you're still thinking of just plopping a mic down in one place and making a simple stereo recording (not multitrack), you could get a flash recorder which will not only work for now, but will continue to be useful to you even after you get a larger interface and expand.
Flash recorders are always good to have around. Just being able to take something out of your pocket and record, fast and easy - that's always useful. And since you're talking about recording from one spot, why deal with a computer, wires, setup, hard drives, mic stands, a chair to put the computer on, a power cable from the computer to the outlet, someone walking into the cable, the computer falling off of the chair, the hinge on the screen breaking, everyone getting mad at the person who knocked the computer off the chair, that person feeling really bad, dropping out of the band, getting depressed, wandering around Lafayette Park in a chicken suit, getting in all sorts of trouble... it's just a slippery slope.
However, no one solution is intrinsically better than the other, or intrinsically better-sounding. Both will work, both can sound great, both can sound terrible.

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Check out the article below to walk you through getting GarageBand for free. One thing to remember is that in order to get it, you would need to have purchased your iPhone after September 1st.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5913
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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.
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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.
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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 ? !

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Hope you guys can help me. I have installed iLife and have been attempting to use Garageband. Certain looping elements seem to work - but the Drum, Piano, Bass and Guitar loops do not seem to install. I have done multiple reinstalls and the Loops just don’t seem to be there. I DO have all of the single note samples of instruments, Sounds and Jingles and Garageband Demos.
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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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Ok my iPad mini suddenly about 3 weeks ago started shutting down to the black screen w/logo then after a min or 2 go to lock screen n allows me to slide open, now it did start right with garage band, I've erased reset n reinstalled from cloud all apps

I have store receipt future shop I have baught iPod touch Apple TV lg phone this iPad bellin case d link router multiple cords I tunes card the least future shop and apple should do is take this back and repair and sell to your discount places and I should for my support get a new no issue ipad unless you respond and it truly is A fix ... iPad mini I couldn't afford full size air it's only a week or 2 shy of 6 months and has 9.8gb left and only 5+ used I shouldn't be crashing and being disrupted trying to use a 350 dollar machine that's under 6 months I tryed the garage band fix from a site but it crashes in any app just hit or miss all day ...help me, I love Nd enjoy my od touch n it's only 4th gen, I use my Apple TV daily would love to afford a MacBook Pro and ipad air but I'm on disability and am only 30 addiction. And it's later health effects caught up and I use my apple devices to increase daily life, as it's dull n hardly fix my issue with a info n direction solution or get future shop to honour me a new ipad in exchange for this with receipt box m was never out of a shock proof case. No scratches a tall not even minor n when ur iPod works better then ur ipad that *** n shows the ipad is defective HELP ME PLZ RYAN TOBIN
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I have store receipt future shop I have baught iPod touch Apple TV lg phone this iPad bellin case d link router multiple cords I tunes card the least future shop and apple should do is take this back and repair and sell to your discount places and I should for my support get a new no issue ipad unless you respond and it truly is A fix ... iPad mini I couldn't afford full size air it's only a week or 2 shy of 6 months and has 9.8gb left and only 5+ used I shouldn't be crashing and being disrupted trying to use a 350 dollar machine that's under 6 months I tryed the garage band fix from a site but it crashes in any app just hit or miss all day ...help me, I love Nd enjoy my od touch n it's only 4th gen, I use my Apple TV daily would love to afford a MacBook Pro and ipad air but I'm on disability and am only 30 addiction. And it's later health effects caught up and I use my apple devices to increase daily life, as it's dull n hardly fix my issue with a info n direction solution or get future shop to honour me a new ipad in exchange for this with receipt box m was never out of a shock proof case. No scratches a tall not even minor n when ur iPod works better then ur ipad that *** n shows the ipad is defective HELP ME PLZ RYAN TOBIN
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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.
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I need help with cutting and changing an already made song in garage band on the IPad.

For a school pep rally I'm looking to write some music on drums that our drumline will perform in the pep rally. In the song although I'm looking on taking a few measures out of the song "Some Nights" by Fun. and putting it during a long rest we'll have for a really good effect on the song. To do this I saw that garage band had a sampler where I could cut music and play those cuts instantly with a touch of a button, and I was hoping that it would be possible that I could buy the song and some how import it to garage band so that I could play around with it a little bit.
I've still yet to find any way of doing this although and I'm looking for any suggestions you guys might have! The pep rally isn't for a good 3 or four weeks so I've got a good amount of time, But the sooner anyone can help the better!
Thanks for your time!
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This is a poor way of doing this but the only way I found to do this is to record your music into the sampler using the microphone then record the sample. I don't like doing this because of clarity and lack of manipulating the track once created. It would be nice if GB added this feature. Also it would be cool if you could mix down the tracks into one so we could have more tracks to work with.

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