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When Apple brought GarageBand to the iPad, everyone knew it would be something special. What people tend to show off most of all are the touchscreen-controlled instruments, and stuff like the beatboxes and the amazing way you can strum and bend guitar and bass strings with your fingers. But GarageBand also has a built-in sampler, which can record either from the unit’s own mic or from anything connected via the USB camera connection kit that is able to deliver sound such as a USB mic. There is also a new generation of devices coming out, most notably the Alesis IO Dock, that are able to provide professional quality, phantom-powered XLR inputs for your iPad. So getting high quality sound in is easier than ever.

You can get really creative with sampling to add spoken phrases, sound effects and instruments to a project and thanks to the ability to pitch shift samples and add effects you’re not limited to keeping them sounding exactly as they do at the start.

In GarageBand’s list of sound sources you can find one called Sampler.

GarageBand for iPad's Sampler

This differs from the Audio Recorder in that it records into a sampler and lets you edit the sounds you record. The Audio Recorder lays whatever you record straight down onto an audio track in your project. Tap on the sampler and in the next window you will see the iPad has picked up whatever input device it finds. If you don’t have any special audio hardware connected, this will be the iPad’s microphone.

The recording interface.

If you are hoping to record a sample that’s in time with a backing track, you will need to use headphones or the backing will bleed through from the iPad’s speakers and into the sample. A better way to do this might be to record a loop into a regular audio track. Assuming that you are recording the sample in isolation (which is more common) you can do it without any special monitoring. Simply hit the big red Start button and record your sound. Remember that the iPad’s mic is on the top edge, between the headphone port and the on/off button. When you’re done, you’ll see a waveform appear.

Recording a sample.

You will now be able to use the onscreen piano keys to play your sound, and much hilarity will probably ensue from speaking a sample and then pitching it way up or down. Pick up the handles at either end of the waveform in Trim mode and you can set the start and end points. Hit the Tune button and you can adjust the fine and coarse tuning of the sample, and the Shape tool lets you set the attack, so you can have it fade in if you like. Use the Revert button if you want to undo any of these changes. The “rev” button will reverse the sample, and activating the Loop button will make it loop continually when a note is pressed. You can get some pretty wacky effects by activating the Arpeggiator on the keyboard.

Explore the buttons on offer.

If you go to the section called My Samples, you will find the sample you just recorded has appeared and there are some stock Apple ones too. Click on 'Add To Library' and you get the chance to give your sample a name—crucial if you are going to keep track of them—and add it to GarageBand’s onboard library.

Naming your sample.

To record your sample in a project, use the Transport controls that run along the top of the window and play the keyboard in the same way you usually would, using the Record button to start and Stop to finish. This time monitoring isn’t an issue because you are recording MIDI, not sound.

Recording the sample in a project.

If you tap the Timeline button at the top to be taken to the Project area, you will see your MIDI part has been recorded.

In the track area you can see the recorded performance.

You can alter the effects that are on the track by clicking on the tiny mixer icon at the top right and accessing the track’s settings. Add echo and reverb if you like, and also quantize or transpose the MIDI part form here.

The Track Settings.

Samples that you record are stored inside the project but at present, can’t be sent directly out of the app for file transfer or sharing. But there is a way round it. First, connect your iPad to your Mac and open iTunes. Then go into your songs list in GarageBand on the iPad and click on the Share icon, then Send to iTunes.

Send the project to iTunes.

In the next window, click on the GarageBand file format.

Send it in GarageBand format.

The file is magically sent to your Mac and if you open iTunes and go to the iPad > Apps section and navigate down to File Sharing > GarageBand, you will see your file, together with any audio mixdowns you may have done. These can be dragged to the desktop and if you open the GarageBand file in GarageBand on your Mac, you will be able to get access to your samples!

One other interesting tidbit is that although Apple locks down the file system on the iPad, it is possible to convert your existing samples from various formats to work in GarageBand on the iPad. If this is what you need to do, check out GBSampleManager by Redmatica here.

Cutting and editing music in Garageband is as simple as using the (Command + T) option on your keyboard.

For instance, you line up the “Ruler,” to the point you want to isolate, and then use the (Command + T) function. You can do this in two separate areas of your workspace, in the “Piano Roll Grid,” or in the regular workspace.

One can also edit the music using the Marquee line within the “Piano Roll Grid.” For example, when you zoom in on the audio file, you can highlight the part of it you want to eliminate down to the tiniest detail.

You simply highlight it by hovering the ‘+’ sign over the Audio Region, clicking and dragging over the part you want to delete and then hit the “delete” button your keyboard. This comes in handy for audio rather than MIDI recordings.

However, you have to make sure that you’re isolating just one track, whether it be a sample, an audio recording, or a software instrument track, etc. You can’t cut and edit more than one piece of music at once. It has to be just one.

How To Undo the Previous Command (Command + Z)

In case you make a mistake, you can always hit the (Command + Z) function to go back to where you were before.

One of the great things about Garageband is that all of the commands used for day-to-day use on the computer are transferable to the software. It’s all fairly intuitive.

Many of the commands that you’ve grown accustomed to as a Mac user are all the same functions for Garageband. Garageband for pc.

How To Zoom In And Out (Command + Left and Right Arrow Key)

You can zoom in and out on your MIDI region to see the audio file in more detail by separating your fingers or moving them closer together.

This is especially useful for when you’re trying to edit minute details, that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to see and thus, isolate.

You can also zoom in and out through the (Command – Left or Right arrow key).

Merging Tracks Together (Command + J)

Another incredibly useful editing tool in Garageband is the (Command + J) function, which allows the user to essentially combine or merge the tracks together.

This stops the user from having to copy and paste every little individual track. Instead, one can just merge all of the music together as one track, and then put it on a loop.

To do this, just select the two or more regions you want to combine and hit the (Command + J) function and it will all come together.

It’s a great way of saving time and energy during the editing process.

Using The Cycle Area For Editing

The cycle area on top of the workspace in Garageband is used for repeating the same bar of a recording over and over again. There are a few purposes for this, including practicing a part just before recording, multiple takes, and editing.

For instance, a user can loop the same part repeatedly to judge whether the proper changes have been made during editing.

In other words, if you’ve recorded vocals, and forgot the lyrics during one part and said “um,” or something like that, you can loop the same part over and over again, and figure out what needs to be eliminated down to the last millisecond, without having to press “Play” repeatedly.

You know that Cycle Mode is on when it’s displayed as a yellow trip in the top portion of the ruler. When it’s turned off, it’s no longer yellow.

There are two ways of turning it on and off:

Garageband Audio Files

You can press the Cycle button within the control bar, or simply press ‘C’ on your keyboard.

Changing at what point Cycle Mode starts and stops:

Select the top part of the ruler, then drag your cursor to the desired starting and stopping part of the recording.

How to Edit Using The Re-Size Pointer (Trimming)

Another way of editing the music is through the “Resize Pointer,” which is at the end of every piece of the “event,” as Garageband’s “Quick Help” section calls it.

Take the cursor and grab your recording, moving it from side to side, left to right. Using the “Snap To Grid” setting/function allows for the music to literally “snap” back to the line, and thus, stays more in time.

Snap to Grid Function (Command + G)

It’s a lot easier to edit music in Garageband when you have this option selected within the “Edit” menu on the toolbar on top. You can turn this function on and off, by hitting the (Command + G) function.

Essentially, as I mentioned above, what this does is it literally “snaps” the music right back to the lines on the grid, that way whenever you edit a piece of music, it falls back exactly on the beat.

If you want, you can turn this function off and see how difficult it is to edit music in Garageband. It becomes super annoying, however, there are moments where it’s worth your while to turn it off.

How To Copy and Paste in Garageband (Command + C and Command + V)

Once you’ve isolated the part you want, hit the (Command + C) function to copy it, and then the (Command + V) function to paste as many copies of it that you want.

Usually, after I’ve created a melody with the Steinway Grand Piano, I’ll open up a new “Software Instrument” track, and then copy and paste the music into a different instrument track.

This function allows you to fill out your mix, without coming up with an entirely different musical section. In many cases, you can create an entirely different piece of music, just by copy/pasting it onto a new Instrument track.

Another Way Of Copying And Pasting an Instrument Track

1) Select the Audio file you want to copy.

2) Hold down the “Option” key.

3) Drag the cursor to the left or right

4) While holding down the “Option” key, release the mouse and voila, you’ve just copied and pasted a new MIDI region.

Important Things To Note When Chopping Music

Whenever you want to isolate an audio recording, it’s worth noting that it may be helpful to understand at what beats-per-minute the song is, that way you can trim music at a specific beat.

This is especially important whencreating music with samples (link here)

For instance, in a track that I made using the theme song written by Bear McCreary for The Walking Dead, I had to figure out the BPM of the track, that way I could make a different drum track for it.

If you don’t have the proper BPM set up, it’ll be almost impossible to make drums for the song, because nothing will line up, and will sound unsynchronized.

Then, when you try and add other melodies through software instruments and so on, synchronization will be almost impossible. So knowing the Beats Per Minute is essential.

The best way of doing this is just counting along to the song by hitting the table with your hand or bobbing your head along to the beat.

Then, grab a metronome – or use one online, on your phone, or in your DAW – and match the tempo of the song with how fast you were slapping the table.

I’d recommend using a real metronome because they’re better to use, you can read about the one I recommend here.

There are other ways of figuring out the BPM of a song, of course, but this is how I do it.

(Every person knows how to count the BPM intuitively because whenever you’re jamming along to a song by bobbing your head, you move along to the beat. I’ll write a more in-depth article on this topic later).

Moreover, you can check whether you’ve calculated it properly or not through the way the MIDI Region lines up in your DAW.

*There are other options available online, including songbpm.com, and beatsperminuteonline.com. The latter is superior for calculating the beats-per-minute because it’s manual and can be used for the most obscure of music. However, the former is more for commercially available songs.

Using the Score Editor to Fix Your Music (For People Who Can Read Music)

I imagine this topic will be too much for the average DAW user, because frankly, most music producers, especially nowadays, don’t know how to read music. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s just the way it is.

1) You can access the Score Editor simply by double-clicking on your music or “Midi Region.”

2) And then go down into the Smart Controls, and click on the button that says “Score.”

In this section, you can edit the music through standard notation. I actually use this every once in a while, because I learned how to read music when I was a kid (although, I’m not nearly as good as I was as a kid).

I usually use it for creating bass lines. Sometimes, it’s harder to hear if your bass line is off-key, so you can either push it up a few octaves so you can hear it or, you can look at the standard notation to figure out if the music is off-key or not.

Naming Your Tracks

If you want to name your track, use the “Secondary Click” function (“right-click,” and that’ll bring up your options where you can see where it says, “Rename Track.”

You can do the very same thing to the actual MIDI Region.

This seems like an obvious one because it is. If you’re going to be making music in a DAW, naming each track region will save you a ton of time, running through each one, trying to figure out which one is the kick and which one is the snare.

Reordering Tracks Through Drag and Drop

By clicking on and dragging the “Track Headers,” Garageband users can actually easily move each software instrument track to and from wherever they want.

For instance, grouping the guitars together, or the kick and bassline. You don’t have to manually move the MIDI Region either; it will move with the Track Header.

Time Quantizing

Rather than dragging and dropping each note so it falls exactly on the grid-lines in the Piano Roll, which is normally what I would do, you can use the Time Quantize function down in the DAW’s Smart Controls.

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For instance, if you’ve recorded music with a MIDI Keyboard, and some of the notes are offbeat, using the Time Quantizing function will bring each note to where it needs to be, rather than doing it all manually.

1) First things first, in the Software Instrument track, choose the option “Region,” rather than “Notes,” in the Smart Controls.

2) In your Smart Controls, underneath the setting, “Time Quantize,” select 1/8 Note, and keep your Quantizing strength at around ’75 to 100.’ This should suck in all of the notes accordingly.

Obviously, there are more Timing settings one can use, but this is as far as I’ve ever used the quantizing function.

Some people argue against the use of Time Quantizing, accusing the practice of robbing the music of its “soul.” The argument goes that there are idiosyncrasies and personality traits eliminated from the music through the quantization practice.

For instance, when playing a guitar riff, if something is slightly off-key or not in proper time, the inaccuracy and “incorrectness” of the note may precisely be, the exact thing that gives it its unique flavor.

The Blues Scale, probably one of the most used scales in guitar playing, is the epitome of this. The Blues Scale isn’t classically “correct,” due to its flattened fifth in relation to the minor pentatonic scale, or flattened third in relation to the major pentatonic.

How to Select and De-Select Options Way Faster

This is another one that I just came across. Rather than manually selecting, say, for example, the “Mute” button on a bunch of tracks, and having to go through each one individually, there is a way of hitting all of them at once.

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For instance, if I want to hit the “Mute” button on 10 of my 20 Software Instrument tracks, I’ll hover my cursor over the “Mute” button, and then click the track-pad and hold it while I drag the cursor down the screen. This will hit every “Mute” button on the way down.

It’s the same practice for turning them off.

Conclusion

Edit Pre Recorded Audio On Garageband Mac Free

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