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Banjo and strings help
I'm looking to add some banjo to a folk song my sister wrote/recorded and the best option seems to be guitarism controlling thumbjam. Just wondering if anyone knew of a better option that I might be missing.
Also wondering if there's anything better than GarageBand's smart strings for simple string arrangements? Your help is greatly appreciated!
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On the subject of strings...I honestly think there's no substitute for playing each part in separately. If this isn't your thing, isn't that the glory of ios? Find someone who can help out?
Was doing exactly this last night, playing the banjo patch in Thumbjam with guitarism controlling it. Worked like a champ.
@drelbs did you find that without fret muting in guitarism that the banjo strings rang out too long? I thought it sounded more natural that way (with fret muting), but maybe a little too short and wasn't sure if there was any way to adjust that.
@matt Can you elaborate on the sounds being too short with fret muting? If you have fret muting on, the sounds should only stop when you mute them. If you don't mute them they should continue to play their natural length (which in this case you found to be too long).
I didn't turn on feet muting - though now that you mention it I wasn't strumming much - more along the lines of tapping strings in different patterns - and it didn't seem to hold too long. Then again, lots of notes were flying so I might not have noticed.
On the iPhone, what I could really use is "dumb strings" which is the Smart Strings that don't bunch up so its easier to play individual strings. Maybe I overlooked that option.
@drelbs Smart Strings should never bunch up if you're just tapping individual strings... they should only bunch up if you strum. Is that different from what you're seeing?
@Rhism if I have fret muting on and I don't hold the chord down it is a short note that plays and is much closer to what I'm used to hearing from a live banjo, but a little shorter. Not bad, just trying to tweak a little. I think it's more desirable to have it just a bit longer if strumming rather than picking, but not as long as it plays if fret muting is off.
@matt I see, you're playing the banjo muted and it's sounding a bit shorter than you'd like. The muted notes are intended to be as short as possible, but I'll look into this a bit more...
Also, the release time of the instrument in TJ can have an effect on this too. Play around with it in Edit->Sample.
@sonosaurus, how would I set the banjo up in TJ so it sounds right when I play chords in guitarism? Chromatic or major scale?
Be sure to turn OFF the Scale Lock feature in TJ's MIDI settings, and it will use the MIDI notes received without modification.
Oh awesome! Thanks so much Sonosaurus!
@Rhism: I played around with it again, and it seems that I must have been dragging a finger across two strings occasionally - it's easier to do on the iPhone than the iPad.
Not a huge deal, I just have to be less sloppy when I pick.
@drelbs Good to know, I'll think about ways to make this even more robust. Thanks for confirming!