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GarageBand - Chilled D&B
View from the top, a chilled drum and bass track using GarageBand. Live controls are a little fiddly on the mini..
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Very very cool. But I'm concerned that this was done I GB. Was it difficult enough?? Did your apps crash with regularity? Did the sound mysteriously vanish? Did you need forum help to get unstuck?
Why don't I use GB all the time??
And what was the found sound in the track?
@KlaatuNinja Love this camera set-up. Always good to see the work-in-progress in action...makes me come back to the idea that GB is maybe the most underrated/overlooked app. Weirdly. Maybe it isn't. Maybe it's just got a poor brand, too available or something. I often wonder -with the exception of it's refusal to be an AB input- what our general reaction to it would be if it just appeared, as is, the work of some unknown developer.....
I've never understood the lack of love for GB. And, lately... It's even got some of the coolest features of Logix added for free, i.e. drummers, loop players, smart instruments, supports IAA & AU. You can export to AudioShare, audio cut/paste. Don't get it. Must be the branding thing.
Honestly, although I dig many of the genius apps I've collected so far, for making music I don't see how an iPad musician really needs anything more than GB.
ps. Awesome track too
If it weren't for the size and I/O limitations, it would still be on my iPad.
Exactly this.
One of the reasons I went with GB. Had an idea and wanted to get it out without problems.
You mean the vocal? That was me, lol. I was listening to the tune and the words kind of came to me. I put on a bit of an American accent..
I love the making of music, not tedious hours of production. As soon as it feels like work all the fun is gone for me.
Well, you can use any of the IAA and AU supported apps and you can paste in or import in sample clips.. so that's decent "in", and you can record and export out to iTunes, AudioShare or several other services. That's plenty of "out".
So where are the "I/O Limitations"?
It is large, but you get so freakin' much for that file size, ie. editor, smart instruments, drummers, loads of looping samples, etc. It's really like 10 apps in 1.
I'm not saying it couldn't be more "open" but I think many wrongfully dismiss a potentially VERY powerful piece of iOS music software for no seriously legitimate reasons. Maybe because the name "Garage Band" has a stigma attached to it as being nothing but an amateur's toy that used to free. Is it still? Or is it a whopping $5?
Just checked. $5. Seriously? Considering everything this puppy is capable of? Again... I don't get it.
Yep, I know all this. I've used GB a lot and don't see any stigma in using it. All apps are just tools...
I mainly use my iPad for live performance and GB's lack of MIDI customization for triggers and lack of Link support are deal breakers.
@skiphunt - I don't dismiss it as a toy. It has a lot going for it including some good sounds, but with a 32G iPad, Auria, Cubasis, and several other large apps, I have to decide. Every once in a while I bring it back in and enjoy it for a spell, but I always end up sacrificing it for something else. It's an east decision to sacrifice, since I know it is likely to always be there if I decide to bring it back in, and all my songs are still in the cloud.
My biggest beef with I/O is not being available in AB's I/P slot. I know there are workarounds, and if it were to have multi-outs presented in AB, AUM, Modstep, etc. it would have a permanent home.
Not only it lacks Audiobus, but also the ability of sending/receiving MIDI or exporting/importing MIDI data, and finally a proper mixer. It's powerful, it's packed with a lot of cool stuff for a ludicrously small price tag, but it's not well suited to complete productions - it's possible, and I myself did it, but well suited? Not at all.
Good point on the midi and mixer. Huge potential if it filled some f the gaps.
I don't want to sound like a GB cheerleader or anything. It's just that every rare moment that I open it up to revisit, I ask myself why I don't use it more often. And, I rarely have a good answer.
I used one of those new Chinese smart instruments the other day, and but together a nice bed from the new live looping feature. Recorded and exported to Audioshare, then finished up in AUM with some other stuff before output.
Was impressed at how good those new Chinese loops and instruments sound. Wasn't a hassle at all to incorporate them into an AUM flow. Wondered why I don't use GB more often.
It's $5 and I've paid that much for much lesser apps that don't even have AS export and o my do one thing. GB has to be tge best overall iOS music app value in the entire AppStore & it rarely gets even a mention.
You can send midi to it - at least notes. I've used Soundprism before to control the GB guitar
Now there's a thought....
That's interesting. I didn't even know that was possible. thx!
UPDATE: Oh wow!!! He's right! I just used Poly to control the guitar in GB. Then, with the help of midiflow, I used GuitarCapo+ to play the strings of the Chinese instrument Erhu, stings and chords. Way cool.
If I like an app or instrument, I accept it for what it is and work it into the picture however I can.
GB was my first iPad music app and has been my most used because of no big set-up and knowing it just works. It sounds good and has much capability. I can also open GB projects in Logic. I've used Gadget a lot as well for much the same reasons. I want to (and plan to) get more into the AB, Modstep, AUM, Auria Pro kind of workflow, but it's a slower process for me to get comfortable with.
@KlaatuNinja
Nice piece of music and splendid video. Compliments
Very nice track!