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AUFX (effects in general) in GarageBand
I scrolled and searched for something on this, but I didn't find anything after nearly an hour.
I'm trying to add effects to tracks that have been cut in GarageBand, but it seems you can't set GarageBand as an input. Are there any feeds addressing workarounds for this? Alternatively, if I wanted to re-record these tracks so I can set effects with AUFX on them, how do I apply them to the GarageBand instruments? It appears the effects can only be coupled with a mic.
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@DONTSHOOTE3B
an idea:
1. record a gb instrument track
2. merge the gb instrument track
3. open a new inter app audio apps track
4. choose the effect you want
5. go to the merged track, et voila ..... you can tweak the merged instrument track with that effect....if you are done with tweaking: merge it again to keep the effect in that track.
@Marcel Thanks for the i idea, bu I'm unable to get step 5 to work. the new effect track is having zero impact on the orignal merged track. How are you routing the track to the effected track?
hmm...you're right....didn't test it before...indeed no impact. btw no need to add the extra fake track, you just can add the effect from within the merged track (its in the menu you get when pressing the plug on top left of screen)... but if there is no impact.....
I dont have the time now to figure it out....hmm...a pity it doesnt work...sorry I dont have the solution now.
The only thing I can think of now isn't great cause you cant hear the multitracks (or with a sync issue) and you need another Daw which you can set in the input slot of AB, and I even dont know if it will work.. cause no time to test it....its as follows: set the track you want to add the effect to in solo mode, export it as a song, import it in another daw, set it as input in AB, set GB in the output slot with the effect in it....or put the effect in the effect slot of AB.
@Marcel haha! Sounds like I'd be better off just grabbing a different DAW. Thanks for the thoughts
Ha...indeed...for this issue perhaps...GB does have its limitations, but I think its a great app anyway.
You could solo the track you want to add fx. Export the song and open in e.g AudioShare. Set AS as input->fx->GarageBand and record with the fx.
I thought GB supported AUv3 fx? Is it only while recording?
Well indeed, just tested it again, the effect you add after recording has no effect. So it has only effect before and while you record. The only way to do it after recording seems with the help of other apps.
That's a shame.
Just get Auria Pro and be happy, @DONTSHOOTE3B
@theconnactic super tempted. For now, @Jakersjaw fix will suffice.
are the fx not there if you mix down your song?
The effects of course are in the mix down if you have recorded with effects. And even before mix down. The point is that when you want to add an effect AFTER you recorded something, the effect has no effect.
Edit : I add:
But if you mean: workflow is: add an effect (after you recording something) > mix the song down > is the effect in the song?
Haven't tested that because:
1. it feels like a silly test because you can't adjust the effect, you can't monitor what the effect does, so the workflow is no good, you can't hear what you are doing.
2. it just feels like a silly test because i am almost sure it is not there cause you didn't hear the effect having an effect.
I will not test this cause of point 1.
Preach.
GB isnt a bad way to get into recording at all. Just after a certain threshold it's limitations get really apparent. I appreciate some of the Logic influences but to me GB was never DAW "enough" if you get me. Yeah it records multiple tracks, editing, mixes, etc but if recording is something you're really into and want to do into the future, getting a DAW that performs like a pro setup DAW is key.
Auria, Cubase and a few others on iOS are very close in operation & layout to ProTools, Logic, Reaper, etc., any DAW you'd find on a computer in a project studio or commercial studio. Working in that 'realm' of DAW on iOS makes it easier to adapt to using them elsewhere.
To me it's like this: you could still cut a song direct to vinyl using a cutting lathe but would you really want to if you could use a full featured DAW? Not saying GB is a wax & cylinder job, just saying it has its limits.
Black Friday is next week and maybe a deal will pop up on one of the DAWs.
I think this is very fair comment, but there are a number of us who probably/maybe might have done better or been more productive at simple song-writing if we'd stayed with GB or, in my case, Beathawk for the whole race. I have learned a lot, but not mastered much (especially mastered
) with the more advanced kit, when really my interest or abilities, such as they are, might have achieved more sticking to machines with less whistles...OR I might have just spent a couple of hours in one of those going-round-in-circles-trying-to-make-things-work-loops that I'll get over by tomorrow...
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LOL. Johnny I think you're too hard on yourself but I get what you're saying totally. I say it here a lot about my beginnings & fondness for old Tascam PortaStudios (which were as simple as simple gets in recording). The iOS recording movement, while at the top tier is just as intricate as any recording facility, is still simple enough to just jump into and has reminded me of those PortaStudio days.
That old forum logic of YMMV definitely applies here. If you're making more MIDI based EDM or groove type stuff, the all in ones like Beathawk, iMaschine 2 and Beatmaker are awesome. For me, making full rock/pop songs with acoustic & electric guitars, electric bass, vocals, etc. a full on DAW is really beneficial.
DONTSHOOTE3B's situation was learning that Garage Band does not have the full capabilities for what he wanted to do with the AUFX stuff. Sometimes, as Sgt. Pepper is always referenced to, limitations can be a good thing, opening you up to creative ways of doing something. For me, with a pretty close version of ProTools on a tablet in Auria Pro going for less than the price of a guitar pedal, I will accept the learning curve.
But don't get me wrong, I have the Auria Pro manual saved in iBooks and am constantly going back to it during sessions...Auria has so much to offer beyond it's standard recording functions you can easily forget them all, especially the MIDI stuff. That's the main question: whether you want to deal with all the complexities or stick to a leaner way of working.
I completely hear you (especially after a good night's sleep
). I LOVE Auria. It is the Meccano kit for middle-aged men (and others). But I'm always aware that I'm not making anything like the most of it. Bit by bit....
Well, the Meccano blast made me guffaw..man, it's the truth. Last time we went to London this little odds & ends shop in Sheperd's Bush had a caboose looking thing with the Meccano branding. It was Erector Set, Legos for its time for sure.
I dreamed from 6 years old when I first got bit by music that I wanted to play so bad & later found the ephemera, technology and instruments so interesting and addictive...mixes of GAS & tech nerdom.
But at this time holding a slate with a recording facility as deep as an 1990's-2000's pro studio NEVER gets taken for granted. I am always amazed how cool and far out the tech is today.