GarageBand and Logic Pro Update

realdavidai

@Matt_Fletcher_2000 said:
I've been quite enjoying Alchemy inside GarageBand.

This is how I think I'm going to use it:

• on my new iPhone6sPlus
• It's easy enough to lay down 64 bars or more (maybe even a whole song length) of chord or arp midi
• pick a nice Alchemy patch that has some decent scope for automating over 64+ bars
• get the notes how you want them (using the loop function on the clip if necessary)
• then make sure 'merge recordings' is on
• then play the whole track through and modulate various parameters of the synth patch
• You can have few passes doing this e.g. Once with cutoff, another pass tweaking something else etc

So you now have a good long evolving pad or arp single track just how you want it. And you can easily come back and change the notes if needed.

Export this audio (including the tail) to audioshare and then (come feb), hopefully on into Gadget to use in a full track.

Nice. And all in my pocket.

This sounds cool, do you do YouTube demos?

JohnnyGoodyear

@Matt_Fletcher_2000 said:
I've been quite enjoying Alchemy inside GarageBand.

This is how I think I'm going to use it:

• on my new iPhone6sPlus
• It's easy enough to lay down 64 bars or more (maybe even a whole song length) of chord or arp midi
• pick a nice Alchemy patch that has some decent scope for automating over 64+ bars
• get the notes how you want them (using the loop function on the clip if necessary)
• then make sure 'merge recordings' is on
• then play the whole track through and modulate various parameters of the synth patch
• You can have few passes doing this e.g. Once with cutoff, another pass tweaking something else etc

So you now have a good long evolving pad or arp single track just how you want it. And you can easily come back and change the notes if needed.

Export this audio (including the tail) to audioshare and then (come feb), hopefully on into Gadget to use in a full track.

Nice. And all in my pocket.

Had a feeling this might be a Gadget factory for you now...

Hmtx

Just noting that the 2.2.1 update seems to get rid of the bug that created extra blank takes in a multi-take recording.

Matt_Fletcher_2000

@realdavidai said:

@Matt_Fletcher_2000 said:
I've been quite enjoying Alchemy inside GarageBand.

This is how I think I'm going to use it:

• on my new iPhone6sPlus
• It's easy enough to lay down 64 bars or more (maybe even a whole song length) of chord or arp midi
• pick a nice Alchemy patch that has some decent scope for automating over 64+ bars
• get the notes how you want them (using the loop function on the clip if necessary)
• then make sure 'merge recordings' is on
• then play the whole track through and modulate various parameters of the synth patch
• You can have few passes doing this e.g. Once with cutoff, another pass tweaking something else etc

So you now have a good long evolving pad or arp single track just how you want it. And you can easily come back and change the notes if needed.

Export this audio (including the tail) to audioshare and then (come feb), hopefully on into Gadget to use in a full track.

Nice. And all in my pocket.

This sounds cool, do you do YouTube demos?

If only I had the time

Matt_Fletcher_2000

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@Matt_Fletcher_2000 said:
I've been quite enjoying Alchemy inside GarageBand.

This is how I think I'm going to use it:

• on my new iPhone6sPlus
• It's easy enough to lay down 64 bars or more (maybe even a whole song length) of chord or arp midi
• pick a nice Alchemy patch that has some decent scope for automating over 64+ bars
• get the notes how you want them (using the loop function on the clip if necessary)
• then make sure 'merge recordings' is on
• then play the whole track through and modulate various parameters of the synth patch
• You can have few passes doing this e.g. Once with cutoff, another pass tweaking something else etc

So you now have a good long evolving pad or arp single track just how you want it. And you can easily come back and change the notes if needed.

Export this audio (including the tail) to audioshare and then (come feb), hopefully on into Gadget to use in a full track.

Nice. And all in my pocket.

Had a feeling this might be a Gadget factory for you now...

Well really I'm waiting for Feb for that to be possible. But soon........

With some patch design work I think iWAVESTATION should be able to produce similar interesting/complex results to Alchemy. But with Alchemy it's nice because it's all just there at your finger tips and very modulatable.

realdavidai

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Enkerli

@Dubbylabby said:

@u0421793 said:
I was just using GarageBand a few days ago thinking that it'd be wonderful if it had all the capabilities of the Yamaha QY series (and Mobile Music Sequencer) such as the sequenceable transposition of chords and keys and chord track features. Yes, even fingered chord and auto-accompaniment (y'know, to widen the appeal of music making on iOS, naturally).

If just Apple bring Mainstage to iOS...

Y’know, it may not be such a bad idea… Screen realestate wouldn’t be too much of an issue and an iPad Pro’s CPU may provide more processing power than the Intel chip meeting the minimum requirements for MainStage. My guess is that RAM would be the main issue, with storage as a close second.
Something they could possibly do is release some of these synths as separate apps. We got a taste of Alchemy in the form of a rompler for GarageBand. This can generate some appetite for a more complete version (including then “Advanced” settings).