GarageBand - Let’s Play The Chinese & Japanese Instruments & Percussion

thesoundtestroom

More exploration into the epic 2.3 update

Samu

Nice vid, it's so easy to get lost in time when playing around with GarageBand!
I actually turned on notifications for GarageBand so I'll get a 'pling' when new sound-packs are available

Still hoping Apple will some day add editing of the recorded touch-automation.
(AUv3 automation with editing would be an awesome bonus-feature).

realdavidai

Lovely. I hope to see Instruments from India one day...also Trinidadian Steel Drum

TozBourne

“Let’s play...” yep, that’s what I’ve been doing all weekend with this new stuff, it’s brilliant!

Telstar5

Thanks again, Dougie boy!

thesoundtestroom

I am loving all this new stuff in GB it really is like a one-stop-shop for composing ideas or full blown tracks, and everything seems very intuitive and logical, OK it’s not the be all and end all, far from it, but man it’s good.

And I don’t know about you guys but I always feel pretty safe when I'm using it

RajahP

Wow...

GarageBand is truly amazing..
Can only imaging an instrument sequencer built on the drum sequencer concept, ‘looping note, probability, etc..’

I will pay for updates...

Nice..

receder

Brilliant demo Doug. Really inspired me!

JohnnyGoodyear

That Koto.

JohnnyGoodyear

And I love how into it you get Good measure of any app really...

realdavidai

@thesoundtestroom said:
I am loving all this new stuff in GB it really is like a one-stop-shop for composing ideas or full blown tracks, and everything seems very intuitive and logical, OK it’s not the be all and end all, far from it, but man it’s good.

And I don’t know about you guys but I always feel pretty safe when I'm using it

It’s getting awfully close to perfection for me.

lukesleepwalker

These instruments sound so good and playing them is so smart that we move ever closer to Eno's supposition that judgement increasingly matters more than skill in music creation.

JohnnyGoodyear

@lukesleepwalker said:
These instruments sound so good and playing them is so smart that we move ever closer to Eno's supposition that judgement increasingly matters more than skill in music creation.

Just need to bring your own heartbreak.

lukesleepwalker

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@lukesleepwalker said:
These instruments sound so good and playing them is so smart that we move ever closer to Eno's supposition that judgement increasingly matters more than skill in music creation.

Just need to bring your own heartbreak.

And the willingness to express it.

JohnnyGoodyear

@lukesleepwalker said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@lukesleepwalker said:
These instruments sound so good and playing them is so smart that we move ever closer to Eno's supposition that judgement increasingly matters more than skill in music creation.

Just need to bring your own heartbreak.

And the willingness to express it.

Maybe that's the thing, for some it's more of a need...

[Deleted User]

If they ever remake The Water Margin, Doug, you’ll have to submit a few tunes.

[Deleted User]

@lukesleepwalker said:
These instruments sound so good and playing them is so smart that we move ever closer to Eno's supposition that judgement increasingly matters more than skill in music creation.

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Being part of music that has far more judgement than skill, I’d agree. Trained musicians are always going to be able to hear things and do stuff that mere dabblers can’t. But the swing to that roundabout is creative thought from a different angle. Plenty of room for both.

lukesleepwalker

@Zen210507 said:

@lukesleepwalker said:
These instruments sound so good and playing them is so smart that we move ever closer to Eno's supposition that judgement increasingly matters more than skill in music creation.

>

Being part of music that has far more judgement than skill, I’d agree. Trained musicians are always going to be able to hear things and do stuff that mere dabblers can’t. But the swing to that roundabout is creative thought from a different angle. Plenty of room for both.

As a trained musician I can say that "knowing too much" can be a rut.

[Deleted User]

@lukesleepwalker said:
As a trained musician I can say that "knowing too much" can be a rut.

Yeah. Sometimes, not knowing what convention says won’t work, produces something that does.

I see a great future, where trained musicians can make use of the resource that dabbler minds and efforts can create, while the dabblers can benefit from the superior real world skills of the musician.

realdavidai

I’m a somewhat trained musician (jazz keyboards) and I was hating almost everything I produced until I started using the iPad onscreen keyboard. This limitation keeps me from overplaying. It’s a godsend!

teleb

@realdavidai said:
I’m a somewhat trained musician (jazz keyboards) and I was hating almost everything I produced until I started using the iPad onscreen keyboard. This limitation keeps me from overplaying. It’s a godsend!

Love your statement.
Overplaying, cool word.

lukesleepwalker

@Zen210507 said:

@lukesleepwalker said:
As a trained musician I can say that "knowing too much" can be a rut.

Yeah. Sometimes, not knowing what convention says won’t work, produces something that does.

I see a great future, where trained musicians can make use of the resource that dabbler minds and efforts can create, while the dabblers can benefit from the superior real world skills of the musician.

Yes, agree!

@realdavidai said:
I’m a somewhat trained musician (jazz keyboards) and I was hating almost everything I produced until I started using the iPad onscreen keyboard. This limitation keeps me from overplaying. It’s a godsend!

Love this. I have found the same!