How Can I record a song on GarageBand with my voice but beat for another song playing in back?
I don't know GB but I know recording. You will need to have a file of just the beat. Where are you getting it from? There are sample CDs with beats you can buy or download and there are software drum machines that you can get online. For free if you are clever and lucky. If it's on an artist's album then you are screwed. Unless they have released a sample CD with the beat you want all by itself. Unlikely. If there is a section of that artist's song where there is JUST the beat, you could record a 1-4 bar sample of it and put it on a loop. It's easy, but only if you know what you're doing. It has to be cut right on the bar line (1st beat) or it won't loop right. You need to know its temp to set up your project to loop at the same speed as the beat itself. Ableton Live does it for you. It's the best for sample based music and looping. So whatever you use for a beat will be on it's own track. You are now free to rap or freestyle all you want to on whatever other track you choose. You should be able to insert samples for bass and other parts on separate tracks. (Or record your own if you have a controller keyboard and know how). Each part will be on it's own track. Now you can mix them, blend them and get the volume of each just right. Use whatever effects you want and bump the finished song down to a 2 track file. (aif, wav or Mp3.) There are other things you need to do if you want it to sound good on a CD or Mp3 player. Mastering boosts the levels and smooths out the frequencies to make your track sound good in the real world, boomboxes, home stereos, whatever... Check out the "Home Recording Tips" on my Myspace blog for more information,
How do you make your own songs on GarageBand?
i never created any songs on garageband on my mac, but when i went onto garageband and when to "garageband hot tips", they took me to the apple site, saying, "GarageBand 3 features Musical Typing, which allows you to play any software instrument using your Mac keyboard. From the Window menu, choose Musical Typing to open its window, which displays which Mac keyboard keys correspond with what musical keyboard keys. You can audition instruments and even record performances right on your computer keyboard. Play melody lines or even chords. Use the Z and X keys to move down and up octaves to access all registers of your chosen instrument." hope that helps a little.. i know that you can do other things than just piano. i would just play around with it a bit...
Remove Amp Buzz from Garageband Recording?
Well, first off, I'd fix it by figuring out what's making the buzzing noise and fixing that! It could easily be a wiring issue, ie it needs proper grounding or shielding... or you could simply be playing too close to the computer and need to back up a little bit. The alternative EQ approach is to zoom in on a section of silence on the guitar track, loop it, and start cutting frequencies until you can get rid of as much of that buzz as possible and apply the same EQ settings to the whole track. You'll definitely have to go by ear on this one.... a good place to start is looking at frequencies above 3 khz though. The electric guitar's useful upper frequency range ends around 10 khz, but when you add gain you'll usually be heavily filtering much of the frequencies above 3-6khz out. I would suggest starting with two low-pass filters... one at 6 khz and one at 8 khz. This provides a sharp drop-off, which is a vague approximation of how a speaker rolls off the high end. It is very likely that these are too high - I would then keep lowering them until it sounds better. I could easily see a LP at 4 khz and one at 6 khz, for instance. The buzz might be some kind of a ground loop or power hum. If that's it, put a notch filter (high Q, ie very narrow) at 60 hz if you live in the US or 50 hz if you live in the EU, that might help. A similar idea with that is to put a notch filter in and sweep it up and down to see if you can pinpoint where that buzz is coming from... if you can find it in a specific set of frequencies, then EQ those out and you'll be in a much better place! ... As far as the pick noise... well, that's a toughie. A large part of that is technique and probably choosing a lighter pick, or a type of pick that won't give you that clicky sound on the strings. That said, your "attack" frequencies are between 1.5 and 3.5 khz, this is the area where you will most likely hear the bulk of that "click" sound. Try lowering a few db in this area and see what happens. Keep in mind that this can reduce the intensity of your guitar track, though, and push the instrument more to the background! That's why I suggest fixing it outside of the mix.... Hmmm. I think another technique might be setting a compressor juuuuust riiiight.... but I dunno, I'd start with EQ and see what you get there. Saul
What are some tips on making a nice-sounding song on GarageBand? I know most of the basics but I’d like to improve my skills.
One thing I’ve found very useful is to start out thinking of the song as an arrangement. Make sure you know exactly what key and tempo the song is in. Use the arrangement track to lay out all the bars for the intro, choruses, verses, etc. and label each section.Taking the time to lay out the arrangement makes it much easier to always know where you are in the overall song structure, so you hit the section transitions right on the beat, and you can find your place when you are adding tracks, overdubbing or punching something in.If you are like me and don’t know how to play drums, laying out the arrangemwnt helps GarageBand’s robot drummers to lay down a halfway-decent drum track. (The robot drumming is never great no matter what you do.)
Recording a rap song?
do not get acid pro...its horrible. Get a good a$s mic..... Get Logic....Cubase....Pro Tools Le 8 or HD...if you can afford it. Garage band can edit....so can fruity loops but i hate em. If your looking for stuff to download then get fruity loops instead of acid pro... Acid pro is easier but it sucks. Then get a mixer....learn it...And your on your way. Mic Mixer Cubase......thats a good start. But if you get pro tools le 8 you need a Mbox 2....read up on it my dude.
Why did my garage band recordings turn grey and I cant hear them?
either you've muted them or you've soloed something else. look on the track header on the left hand side of the grey ones, there is a little icon that looks a bit like a loudspeaker, if this is blue then you have muted that track. look on any tracks you can hear, on their track header, look for an icon that looks like headphones, if that icon is yellow, then they are soloed. whichever is the circumstance, make sure those headphone and loudspeaker icons are grey rather than blue/yellow by clicking on them. now you should be able to hear all you want. this is just a toggle so you can listen to the tracks you want to work on and get rid of tracks that you don't need to hear until later.
What are some tips for learning GarageBand?
I got started by reading the Help section and the clicking on the "?" button in the app to be able to mouse over different controls and see what they did.I bought a USB interface box, installed the software for it, and connected my USB keyboard and just started playing around with different instruments. (You can use the computer keyboard to play notes but that is every limited and awkward.)The layout is fairly intuitive, but it does look like a lot at first. Under "File" select "new project," select software project. Use "Help" and find a drum loop to drag into the project, select an instrument to play, then you can start playing along with the drums. You will need to refer back to "Help" a lot at first.There is way too much to explain about it here. I learned the controls and just began to experiment.
Why are my GarageBand songs so quiet?
Never mind,I actually figured it out after some Google detective work. The answer is so ridiculously simple and so ridiculously stupid! In GarageBand>preferences there's a box automatically checked “on” that says “export at maximum loudness”. Check this box “off” and it will then export the song at a much louder(normal)volume! It's like ‘opposite world’. Anyway….i then had to lower the ‘master track’volumes of each song to avoid excess distortion but now I'm good to go!
My song wont show up on garage band?
You can just list all of your itunes songs on garage band. A playlist doesn't always mean something to any program except for your itunes and ipod and such. You need to look for the song within the artist's other songs, or, if that is the only song by a person you have, then it will be by itself. Within the media browser on garage band, just leave the cursor on itunes, the original folder, and search for the file that way. Hope this helps. I always find it a good idea to copy a song from itunes to my desktop in itunes before i screw around with it in garage band, that way nothing can get lost. I lost a song from the itunes file once by trying to drag it to the work area in garage band....