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That depends on your goals and ambitions. It will serve all your basic recording, mixing and production needs, and many, many bands and solo musicians are taking their first steps with home recording using Garage Band, or similar software packages on other platforms.
Basic operation:
I spent many hours playing with a Fostex 4-track tape recorder when I was ...
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I would move the tracks to something like Audacity and do the L/R channel editing there. Audacity lets you split a stereo track and make a copy of L to R and so on..
Ofcourse if you want to stick to Garageband, there is a long winded way.
Pan it hard left.
Export as mono.
Re-import as mono..
I can't think of any quick and easy method.
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There is of course no set way of doing this, but a typical workflow would be :
-sort out the Click Track and tempo changes
-record scratch guitars(or whatever instrument needs to be present as a guide)
-record Drums
-delete scratch tracks, do all drum editing and comping
-record next most important rhythm instrument, bass, guitar or whatever.
-record ...
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Garageband has to do a fair bit of processing in order to display the waveform. In order to minimise wasted time for the performers, it allows you to hear this waveform straight away, while doing the waveform processing in the background.
So really, you are seeing symptoms of the app developers trying to be helpful by letting you hear the music before it is ...
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Absolutely. I use it on my laptop, when I'm traveling and away from my desktop and Logic Pro rig, and it's outstanding.
There are track limits, but they're generous and you can do things like bounce submixes to new projects to get around them. There's less features than Logic but honestly, most people getting started with computer-based recording and trying ...
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You may want to try a different DAW to manage this project.
I don't know about other DAWs, but Reaper uses non-destructive editing for the audio files. This means that no matter how many changes you make to the audio, the original files never change. You will only need to save a single copy of the original audio files and version the project file (which ...
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Many plugins have the ability to adjust the level either before or after the effects processing. You could throw one of these plugins on the track and boost the level without adding any other processing.
The newer versions of Garage Band have the ability to normalize tracks (although it might only be available as an export option). You could solo the ...
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You can add a little bit of compression, boosting the gain that way.
Another option is to open the audio file in a waveform editor like Peak and normalize the audio or increase the gain that way. (Right-click on the Garageband file in the Finder and navigate to the audio file.) This is an operation you won't be able to undo, so I'd back up that file first. ...
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Garageband should be able to handle much more than this in terms of length. Multiple tracks are going to stress out your Mac far more than long songs will. However, there are some things you can do to make it easier on your Mac:
Software instruments
These are tracks that show up as MIDI bar charts and not audio waveforms. Think of MIDI as analogous to ...
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There are a few ways to achieve this. I'm going to describe the way I use, and find easiest to describe.
Find the tune you want in iTunes. Right click, and choose "show in Finder".
A Finder window will pop up, with the MP3 (etc) file for your song highlighted.
Drag that file to the tracks window of Garageband.
Once it's in, you can trim off the parts you ...
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Great question. I offer custom drum tracks via online collaboration - so this question comes up a lot. The absolute best order (in my opinion) is to lay down scratch tracks first and foremost to get a feel of where the song is headed. Then record the drum tracks TO the scratch. From there, you can record your finals to the drum tracks.
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Earphones for everyone is generally a good idea anyway. They generally need to hear themselves much more than others, while the volume of the instrument as you need it for recording might not be what they need to hear themselves.
Rock drums are really loud, so usually the drummer needs sound separation. You might get away with having just movable absorbing ...
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While you can't export directly to Audacity, you can get pretty close using a workaround. The secret is to freeze all of your tracks using Garageband's temporary-rendering feature. Internally, this means that all of your tracks are being rendered, individually, as AIFF files.
You can get to these files by ctrl+clicking the .band file and choosing "View ...
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If you want your project to be editable, you must upload all of it. The easiest way to do this is throw it in a ZIP file. Everyone can open a ZIP file, and then it is just one thing to upload. Instructions for Windows/OSX.
When you're done and have bounced everything down to stereo, encode it to MP3 as NReilingh suggested. MP3 is lossy compression, and ...
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Export your project to an mp3 file (256kbps should do it for the stereo bit rate) and upload it to your website's server.
If this question is specific to the GarageBand app on the iPad, I believe the course of action would be to export a full-quality mix to iTunes and sync that back to your computer. You should then be able to find the track in iTunes, set ...
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For this situation I would recommend Audacity. This is how you can do it in Garage Band. To splice, simply double click on the track you want to splice, go to the slider that popped up and go to the bottom section of the track. Here you can select, select what you want to delete and ether 1, double click to make it into a separate clip or 2, press delete. To ...
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The one thing Garageband gives you in your use case is:
Ease of use!
It is very user friendly for all your basic tasks, and offers you some nice additional features, like backing and drums.
Audacity is cross-platform and for the basics is not too difficult to use, but for anything more than the basics can be tricky to configure, and it sounds like you ...
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Although Garageband is definitely good value for it's price if you just want to record something you can just as well use audacity.
Garageband has a large library with sound effects and good sounding instruments like drums, strings,trumpets etc. so it's a good (and cheap) place to start with if you want to compose something more than just your voice and ...
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This will depend a bit on exactly what is in the files. They may be just audio, but they may have midi bits and pieces in there as well.
In your .band file, you should have a media subfolder, and the audio tracks should be in there (as .aiff files if I recall). Any audio app should let you import them and let you save as wav, mp3 or whatever. I'd use ...
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I'm told you can export m4a from Garageband. This should be an ADTS encapsulated AAC stream. You can decode that to PCM (wav files) using FAAD2 and audacity will import that just fine. Its not lossless but 192 kbit/s AAC is good enough for most purposes.
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It can indeed be done. If you have installed the Native Instruments plug-in on your system, you can create a new software track in Garageband, click the little "i" icon in the bottom left corner, chose "edit" in the menu that pops up and then in the drop down box under "Sound Generator" chose you plug-in. All set!
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I believe yes, with limitations. The last time I used Garageband was version 2, and at that time it could host Audio Units (but not VST) plugins. I presume it's the same now.
I don't know which Native Instruments plugins you're thinking of (Native Instruments is a company, not a product) but if any of them are offered in Audio Units format, Garageband ...
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I would first off, not 'share' to itunes or anthing. Just hit share->Export Song to Disk and UNCHECK compress.
Listen to that in your finder and tell us if there's any differences going on in what you hear.
If there is I'm willing to bet that you have all your volume settings at "0". I would recommend turning them all down and redoing all of the levels. ...
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There are loads of free sampled pianos on the web. The University of Iowa had free piano samples already in AIFF format, but their site seems to be unavailable at the moment.
A lot of the other free sampled pianos are in SF2 format, meaning you would have to find a free utility to extract the WAVs, and convert them to AIFF, which may be more laborious than ...
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I'll put a guitar amp in a neighboring room sometimes - some guitar players like to really crank the amp up. You can also get by with stuffing the amp in a closet.
You can position your instruments and microphones so that the microphone's null spot is pointing at other loud instruments. Look up polar the polar pattern of your microphones to see what the ...
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If you have the output Audio file, you can get Audacity, and Effects->Compress it using the compression plugin (included, I believe). It's awesome. You can adjust how loud you want each sound range to be (within reason).
You may need LAME if you have to open MP3s.
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