GarageBand 2 | Software Instruments
Added 2021-05-03 14:55:48 +0000 UTCNew here? Wondering where to start? Click here
Hi Everyone,
In the first GarageBand lesson, we talked about audio recording. In this lesson, we're talking about MIDI. This lesson covers the basics of how to record, edit, and manipulate MIDI data and make it sound like actual music.
This is the stuff that makes a recording session a lot of fun and lets you apply your music theory knowledge to a whole host of instruments. We didn't fully explore all the possible instruments available to you with GarageBand, but they are all in the library on the left side of the screen.
Share your tinkering and noodling on the community forum. Remember, you don't need to share a song or something amazing, just show that you can record some drums, chords and some vaguely melodic stuff on top. Just get the hang of using MIDI and have fun.
Attached below are some PDFs. The first is the MIDI Drum layout, showing all the pieces of the drum kit and where to find them on the keyboard. The second PDF is a layout of all the windows related to MIDI as well as a few more shortcuts to learn.
Other lessons in this series:
GarageBand 1 | Getting Started
GarageBand 2 | Software Instruments (current lesson)
GarageBand 3 | Audio Interface & Setting Gain
GarageBand 4 | Recording Process & Basic Mixing
GarageBand 5 | Adding Effects and Final Mixing
Check out the Lesson Archive for more Songwriting lessons
Comments
I found it a little bit ago. Seems every time I tried to log in, I had to change my PW. Hopefully I can log in in from now on. When I’m going back and forth between my Mac and iPhone is when I have problems. Do you want me to resubmit it to the forum?
Earl Varney
2021-05-14 00:01:43 +0000 UTCHi Earl - Are you on the community forum? I'm excited to hear what you came up with but I created the community forum because people can't upload mp3's directly to Patreon. https://www.scottpauljohnson.com/where-to-start scroll to the bottom for help!
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-05-13 23:52:28 +0000 UTCIt's taken me awhile to get this far. I had to figure out me now Korg MPK mini, the accompanying software and integrate it with Garage Band. The above is a combo of lessons 1 & 2.
Earl Varney
2021-05-13 20:44:53 +0000 UTC
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