Cutting and editing music in Garageband is as simple as using the (Command + T) option on your keyboard.

For instance, you line up the “Ruler,” to the point you want to isolate, and then use the (Command + T) function. You can do this in two separate areas of your workspace, in the “Piano Roll Grid,” or in the regular workspace.

One can also edit the music using the Marquee line within the “Piano Roll Grid.” For example, when you zoom in on the audio file, you can highlight the part of it you want to eliminate down to the tiniest detail.

The option to turn note names on or off is a little hidden. You’ll need to go to your overall iPad Settings and scroll down until you can see the GarageBand app in the list on the left. Tap on the GarageBand icon to see the settings for that app and then turn on Keyboard Note Labels. Use the Notepad to write chords, lyrics and notes. Q: Bars – how do I extend a project to more than 8 bars? A: Tap the “+” icon in the top right and adjust the number of bars to the desired amount V: How to add more than 8 bars in GarageBand iOS. Q: Compatibility – what iPads and iPhones are compativle with GarageBand iOS? At the top of the screen, go the the gear-clogg looking thing (settings) then go to the second tab, and it'll say Automatic Off or On, Turn it to On and then it will add more bars the longer you play 🙂 Or turn it off and select up to 320 bars 🙂.

You simply highlight it by hovering the ‘+’ sign over the Audio Region, clicking and dragging over the part you want to delete and then hit the “delete” button your keyboard. This comes in handy for audio rather than MIDI recordings.

However, you have to make sure that you’re isolating just one track, whether it be a sample, an audio recording, or a software instrument track, etc. You can’t cut and edit more than one piece of music at once. It has to be just one.

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How To Undo the Previous Command (Command + Z)

In case you make a mistake, you can always hit the (Command + Z) function to go back to where you were before.

As I’ve explained in my 12 things you should know about Garageband article, one of the great things about Garageband is that all of the commands used for day-to-day use on the computer are transferable to the software. It’s all fairly intuitive.

Many of the commands that you’ve grown accustomed to as a Mac user are all the same functions for Garageband.

Use Melodyne 5 As An Editing Tool for Vocals and Instruments

My comprehensive tutorial on Melodyne 5 explains everything this amazing plug-in can do. Celemony’s Melodyne 5, from Plugin Boutique, is an editing tool that allows you to spot correct vocal recording errors and other mistakes that are made during the recording process.

You can use this to do things that you would never be able to do with Garageband’s default pitch correction tool, includng spot-correcting errors, converting tracks to MIDI, and the list goes on and on.

How To Zoom In And Out (Command + Left and Right Arrow Key)

You can zoom in and out on your MIDI region to see the audio file in more detail by separating your fingers or moving them closer together.

This is especially useful for when you’re trying to edit minute details, that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to see and thus, isolate.

You can also zoom in and out through the (Command – Left or Right arrow key).

Merging Tracks Together (Command + J)

Another incredibly useful editing tool in Garageband is the (Command + J) function, which allows the user to essentially combine or merge the tracks together.

This stops the user from having to copy and paste every little individual track. Instead, one can just merge all of the music together as one track, and then put it on a loop.

To do this, just select the two or more regions you want to combine and hit the (Command + J) function and it will all come together.

It’s a great way of saving time and energy during the editing process.

Using The Cycle Area For Editing

The cycle area on top of the workspace in Garageband is used for repeating the same bar of a recording over and over again. There are a few purposes for this, including practicing a part just before recording, multiple takes, and editing.

For instance, a user can loop the same part repeatedly to judge whether the proper changes have been made during editing.

In other words, if you’ve recorded vocals (using my guide), and forgot the lyrics during one part and said “um,” or something like that, you can loop the same part over and over again, and figure out what needs to be eliminated down to the last millisecond, without having to press “Play” repeatedly.

You know that Cycle Mode is on when it’s displayed as a yellow trip in the top portion of the ruler. When it’s turned off, it’s no longer yellow.

There are two ways of turning it on and off:

You can press the Cycle button within the control bar, or simply press ‘C’ on your keyboard.

Changing at what point Cycle Mode starts and stops:

Select the top part of the ruler, then drag your cursor to the desired starting and stopping part of the recording.

How to Edit Using The Re-Size Pointer (Trimming)

Another way of editing the music is through the “Resize Pointer,” which is at the end of every piece of the “event,” as Garageband’s “Quick Help” section calls it.

Take the cursor and grab your recording, moving it from side to side, left to right. Using the “Snap To Grid” setting/function allows for the music to literally “snap” back to the line, and thus, stays more in time.

Snap to Grid Function (Command + G)

It’s a lot easier to edit music in Garageband when you have this option selected within the “Edit” menu on the toolbar on top. You can turn this function on and off, by hitting the (Command + G) function.

Essentially, as I mentioned above, what this does is it literally “snaps” the music right back to the lines on the grid, that way whenever you edit a piece of music, it falls back exactly on the beat.

If you want, you can turn this function off and see how difficult it is to edit music in Garageband. It becomes super annoying, however, there are moments where it’s worth your while to turn it off.

How To Copy and Paste in Garageband (Command + C and Command + V)

Once you’ve isolated the part you want, hit the (Command + C) function to copy it, and then the (Command + V) function to paste as many copies of it that you want.

Usually, after I’ve created a melody with the Steinway Grand Piano and PianoForAll as an accompaniment (their website), I’ll open up a new “Software Instrument” track, and then copy and paste the music into a different instrument track.

This function allows you to fill out your mix, without coming up with an entirely different musical section. In many cases, you can create an entirely different piece of music, just by copy/pasting it onto a new Instrument track.

Another Way Of Copying And Pasting an Instrument Track

1) Select the Audio file you want to copy.

2) Hold down the “Option” key.

3) Drag the cursor to the left or right

4) While holding down the “Option” key, release the mouse and voila, you’ve just copied and pasted a new MIDI region.

Important Things To Note When Chopping Music

Whenever you want to isolate an audio recording, it’s worth noting that it may be helpful to understand at what beats-per-minute the song is, that way you can trim music at a specific beat.

This is especially important whencreating music with samples which I’ve explained how to do before.

For instance, in a track that I made using the theme song written by Bear McCreary for The Walking Dead, I had to figure out the BPM of the track, that way I could make a different drum track for it.

If you don’t have the proper BPM set up, it’ll be almost impossible to make drums for the song, because nothing will line up, and will sound unsynchronized.

Then, when you try and add other melodies through software instruments and so on, synchronization will be almost impossible. So knowing the Beats Per Minute is essential.

The best way of doing this is just counting along to the song by hitting the table with your hand or bobbing your head along to the beat.

Then, grab a metronome – or use one online, on your phone, or in your DAW – and match the tempo of the song with how fast you were slapping the table.I’d recommend using a real metronome like this one from Amazon because they’re better to use.

There are other ways of figuring out the BPM of a song, of course, but this is how I do it.

(Every person knows how to count the BPM intuitively because whenever you’re jamming along to a song by bobbing your head, you move along to the beat. I’ll write a more in-depth article on this topic later).

Moreover, you can check whether you’ve calculated it properly or not through the way the MIDI Region lines up in your DAW.

*There are other options available online, including songbpm.com, and beatsperminuteonline.com. The latter is superior for calculating the beats-per-minute because it’s manual and can be used for the most obscure of music. However, the former is more for commercially available songs.

Using the Score Editor to Fix Your Music (For People Who Can Read Music)

I imagine this topic will be too much for the average DAW user, because frankly, most music producers, especially nowadays, don’t know how to read music. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s just the way it is.

1) You can access the Score Editor simply by double-clicking on your music or “Midi Region.”

2) And then go down into the Smart Controls, and click on the button that says “Score.”

In this section, you can edit the music through standard notation which I talked more about in my guide on using the score editor. I actually use this every once in a while, because I learned how to read music when I was a kid (although, I’m not nearly as good as I was as a kid).

I usually use it for creating bass lines. Sometimes, it’s harder to hear if your bass line is off-key, so you can either push it up a few octaves so you can hear it or, you can look at the standard notation to figure out if the music is off-key or not.

Naming Your Tracks

If you want to name your track, use the “Secondary Click” function (“right-click,” and that’ll bring up your options where you can see where it says, “Rename Track.”

You can do the very same thing to the actual MIDI Region.

This seems like an obvious one because it is. If you’re going to be making music in a DAW, naming each track region will save you a ton of time, running through each one, trying to figure out which one is the kick and which one is the snare.

Reordering Tracks Through Drag and Drop

By clicking on and dragging the “Track Headers,” Garageband users can actually easily move each software instrument track to and from wherever they want.

For instance, grouping the guitars together, or the kick and bassline. You don’t have to manually move the MIDI Region either; it will move with the Track Header.

Time Quantizing

As you’d know if you’ve read my piano roll guide, rather than dragging and dropping each note so it falls exactly on the grid-lines in the Piano Roll, which is normally what I would do, you can use the Time Quantize function down in the DAW’s Smart Controls.

For instance, if you’ve recorded music with a MIDI Keyboard, and some of the notes are offbeat, using the Time Quantizing function will bring each note to where it needs to be, rather than doing it all manually (more time quantizing tips in my guide).

1) First things first, in the Software Instrument track, choose the option “Region,” rather than “Notes,” in the Smart Controls.

2) In your Smart Controls, underneath the setting, “Time Quantize,” select 1/8 Note, and keep your Quantizing strength at around ’75 to 100.’ This should suck in all of the notes accordingly.

Obviously, there are more Timing settings one can use, but this is as far as I’ve ever used the quantizing function.

Some people argue against the use of Time Quantizing, accusing the practice of robbing the music of its “soul.” The argument goes that there are idiosyncrasies and personality traits eliminated from the music through the quantization practice.

For instance, when playing a guitar riff, if something is slightly off-key or not in proper time, the inaccuracy and “incorrectness” of the note may precisely be, the exact thing that gives it its unique flavor.

The Blues Scale, probably one of the most used scales in guitar playing, is the epitome of this. The Blues Scale isn’t classically “correct,” due to its flattened fifth in relation to the minor pentatonic scale, or flattened third in relation to the major pentatonic.

How to Select and De-Select Options Way Faster

This is another one that I just came across. Rather than manually selecting, say, for example, the “Mute” button on a bunch of tracks, and having to go through each one individually, there is a way of hitting all of them at once.

For instance, if I want to hit the “Mute” button on 10 of my 20 Software Instrument tracks, I’ll hover my cursor over the “Mute” button, and then click the track-pad and hold it while I drag the cursor down the screen. This will hit every “Mute” button on the way down.

It’s the same practice for turning them off.

Conclusion

That’s all for now. I hope this helped you out. Be a trooper and share it on social media.

If you want to create 808s in Garageband iOS, you’re in luck, because Garageband iOS comes with a sampling feature that will allow you to import an 808 bass sound the same way you would with Garageband Mac. While the software does include drum machines like the Modern 808 which imitates the classic TR-808, it only comes with one bass sound.

In order to make 808s in Garageband iOS
1) Choose an 808 file from Cymatics.FM, Soundcloud, or Plugin Boutique
2) Download the sound into your device’s files
3) Open the Sampler in Garageband iOS
4) Hit “Import” in the Sampler to open the 808 file
5) Add EQ, Compression, and Distortion.

The second, but admittedly inferior, way to create 808s in Garageband iOS is to open up a new project, and then select the “Drums” category. Select the Beat Sequencer, and then from the top-left of the Garageband interface, you want to select the drop-down menu to choose the Modern 808, the Roland TR-808, or the 808 Flex.

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For the sake of simplicity, this tutorial is going to explore how to get the 808 sound using the sampler, because this is the best way and it’s going to give you the tools you need to create a hip-hop song that has that coveted 808 sound like what you can get with Initial Audio’s 808 Studio II synth for Garageband macOS (from Plugin Boutique).

How to Create 808s in Garageband iOS Using the Sampler

For this tutorial, you need to know how to use the Sampler in Garageband iOS, which is really quite simple, in fact, I already have a guide on how to use it. However, we’re going to run through how to add an 808 sound using the sampler in Garageband iOS anyway.

The first step is to find the 808 bass that you want.

1) Find An 808 Sound

There are a number of ways you can get your hands on an 808 sound for hip-hop beats, including from YouTubers who offer free drum kits and sounds, however, I’ve included an 808 sound that I got from a Soundcloud user named Ty. It’s a nice-sounding 808 that will certainly do the trick.

To download the 808 sound, you just have to click the link above. It’ll take you to a page where you can demo the sound.

But you want to click on the little download icon that looks like a box with an arrow on it.

Once you’ve downloaded the 808 sound, you want to get it into your Garageband iOS project. If you want to find other 808 sounds, I recommend checking out the blog, Cymatics.fm, which includes a lot of great sounds for music production for free.

Once you’ve downloaded that free 808 sound, you want to open up your Garageband project and then load up the sampler.

2) Open the Sampler

With your Garageband iOS project open, you want to scroll over to the keyboard page. And the third icon from the left, or the second from the right, will say, “Sampler,” and you want to open that one up.

With your Sampler open, click on the option that says, “Import,” to import the sound that you want to use.

Because you’ve downloaded the 808 sound into your iPhone’s files, you want to select the option that says, “Files” at the top center of your interface (use an iPhone ilke this one from Amazon because you want to make sure you actually have enough space).

Type the name of the .wav file into the search bar, and you should be able to find it locally. When you do, you just want to select it, and then hit the little square with an arrow pointed downwards to download it. And that will load up the sound into your Sampler.

At this stage, the Sample should be loaded into the Sampler and you’ll know because it will say so in the Sampler’s interface, including the name of the file and how it looks in audio wave format. It’ll say, “808 (That Bounce).” You can check out the short video below to see how it’s done in real-time:

3) Find the Right Pitch

Now that it’s loaded into the sampler, you’ll notice that it doesn’t make a sound when you hit the “Play” button. That’s because you have to hit the notes of the keyboard in order for it to make a sound. However, it will usually load the octaves, “-3” or “-4” on the Sampler, which is going to be too low and it’ll sound bad.

You want to hit on the little arrows on the bottom left-hand side of the interface in order to switch the octaves that way the Sample plays at a more reasonable pitch. Hit the keys on the Sampler and it’ll start making the coveted 808 sound that we all know and love (you may also need to tune your 808s which I also have a guide on).

4) Hit The Record Button

The sample is loaded into the DAW, and you now have an 808 sound to play around with. Hit the record button and then quickly de-select it again that way you’re given the option to start editing the MIDI file in the workspace. Don’t forget to hit the notes on the keyboard to actually load the notes into the workspace.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll notice that you’ve been brought into the Garageband iOS workspace and you now have a Green audio region that’s ready for editing.

5) Draw in the 808 Sounds

How you add the 808 sounds is up to you. In some cases, I think it’s useful to add the 808 sounds into the piano roll manually, and in other cases, I would just connect a MIDI keyboard (my guide on how to do this here) and do it that way. For the sake of simplicity, we’re just going to draw the notes in manually so you can see what can be done.

How To Get More Bars On Garageband

Right-click or double-click on the MIDI region to bring up the “Edit” option, that way you can draw in your notes how you want.

Slide the “Lock” button over to the right-hand side, that way you can start drawing in the notes with no limitations.

Typically, you’ll want to add notes in the C0 to C1 range, because that it is going to create the bass sound that you want. If you add the notes in any higher, it’s not going to sound like an 808 bass, it’ll sound more like an annoying bell or a synth sound rather than an 808 bass.

Get PianoForAll (from their site) if you want to learn how to use the piano for creating melodies. Once you’ve drawn in the notes by tapping on the screen of your device, you’ll now have notes at your disposal, and you can extend them as long as you want or change the velocity if you want to.

And that’s pretty much it for adding a Boutique 808 to your project in Garageband iOS. It’s really quite simple to get the 808 sounds that you want, however, we are going to explore some additional tactics for spicing them up a little bit.

Adding Effects, Processors, and EQ to Improve the 808 Sound

Hit “Done” on the project, and then go into your Track Settings to add Effects, Processors, and other sounds to get your 808 to sound even better.

For the most part, I find that it’s best to add the following plug-ins, effects, and processors, to an 808 to get it to sound better in Garageband iOS:

1) Visual EQ

The Visual EQ and the Compressor should be loaded onto the track region by default, so no worries there, just go ahead and hit the “On” button to turn it on. Admittedly, the Visual EQ is quite limited in Garageband iOS, because it only has three bands. They are useful enough for making basic adjustments but that’s about it.

Put simply, it does the job, but if you want a better EQ with more bands, you have to download the LRC5 Parametric EQ from the App Store (I’ve talked about it before elsewhere on the site), which has more bands and more capabilities for adjusting the EQ on your tracks, whether it’s your vocals or your Boutique 808 sound.

How you want to EQ, compress, and distort your 808 sound is up to you, but I’ll include some diagrams for you to follow as a guideline. For the EQ setting, try something out like this:

Notice the way that I took out some of those highs, increased the sub-bass frequencies ever-so-gently, and also boosted the 210Hz range by just a bit. This is going to fatten up the 808 sound A LOT.

2) Compressor

One of the drawbacks to using the Processors and Effects in Garageband iOS is the lack of presets, however, Garageband Mac, on the other hand, has plenty of presets, so you can just use Garageband Mac’s presets and then use them for Garageband iOS.

However, not everyone has Garageband Mac, so I’ve included a nice Compressor pre-set here which will fatten up your 808 sound. Try out this preset to see how it makes your 808 sound. I like this one because it makes it much louder and more aggressive.

Type-U Aggressive:

Compressor Threshold: -28.5

Ratio: 2:1:1

Attack: 8.0ms

Gain: 13.0dB

3) Distortion (Optional)

I would say that the distortion is optional because it really depends on what style of hip-hop or pop music you’re producing. If you’re making something in the style of Ghost Mane or another artist like that, you would want to add a lot of distortion to the 808s to make it as gritty as possible.

However, if you’re just trying to throw in some low-end into your hip-hop beat like what can be heard in a song from someone like Post Malone, you won’t want any distortion in your project at all.

Important Things To Note

Changing Velocity and the Length of Notes

Adjusting the length of the MIDI notes when creating your 808s makes a pretty significant difference in how your 808s will actually sound. For instance, if you take a look at the difference between the two notes below, know that the much longer one will typically sound a lot better and a lot fatter.

Server installation report template format. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t use short 808 sounds, especially if you want a triplet or aggressive type sound, in which you would maybe throw in 1-2 short ones before a much longer 808 note.

Using The Octaves to Your Advantage

I, and probably many others, would recommend creating your 808 sounds using the higher octaves first, and then once you’ve created your bass sounds using, say, the C4 or C5 range, you can drag and drop them down to the desired range where they actually sound like 808s now.

The idea behind doing this is to make sure they’re actually on key because the human ear is a lot more capable of detecting higher pitch sounds than they are lower pitch sounds. If you use this trick, I can guarantee that you’ll never run into the problem where your 808s aren’t on key, which is a common problem among music producers and beatmakers.

To do this, you just want to tap on your screen and get the “Select All” prompt to come up.

After you’ve selected all them, pick the note on the far left side and drag it all the way up to the 3rd or 4th octave, that way all of them go with it.

Using the Sound Library to Get More Sounds

In the case that these aren’t enough for you, you can actually go into Garageband’s Sound Library to download additional drum kits in case the stock ones aren’t good enough, or perhaps you want something that’s a little different or specialized to your needs. Jurassic park operation genesis pc download full version free.

Admittedly, the 808 patterns that come with the Beat Sequencer won’t be enough for those of us who want to make custom drum patterns for our beats while using Garageband iOS. What we want, is an actual 808 drum machine in which we can get that coveted bass sound that lies underneath the kick drum in modern hip-hop music.

The Term “808” Refers to the Bass Nowadays

Boutique 808s are a bit confusing, just because the term is used interchangeably with different meanings. For instance, the 808 is based on the Roland TR-808 which was a drum machine in the 1980s that almost no one owns anymore.

The term has evolved to where it is today, with most people referring to 808s as the bass sound that lies underneath the kick. Nissan a14 engine manual. Nowadays, when a hip-hop producer says “808,” they almost always mean the bass sound, rather than the other instruments and sounds that the 808 Drum Machine comes with, such as the shaker, snare, or claps.

Using Other Synth Sounds

Through the use of some of the other synth sounds, particularly the Alchemy synth, it’s possible to create your own bass synthesizer that meets your needs specifically. We’ll explore this in a separate tutorial in the future.

YouTube Video Tutorial

Conclusion

How To Get More Than 8 Bars On Garageband

I hope this tutorial was helpful to you. I would recommend scouring the internet, including other websites, YouTubers, and more, to find additional 808 sounds that you may want to use in your projects. However, the one I’ve included above will likely serve you just fine for now.