Garageband Virtual Drummer Ipad

GarageBand User Guide for iPad

Tags: Garageband, garageband ipad.audio units, garageband iphone, live looper, virtual drummer GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Also released today, GarageBand 2.1 has brought full support for the iPad Pro’s 12.9-inch display, 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s, and two brand new features – Live Loops and Drummer (the latter previously introduced on OS X). Here’s how the company describes Drummer: Drummer makes its iOS debut with nine virtual session drummers, each representing a popular electronic or acoustic style. Garageband 10’s Drummer track is brilliant, isn’t it? It’s the next best thing to actually recording an actual drummer playing on an actual drum kit. I find myself using it much more than any other of Garageband’s features. Turns out you lovely Garageband Guide readers like it just as much as I do! Mute or unmute a drum kit piece. Select a Drummer region. Swipe the Follow switch right to turn it on. Tap the Follow Track pop-up menu that appears under Kick & Snare (Kick, Snare & Claps on electronic drum kits), then choose a track from the list.

You can add a virtual drummer to your song that plays realistic drum grooves. You can choose drummers from different genres, each with its own acoustic, electronic, or percussion drum kit. A GarageBand song can have up to two Drummer tracks.

You can change the drummer’s playing style by choosing different presets, and adjust drum patterns using the Drummer controls—which include an XY pad for adjusting the drummer’s performance, and controls for choosing different performance variations and fill settings. You can also have the Drummer follow the rhythm of another track.

If your song contains multiple Drummer regions, the changes you make using the Drummer controls affect only the currently selected Drummer region.

Choose a drummer

  • Tap the drummer name, tap the style of drum kit you want to use (Acoustic, Electronic, or Percussion), then tap the drummer you want to play.

All Drummer regions in a track use the same drummer.

Choose a drummer preset

  • Tap the current drummer preset above the XY pad, scroll vertically through the preset list, then tap a preset.

    To hear the preset, tap the Play button in the control bar.

Adjust the loudness and complexity of the selected region

In the XY pad, do any of the following:

  • Make the region louder or softer: Drag the yellow puck up or down.

  • Make the region simpler or more complex: Drag the yellow puck left or right.

Mute or unmute a drum kit piece

  • Mute a drum kit piece: Tap a yellow (unmuted) kit piece.

  • Unmute a drum kit piece: Tap a gray (muted) kit piece.

Choose a different pattern for a drum kit piece

Each style of drum kit —acoustic, electronic, or percussion— has different groups of drum kit pieces. The slider to the right of each group controls the pattern for that particular group.

  • Tap a drum kit piece, then drag the slider for that piece left or right.

Change the swing value of the selected region

Adjust the amount of fills

  • Drag the Fills slider right to increase the number of fills, or drag it left to decrease the number of fills.

Have a Drummer region follow the rhythm of another track

You can have the kick and snare portions of an acoustic or electronic Drummer region follow the rhythmic groove of another track. Each Drummer region can follow a different track.

  1. Select a Drummer region.

  2. Swipe the Follow switch right to turn it on.

  3. Tap the Follow Track pop-up menu that appears under Kick & Snare (Kick, Snare & Claps on electronic drum kits), then choose a track from the list.

Edit the selected Drummer region

  • Tap the selected region, then tap one of the editing commands.

For information about the region editing commands, see Edit regions in GarageBand for iPad.

Replace the selected Drummer region

  1. Delete the selected Drummer region: Tap the Trash icon on the right side of the region.

    On an iPad Pro, double-tap the region, then tap Delete.

  2. Create a new Drummer region: Tap an empty part of a Drummer track, then tap Create.

Incredible music.
In the key of easy.

GarageBand is a fully equipped music creation studio inside your Mac — with a complete sound library that includes instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and an incredible selection of session drummers and percussionists. With Touch Bar features for MacBook Pro and an intuitive, modern design, it’s easy to learn, play, record, create and share your hits worldwide. Now you’re ready to make music like a pro.

Start making professional‑sounding music straightaway. Plug in your guitar or mic and choose from a jaw‑dropping array of realistic amps and effects. You can even create astonishingly human‑sounding drum tracks and become inspired by thousands of loops from popular genres like EDM, Hip Hop, Indie and more.

More sounds, more inspiration.
Plug in your USB keyboard and dive into the completely inspiring and expanded Sound Library, featuring electronic‑based music styles like EDM and Hip Hop. The built‑in set of instruments and loops gives you plenty of creative freedom.

Free Virtual Drummer

The Touch Bar takes centre stage.
The Touch Bar on MacBook Pro puts a range of instruments at your fingertips. Use Performance view to turn the Touch Bar into drum pads or a one-octave keyboard for playing and recording.

Plug it in. Tear it up.
Plug in your guitar and choose from a van-load of amps, cabinets and stompboxes.

Design your dream bass rig.
Customise your bass tone just the way you want it. Mix and match vintage or modern amps and speaker cabinets. You can even choose and position different microphones to create your signature sound.

Drumroll please.
GarageBand features Drummer, a virtual session drummer that takes your direction and plays along with your song. Choose from 28 drummers and three percussionists in six genres.

Shape your sound. Quickly and easily.
Whenever you’re using a software instrument, amp or effect, Smart Controls appear with the perfect set of knobs, buttons and sliders. So you can shape your sound quickly with onscreen controls or by using the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro.

Look, Mum — no wires.
You can wirelessly control GarageBand directly from your iPad with the Logic Remote app. Play any software instrument, shape your sound with Smart Controls and even hit Stop, Start and Record from across the room.

Drummer, the virtual session player created using the industry’s top session drummers and recording engineers, features 28 beat‑making drummers and three percussionists. From EDM, Dubstep and Hip Hop to Latin, Metal and Blues, whatever beat your song needs, there’s an incredible selection of musicians to play it.

Each drummer has a signature kit that lets you produce a variety of groove and fill combinations. Use the intuitive controls to enable and disable individual sounds while you create a beat with kick, snare, cymbals and all the cowbell you want. If you need a little inspiration, Drummer Loops gives you a diverse collection of pre-recorded acoustic and electronic loops that can be easily customised and added to your song.

Audition a drummer for a taste of his or her distinct style.

Get creative with 100 EDM- and Hip Hop–inspired synth sounds. Every synth features the Transform Pad Smart Control, so you can morph and tweak sounds to your liking.

Sweeping Arp

Droplets

Bright Punchy Synth

Pumping Synth Waves

Epic Hook Synth

Learn to play Welcome to the school of rock. And blues. And classical.

Get started with a great collection of built‑in lessons for piano and guitar. Or learn some Multi‑Platinum hits from the actual artists who recorded them. You can even get instant feedback on your playing to help hone your skills.

Do all mac computers have garageband. Crank up the bottom end with Bass Amp Designer, or mix and match electric guitar amps, cabinets, and pedals with Amp Designer and Pedalboard. Easily shape the sound of any instrument in the Sound Library with Smart Controls.

Take your skills to the next level. From any level.
Choose from 40 different genre‑based lessons, including classical, blues, rock and pop. Video demos and animated instruments keep things fun and easy to follow.

Teachers with advanced degrees in hit‑making.
Learn your favourite songs on guitar or piano with a little help from the original recording artists themselves. Who better to show you how it’s done?

Instant feedback.
Play along with any lesson, and GarageBand will listen in real time and tell you how you’re doing, note for note. Track your progress, beat your best scores and improve your skills.

Tons of helpful recording and editing features make GarageBand as powerful as it is easy to use. Edit your performances right down to the note and decibel. Fix rhythm issues with a click. Finesse your sound with audio effect plug‑ins. And finish your track like a pro, with effects such as compression and visual EQ.

Go from start to finish. And then some.
Create and mix up to 255 audio tracks. Easily name and reorder your song sections to find the best structure. Then polish it off with all the essentials, including reverb, visual EQ, volume levels and stereo panning.

Take your best take.
Record as many takes as you like. You can even loop a section and play several passes in a row. GarageBand saves them all in a multi‑take region, so it’s easy to pick the winners.

Your timing is perfect. Even when it isn’t.
Played a few notes out of time? Simply use Flex Time to drag them into place. You can also select one track as your Groove Track and make the others fall in line for a super‑tight rhythm.

Polish your performance.
Capture your changes in real time by adjusting any of your software instruments’ Smart Controls while recording a performance. You can also fine‑tune your music later in the Piano Roll Editor.

Touch Bar. A whole track at your fingertips.
The Touch Bar on MacBook Pro lets you quickly move around a project by dragging your finger across a visual overview of the track.

Wherever you are, iCloud makes it easy to work on a GarageBand song. You can add tracks to your GarageBand for Mac song using your iPhone or iPad when you’re on the road. Or when inspiration strikes, you can start sketching a new song idea on your iOS device, then import it to your Mac to take it even further.

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