[macvoiceover] Re: GarageBand and the cycle region
- From: Keith Reedy <g3tiger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 01:02:37 -0400
Hi Bryan,
Thanks for this, I certainly will put it in to the guide. I am already working
on revision 01, at least in my head.
I am not much of a loop user, but, I have spent a little time with them over
the last few days. I have been impressed with the editing, I was able to
modify a loop and take out something out of the middle of the loop that didn't
work for me.
We have recorded 39 songs over 4 CDs in the last 19 months and I have only used
loops once and that was a drum loop.
I don't know about the new amps, frankly I have not taken a look at more than
the basic stuff.
I think GarageBand was always meant to be an entry level program, but, as such
quite a powerful one and it works for us quite well here in the studio.
I do hope to see Express, or, Logic Pro come up to speed in the near term. I
really like the Apple Synths and loops, and the EQ bace will be great when we
can get to it.
Keith Reedy
On Nov 2, 2010, at 12:34 AM, Bryan Smart wrote:
> I figured out how this works today. Keith, you might want to add this to your
> guide.
>
> Anyway, if you turn on cycle, then the cycle region will appear as a layout
> item, just like the other regions. However, it isn't located with the other
> regions. In the timeline, interact with the ruler at the top. If cycle is on,
> besides the play head and song length indicators, there will also be a region
> layout item representing the cycle region. You can move and size it just like
> other regions. In that way, it is possible to, for example, move it to bar 9,
> expand it to 16 bars, and be able to overdub in to a 16 bar loop when you
> press record.
>
> This is pretty cool. We can now record in to exact locations of the song.
>
> You can also select an existing region's time this way, and overdub
> additional takes in to it. It isn't MIDI event editing, but, together with
> the region editing approaches, is enough to handle essential editing tasks.
>
> I made a song with GB today. Not a put loops together thing, but a sequenced
> job. Was actually pretty cool that I could use GB like a sequencer.
>
> Of course, after several demo projects, I'm sad to say that I'm already
> starting to be annoyed with the limitations. That's sad, right? I think GB is
> a great scratch pad and small scale editing tool, but you can't dream big
> with it. I was trying to mix. I knew that I only had two system buses for
> shared effects. I didn't realized that they were fixed on reverb and echo,
> though. Reverb, yeh, but the second one should be reassignable to chorus,
> flanger, or something. And the echo is a simple one line stereo echo. You
> can't do ping pong or independent left/right lines with it. Once I turned up
> the global reverb, I also noticed how metallic it sounds. Logic has so much
> better, which is the point, I guess. *shrug* I discovered that we can only
> select EQ presets, not setup the EQ bands ourselves (though I did get this
> working on my control surface in a hackish sort of way that I can't imagine
> doing regularly).
>
> Also, I thought that there were new amp models in GB6, but, in the ampsim
> effects plug in, I just see the ones that have been their forever. Are they
> in a separate plug?
>
> I really hope that Apple is cooking up something similar for Logic.
>
> Bryan
>
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