Your lessons are priceless. I’m constantly shocked at how rude, demanding, and ungrateful some folks are. Fortunately, they are outnumbered by decent, appreciative people. Thank you!
Yup 100%. And don’t worry, I’ve developed skin so thick in the last 6 years that I really don’t lay any attention these days. Like you say, most folks are simply awesome.
You can creat a flange/roll type effect on the snare/toms/symbols by adding additional 3 or 4 additional hits before the beat hit and turning the velocity right down for them in the editor. So your normal snare hit (S) would have lower velocity hits (s) in the before it, like this sssS. You have to zoom right in so you can get the fastest beats per bar for it to work. This creates a stick flange or roll on the drum and sounds a natural way to start fills etc. Also sounds good on the hit hat etc.
I always make sure to turn quantization and velocity sensitivity off on the virtual drums, otherwise quantization is kind of like autocorrect (sometimes it’s useful but usually it gets it wrong) and velocity sensitivity has no idea how hard/fast I’m actually tapping the screen so it always comes out random. Pro tip for virtual drums: Record the low tones and the high tones on separate tracks. With different drum tracks if you want to, but on separate tracks. I had this idea and tested it out recently and wish I’d been doing it before. The high tones are always like three times louder than the low tones so if you play them on separate tracks, you can adjust the volumes separately and it’s a lot faster than doing automation on them. Importing to the Sampler is something I never knew!
Great additional tips here! Yes, separating out the drums can be a great strategy. I’ve used his when using a hybrid drums/drummer method. And glad I could show you something new with the sampler. Stay tuned for my “DIY custom drum kit” video coming soon. 👍
@@PeteJohnsMusic I struggle with not getting a riff or idea down as soon as I think of it and as I recall G B never was so complicated, I could play a guitar riff and it would record it until I stopped, none of this 2,4 & 8 bar having to be put in before you start, I find it stifling in that way so probably will go back to Studiomini XL for its simplicity 😢🙄
I’ve been using a midi drumkit through GarageBand for a while now, but my son (who is the real drummer in the house) wants to upgrade to an acoustic kit. Do you have any experience or tips on how to record a “real” kit with GarageBand on the IPad? I’m using a Steinberg UR22-C if that helps… Love your work as always!
Hmmmm..... I’m. It a drummer so don’t notice much latency? Make sure all apps are closed, maybe use airplane mode, and make sure you’re not using anything Bluetooth.
Hey there. Yes I’d recommend my GarageBand Essentials series - th-cam.com/play/PLc8Xg_23Wa55IUY55fNYokmyKf9GN1EH3.html Or you can check out my GarageBand Beginner’s Guide here - studiolivetoday.com/courses
thanks for the video! for some reason when i go to the acoustic drums it give me "drummers" like kyle and logan. i dont want those, i want to be manual. how do i get rid of those "drummers"?
Any workaround for browsing your midi folder and previewing a midi file? So hard to put loops together if you have no idea what the imported midi sounds like lol
I’m not an expert in GarageBand Mac I’m afraid. Maybe check in with the GarageBand Guide or the GarageBand Users Facebook group. studiolivetoday.com/gbu
What’s up Pete do you know how to make a church choir and add it to your vocals so it can make your voice sound like you are in a church with other people. If you do can you please make a video on how to do it
Hey there my friend. So there are a bunch of effects that hat you can okay with to do this. Nine of them work perfectly but are worth experimenting with. Here’s a video about the vocal transformer that is worth trying out - th-cam.com/video/SVdg4bY7Tgg/w-d-xo.html The best way honestly is to just layer multiple parts and add a healthy dose of reverb to them, as well as panning to the left and right to spread out the sound.
Hi there. There are some percussion drum kits in the “Drums” instrument. You can also use one of the “percussion” drummers in the virtual drummer instrument. I’m making a video about percussion soon so make sure you are subscribed. 👍
Hi Pete. Can I connect my Roland V-drums to an iPad? I would like to play midi notes on my electronic drums and use drum sounds from garageband. Is this possible or do I need mac or pc for this? Fantastic channel. Thanks!
Yep, 100%. You just need a lightning to USB adapter (assuming you’re drums have USB MIDI out - otherwise you’ll need a MIDI to USB adapter too) and then you can use your drums as a MIDI controller. Check out this video where I show the concept on a keyboard. Going to do a video with my electronic drums soon too. th-cam.com/video/RANCX1nnR6g/w-d-xo.html
Hello Pete, I have a quick question and I’m hoping you might be able to help- I am currently working on a project and I’m having issues opening a shared garage band session on my iPad. I download the zipped .band session file from google drive into my GarageBand file transfer folder and it all works fine. But when I open it in garage band I get an error message that says “Can’t open song: the song you are trying to open is damaged or is in a format that GarageBand can’t read”. I’m not sure why it’s doing this as the file doesn’t appear corrupted in any way until I import it into GarageBand. Further information you might need to know is that the session was created on an iPad running IOS14 and my iPad is running IOS12. Any information you may have, would be incredibly helpful and appreciated. Have a wonderful day, Art
Hey Art. I think I answered this on another video? You’ll need to be using the same version to be compatible. Otherwise they can send you individual audio files / th-cam.com/video/VallQgBz24E/w-d-xo.html
Hey there my friend. When you say very low, is that when you are recording the tracks or playing back? And what sort of music are you recording (eg. Virtual instruments, real instruments, vocals etc) Usually you can use the things like compression, volume and clip gain to increase volume but it depends on the actual issue. Let me know some more details and I’ll try to help you out.
Hey there. Perhaps consider importing the exported track back in to GarageBand and mastering it to boost the volume? Here’s a video where o show how to do this. th-cam.com/video/AKPwwGjnN4w/w-d-xo.html
Jobb Make sure the volume on your iPad is up. For some reason the developers made that a thing. Before the big update that wasn’t the case but it is now. I had a similar problem myself and simply raising the volume on the iPad fixed it.
Hey there. Yes, most of the acoustic kits have a rim shot sound. You may need to add it in if you’re using he beat sequencer as it is not in there by default. It is often called “side stick” too. On the manual drums, just tap on the very edge of the snare to get a rim shot instead.
Hey there. Yes, you definitely could get a solid drum recording so try four mics using an interface like this / th-cam.com/video/l3xDq-bnwK8/w-d-xo.html
Hey there. Not really unfortunately. Not using the virtual drummers the beta you can do is have a project full of your custom beats and then copy them across to new projects, or use the merge function to turn them on to drum loops - th-cam.com/video/ZeloBMl4qqU/w-d-xo.html
Hey there. My drums are USB so it’s quite simple. I’ve used this cable for older MIDI gear and found it works well - th-cam.com/video/l-g5UEsn6Ws/w-d-xo.html
Pete Johns I really appreciate your reply, considering how many other people you have connecting with you on TH-cam. Top man. Do you have any idea what part of GarageBand I need to go onto to transfer Vdrums via my Iconnectivity midi cable? 👍
Definitely something I’ve been working on. If you catch my more recent videos will find they are shorter and more focused on the info. Thanks for the feedback. Eve try thing is a work in progress and there’s always more to learn.
Your lessons are priceless. I’m constantly shocked at how rude, demanding, and ungrateful some folks are. Fortunately, they are outnumbered by decent, appreciative people. Thank you!
Yup 100%. And don’t worry, I’ve developed skin so thick in the last 6 years that I really don’t lay any attention these days. Like you say, most folks are simply awesome.
I watch educational videos everyday and believe me when I say you are a great teacher we’ll done‼️
Thanks so much. I hope you get value from the other videos on the channel and consider subscribing if you haven’t already. 👍
Pete you’re great! I’m 82, been recording for a long time, you have taught me much. Thanks!
That’s great Stephen. Thanks so much for taking the time to let me know.
You can creat a flange/roll type effect on the snare/toms/symbols by adding additional 3 or 4 additional hits before the beat hit and turning the velocity right down for them in the editor. So your normal snare hit (S) would have lower velocity hits (s) in the before it, like this sssS. You have to zoom right in so you can get the fastest beats per bar for it to work. This creates a stick flange or roll on the drum and sounds a natural way to start fills etc. Also sounds good on the hit hat etc.
Very cool. 🤘😎
I always make sure to turn quantization and velocity sensitivity off on the virtual drums, otherwise quantization is kind of like autocorrect (sometimes it’s useful but usually it gets it wrong) and velocity sensitivity has no idea how hard/fast I’m actually tapping the screen so it always comes out random.
Pro tip for virtual drums: Record the low tones and the high tones on separate tracks. With different drum tracks if you want to, but on separate tracks. I had this idea and tested it out recently and wish I’d been doing it before. The high tones are always like three times louder than the low tones so if you play them on separate tracks, you can adjust the volumes separately and it’s a lot faster than doing automation on them.
Importing to the Sampler is something I never knew!
Great additional tips here! Yes, separating out the drums can be a great strategy. I’ve used his when using a hybrid drums/drummer method.
And glad I could show you something new with the sampler. Stay tuned for my “DIY custom drum kit” video coming soon. 👍
I do that too :D
Thanks 🙏🏾
Wow, that’s a brilliant idea man. It seems so obvious after the fact, I’ll definitely have to try that thanks 🤘
Thanks so much Pete, I'm rediscovering G B and these vids are saving what hair I have left from being pulled out 🤣🤣🤣
Love it!!
@@PeteJohnsMusic I struggle with not getting a riff or idea down as soon as I think of it and as I recall G B never was so complicated, I could play a guitar riff and it would record it until I stopped, none of this 2,4 & 8 bar having to be put in before you start, I find it stifling in that way so probably will go back to Studiomini XL for its simplicity 😢🙄
Love your humor in your narration...lol
Cheers my friend. Gotta have a bit of fun with this don’t we? Music shouldn’t be too serious in my view.
This is great. Thanks for sharing.
You’re very welcome my friend. I hope you get value from the other videos here on the channel and consider subscribing. 👍
You are an excellent teacher! Thank you so much for your videos! I am learning so much :)
You’re very welcome my friend. I hope you get value from the other videos here on the channel and consider subscribing. 👍
@@PeteJohnsMusic Oh yes I have watched a lot of them and I have subscribed. So helpful !
This is exactly what I needed! Thanks for your excellent tutorial!
Great to hear! Thanks so much for taking the time to let me know. 👍
Nice, very helpful, nice info, nice flow - bravo!
Cheers my friend. I hope you get value from the other videos on the channel and consider subscribing if you haven’t already. 👍
Thanks pete! This is gold!
You’re very welcome my friend. I hope you get value from the other videos here on the channel and consider subscribing. 👍
So dope man. So many ways to get things done!
It’s pretty cool to he amount of opinions we have to create
Pete Johns definitely!
🤘
This video kicked all the others arses!!
Haha! Cheers Dan. 🙏
Excellent video! And great list of links a well. Your presentations rock, solid! Thank You! : )
Thanks my friend..
I love your videos ❤️
Thanks my friend. Really appreciate your support. Hope you get value from the other videos here on the channel and consider subscribing.
Pete Johns already did! 😊
I’ve been using a midi drumkit through GarageBand for a while now, but my son (who is the real drummer in the house) wants to upgrade to an acoustic kit. Do you have any experience or tips on how to record a “real” kit with GarageBand on the IPad? I’m using a Steinberg UR22-C if that helps…
Love your work as always!
Hey Rick. Not personally, but my friend over at White Noise has covered this and shares the techniques here. th-cam.com/video/Y96JycaSyQY/w-d-xo.html
Hi Peter, I’m enjoying your videos!
How can I fix latency on my iPad
Finger drumming? I’m a drummer n the latency irks me, thanks
Everett
Hmmmm..... I’m. It a drummer so don’t notice much latency? Make sure all apps are closed, maybe use airplane mode, and make sure you’re not using anything Bluetooth.
Thanks it is a great video is it the best way to learn Garage band ?
Hey there. Yes I’d recommend my GarageBand Essentials series - th-cam.com/play/PLc8Xg_23Wa55IUY55fNYokmyKf9GN1EH3.html
Or you can check out my GarageBand Beginner’s Guide here - studiolivetoday.com/courses
Its so fun to program midi drums. I hate the more “synth-y trap” drums so I *always* use acoustic drums, well, drums. :)
Haha! Nice one. Yes, there’s so much flexibility when it comes to adding drums these days.
I like to use both.
Depends on the song ;)
thanks for the video! for some reason when i go to the acoustic drums it give me "drummers" like kyle and logan. i dont want those, i want to be manual. how do i get rid of those "drummers"?
Hey there. Just make sure you are in the “drums” instrument and not “drummer”
50 ways to leave your drummer!
Todd Laskowicz Slip out the back Jack.....
Pete do you know of any good apps with a beat sequencer I could use with GB? I’m just not a fan of the drum sounds in GB.
The GarageBand beat sequencer is good but you can try things like EG Pulse or maybe Beatnaker 3?
Great!
👍😎
Any workaround for browsing your midi folder and previewing a midi file? So hard to put loops together if you have no idea what the imported midi sounds like lol
Yeah - unfortunately the MIDI implementation in GarageBand is pretty poor so haven’t come across any other ya to manage this.
How about triggering mesh heads but mic'd real cymbals in the same take
That might be a little beyond GarageBand iOS perhaps?
@@PeteJohnsMusic In a previous post you state you recorded 4 tracks simultaneously, but GB is capable of 6?
Pete waz up? Greetings. Is garage band drummer is copyrighted? Or is it safe to use in my songs and upload it in distrokid?
Hey there. Totally safe to use GarageBand sounds and loops - th-cam.com/video/IIqi6TRnTk4/w-d-xo.html
is there smart drums on garage band on the macbook air?? i am lost.
I’m not an expert in GarageBand Mac I’m afraid. Maybe check in with the GarageBand Guide or the GarageBand Users Facebook group. studiolivetoday.com/gbu
What’s up Pete do you know how to make a church choir and add it to your vocals so it can make your voice sound like you are in a church with other people. If you do can you please make a video on how to do it
Hey there my friend. So there are a bunch of effects that hat you can okay with to do this. Nine of them work perfectly but are worth experimenting with. Here’s a video about the vocal transformer that is worth trying out - th-cam.com/video/SVdg4bY7Tgg/w-d-xo.html
The best way honestly is to just layer multiple parts and add a healthy dose of reverb to them, as well as panning to the left and right to spread out the sound.
Sir, how can I create percussions on iPad on GarageBand
Hi there. There are some percussion drum kits in the “Drums” instrument. You can also use one of the “percussion” drummers in the virtual drummer instrument.
I’m making a video about percussion soon so make sure you are subscribed. 👍
Hi Pete. Can I connect my Roland V-drums to an iPad? I would like to play midi notes on my electronic drums and use drum sounds from garageband. Is this possible or do I need mac or pc for this? Fantastic channel. Thanks!
Yep, 100%. You just need a lightning to USB adapter (assuming you’re drums have USB MIDI out - otherwise you’ll need a MIDI to USB adapter too) and then you can use your drums as a MIDI controller.
Check out this video where I show the concept on a keyboard. Going to do a video with my electronic drums soon too. th-cam.com/video/RANCX1nnR6g/w-d-xo.html
Thank You:) I have ipad pro with usb-c. So I just need Usb-c to USB? My Roland td 17 has only midi out but no midi in. Is this a problem?
MIDI out will work fine and yes, you’ll just need a USB to USB-C adapter. 👍
Hello Pete, I have a quick question and I’m hoping you might be able to help-
I am currently working on a project and I’m having issues opening a shared garage band session on my iPad. I download the zipped .band session file from google drive into my GarageBand file transfer folder and it all works fine. But when I open it in garage band I get an error message that says “Can’t open song: the song you are trying to open is damaged or is in a format that GarageBand can’t read”. I’m not sure why it’s doing this as the file doesn’t appear corrupted in any way until I import it into GarageBand.
Further information you might need to know is that the session was created on an iPad running IOS14 and my iPad is running IOS12.
Any information you may have, would be incredibly helpful and appreciated.
Have a wonderful day, Art
Hey Art. I think I answered this on another video? You’ll need to be using the same version to be compatible. Otherwise they can send you individual audio files / th-cam.com/video/VallQgBz24E/w-d-xo.html
Hey bro, i have a problem my garage band project is heard very very low, do you know what I have to do?
Hey there my friend. When you say very low, is that when you are recording the tracks or playing back? And what sort of music are you recording (eg. Virtual instruments, real instruments, vocals etc)
Usually you can use the things like compression, volume and clip gain to increase volume but it depends on the actual issue.
Let me know some more details and I’ll try to help you out.
Pete Johns hey, the problem is when I play back the song, the song was mixed will and it sound loud but now isn’t, I use midi tracks and vocals
Hey there. Perhaps consider importing the exported track back in to GarageBand and mastering it to boost the volume? Here’s a video where o show how to do this.
th-cam.com/video/AKPwwGjnN4w/w-d-xo.html
Jobb Make sure the volume on your iPad is up. For some reason the developers made that a thing. Before the big update that wasn’t the case but it is now. I had a similar problem myself and simply raising the volume on the iPad fixed it.
Is it possible to get the rimshot sound? Can’t find it anywhere. I need it instead of snare drum sound
Hey there. Yes, most of the acoustic kits have a rim shot sound. You may need to add it in if you’re using he beat sequencer as it is not in there by default. It is often called “side stick” too.
On the manual drums, just tap on the very edge of the snare to get a rim shot instead.
@@PeteJohnsMusic Thank you for the answer! Can i get a side stick sounds by using a virtaul drummer?
I think some of the patterns have this in there. Try the more quiet and simple settings and you will probably get some.
they should give you a PHD, always keep coming back to you
Awesome! 🙌. Thanks for the support my friend.
Hello, I have a question, is it possible to record real drums with an iPad and a 4 channel interface? Greetings from Mexico
Hey there. Yes, you definitely could get a solid drum recording so try four mics using an interface like this / th-cam.com/video/l3xDq-bnwK8/w-d-xo.html
@@PeteJohnsMusic Thanks a lot Pete! Amazing videos
Can I save custom auto drummer beats pete
Hey there. Not really unfortunately. Not using the virtual drummers the beta you can do is have a project full of your custom beats and then copy them across to new projects, or use the merge function to turn them on to drum loops - th-cam.com/video/ZeloBMl4qqU/w-d-xo.html
How do I record Roland Vdrums into GarageBand via I connectivity mii midi in/out lead? I’m going out of my mind! 🤦🏻♂️
Hey there. My drums are USB so it’s quite simple. I’ve used this cable for older MIDI gear and found it works well - th-cam.com/video/l-g5UEsn6Ws/w-d-xo.html
Pete Johns I really appreciate your reply, considering how many other people you have connecting with you on TH-cam. Top man. Do you have any idea what part of GarageBand I need to go onto to transfer Vdrums via my Iconnectivity midi cable? 👍
I Love #Pete!
Juss Sayin.....
Thanks TIm.
I am a drummer so I record by playing 🤘
Nothing is compared to real but garageband drums sound a lil real after some compression and reverb
Very cool.
How do I record drums using a real drum kit?
Acoustic? Audio interface and a bunch of microphones. Electronic? Plug in via USB and record as MIDI.
@@PeteJohnsMusic Thanks man!
I just want to start drumming on my electrical drumset, you just showed drum machines
Hey there. I haven’t done a video on this yet but talked about your question on today’s live stream. th-cam.com/video/eSzbS8t_XN8/w-d-xo.html
You know what Pete, shorten your
talk and just start with your teaching
right away to make
your TH-cam channel perfect..thanks bro
Definitely something I’ve been working on. If you catch my more recent videos will find they are shorter and more focused on the info. Thanks for the feedback. Eve try thing is a work in progress and there’s always more to learn.
Logan looks like Neil Peart
Hahah!!! Gold.
Skip this video if you need to know how to record an actual drum kit. All he talked about is programming digital drums in the DAW
Good point!