[codywalton]

Originally posted by xi_hyperon:
Here's my first GB track, using the slide guitar loops. They remind me of something you'd hear from an old recording, so I intentionally made the quality as such. I brought down the EQ quite a bit, converted the tracks to mono, and even added a "hiss" to it to give it that "old timey" feel. Kind of silly, but hey, it's late.

Old Record

That's great!

Me and my brother did something similar on his Pc with cakewalk, when we were doing a bunch of Robert Johnson covers.

[ambush]

Originally posted by awaspaas:
Try this. There's a discussion in another thread though, about how something like the MobilePre will give your guitar more power.

Can I buy this somewhere else on the net? What should I search for on eBay?

I only have paypal

[ckohler]

Here's a little song I did in 15 minutes using only the included loops. I don't have any past musical experience.

Click here to listen to a little techno.

[dole]

I found this on the Apple Discussions about Garageband. If you go to the left of the record button and drag up, there are more effects hidden there that you can choose.

Here is a pic of the new effects

[Krusty]

Originally posted by ambush:
Can I buy this somewhere else on the net? What should I search for on eBay?

I only have paypal

a simple 1/4" to 1/8" adapter can be found in a lot of places for $1-$3 US (like Wal-Mart, Radio Shack, any place that sells portable audio) Ones with an extension cable (like apple is selling) can be found many places as well
Here's one for $6 US.

edit: BTW, great stuff everybody !! I haven't listened to absolutely every song posted yet ... has anyone been bold enough to lay down vocals yet ??

[blikum]

Alrighty here's something a little different...
hope you like porn music.

http://idisk.mac.com/blikum1/Public/...nspiration.mp3

I love Garageband!

[Groovy]

Originally posted by awaspaas:
So, I got garageband this afternoon, and I was playing around with the software guitars. So, some crappy 90s song came on the radio and I decided I'd try to play it in the GB. Results of the first part are here, (I don't feel like making the rest) - this is all me plunking in software instruments on my keyboard.

http://homepage.mac.com/awaspaas/.Music/gb.m4a

I'd be interested in hearing what some of the first songs coming out of you people sound like!

nice! I expected

Edie Brickell to start singing HAHAHA

[CheesePuff]

Originally posted by dole:
I found this on the Apple Discussions about Garageband. If you go to the left of the record button and drag up, there are more effects hidden there that you can choose.

Here is a pic of the new effects

That's actually the first thing that I discovered when using GB.

[Groovy]

Originally posted by vmpaul:
It's 'What I Am' by Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians. One-hit wonders.

Made by your computer keyboard? Or the musical kind?

Great job either way.

LOL damn you beat me to it!


That is EXACTLY what popped into my mind when i heard it a few minutes ago

[kulverse]

Here's mine. Nothing special.

Fender Strat plugged in the back.

Bass/Drums/xylophone are all software.

http://www.withinisugly.com/wank.mp3

[handras]

This is my first try.

Just a little solo, with my Ibanez gitar.

http://www.pixel.hu/xms/Bounced.mp3

[handras]

Originally posted by kulverse:
Here's mine. Nothing special.

Fender Strat plugged in the back.

Bass/Drums/xylophone are all software.

http://www.withinisugly.com/wank.mp3

Cool!

Damn! You are fast..

[ctbritt]

Here's mine. Something eastern flavor... maybe. <shrug> First song I've ever done. All loops.

http://homepage.mac.com/callbritton/FileSharing.html

[Thor]

Throttled

[Sophus]

Been playing around with Garageband. I herebye present you with my first to compilations of music EVER!:

Rocking Guitars and stuff

and

Funky strings (Violins and stuff)

Enjoy!

(Garageband really rules, considering even I could get some tunes out of it...).

Sophus

[Groovy]

Now here is some great GB music

The guy used just GB loops then got his girl friend to sing into the iMic then released it to
www.garagebandcreations.com which is where it appears most GBers are hanging out.
Anyway he never told her and was not going to if no one liked it. Well so many people
said it was great he told her and though she is was totally embarrassed, she was also pleasantly
surprised that everyone likes her voice.



Click here to hear her voice

[hyperb0le]

I played the guitar and bass in this one, and used GB Loops for the drum set in the background.

http://www.freestructure.net/lacuna/...ing%20Duet.m4a

[Trekkie]

My two songs are made entirely of the included loops. Like most people I have no prior musical experience and made these by just having fun with GarageBand.

I present to you Utter Crap. Later on I went back to it and tweaked it some more. Here is the Utter Crap Remix. I hope you enjoy.

[ambush]

http://www.garagebandcreations.com/a...cat=501&page=1

<--- pretty ****ing leet
but the loops make it sound a BIT cheap-o!

[SeSawaya]

my Alias inspired tune. All loops as I dont have it hook up yet to my midi percussion yet

http://homepage.mac.com/sonordrum/.P...lias_sting.mp3

Let me know what you thing.

[waffffffle]

http://www.princeton.edu/~dsemaya/My%20Song.band.mp3


I played guitars and bass. The neck of my bass is warped, that is why it sounds so terrible (because it's impossible to play with the strings a whole centimeter above the frets).

This is literally the first thing I recorded in GarageBand. If I were to do it over it would probably sound a lot better.

[Trekkie]

For those who are interested I tried my best to reproduce Steve's "on-the-fly" creation he made during the keynote. Some of the loops he pulled from his favorites so they're not all going to sound the same.

[Groovy]

Originally posted by ambush:
http://www.garagebandcreations.com/a...cat=501&page=1

<--- pretty ****ing leet
but the loops make it sound a BIT cheap-o!

hey i told you it was all GB loops.

they plan to remix it with better loops
but you have to admit it is darn good and worthy of air play even.

[kovacs]

Awesome thread, keep 'em coming...

[Busemann]

My second tune

guess the samples

[starman]

*sigh*

Through Clouds

It's short. I just slapped it together in about 1/2 an hour.

Mike

[beverson]

Nothing that special �_just made a loop for a friend's Flash project (kids math game) with the included loops in GB. Only took like 30 min. to do, and the last half of that was fine tuning. For a first shot, I kinda like it.

Funky Snowman.

I told him he owes me a beer.

[Biggysteve]

Some Guitar Sh*t

I went a little nuts once I got my guitar connected Garage Band and found some loops I liked. Kinda cool, but kinda crappy at the same time.

edit: safari apparently didn't like the file name

[RayK]

This is great. Sounds like stuff I've been doing with Soundtrack, I'll post some later.
Great work guys and Gals!

Ray

[Macpilot]

OK, I was going to not get iLife 04, but now that I have listened to these examples of the musical talents of the MacNN'ers, I must now have GarageBand!

Nice work guys!

That porn-track was great!

[silverlode]

Thurdansk.mp3

It's live guitar, software electric piano and bass, and of course loops.

[killer_735]

http://www.rit.edu/~spr8768/tryout.band.mp3

Just jamming around on one chord..haven't yet figured how to program in chord changes. I'm playing a fretless jazz bass plugged in to the audio in, which I must confess, I'm impressed by the quality of.

One really cool thing you can do with garageband is to mix up instruments from different parts of the world that are radically different...they sound amazing together. This particular song used an congo beat and mandolin playing, which I think are the coolest parts of the song. I like that the samples aren't all electronic-sounding too-it's nice to have (comparitively) warm, earthy samples to work with.

[Jansar]

Originally posted by SOLIDAge:
Well my first creation was "Rockin'"
http://homepage.mac.com/alasaracina/FileSharing30.html

there are alot of them up there now! my favorites are

Surf
Named (first song i ever recorded on my old 4-track for my own EP)
Rock N Roll


check em out! feedback welcomed thanks!

Out of all the music I've heard here, yours is no doubt the best. You've got some real good songs going on there. Keep it up!

[Don Pickett]

Coolest. Thread. Ever.

[starman]

Because of this friggin' app I now have to rearrange my room. Thanks, Steve! .

Mike

[Busemann]

Amazing what a few minutes can do

[starman]

Here are three things I've learned by using GB:

1) I suck
2) I really suck
3) Goto 1)

But seriously, one gripe I have about GB is its lack of sounds (samples). I have this idea for something but I can't get the right sound. So, I feel like I should get the Jam Pack, but how do I know THOSE sounds don't suck?

Also, finding the right drum beat is a PAIN IN THE ASS. I know they did their best, but my God, I can't tell you how many times I thought I had something because it said "techno" only to find what I want in something like "Dance beat 498".

Mike

[dole]

Here is another try at making something with GB...

[Buderus]

here is my first track - listen to it

http://homepage.mac.com/info_buderus/FileSharing9.html

[b1iZZaRd]

Just thought i'd add mine............

http://echoserv.net/blizzard/mystuff/files/just-mix.mp3
http://echoserv.net/blizzard/mystuff...techno-mix.mp3

[powerbook867]

added mine too.....

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/test.mp3

this is one cool app. Not being a music person, it seems truly innovative...let me know if I'm off base on that thought!!

[boardsurfer]

Originally posted by kulverse:
Here's mine. Nothing special.

Fender Strat plugged in the back.

Bass/Drums/xylophone are all software.

http://www.withinisugly.com/wank.mp3

kickass.

Here is my little 80's synth pop

40 seconds or so. Let me know what you think!

[spatterson]

How do you manage to convert the .aif files into mp3 files? I've looked on verstion tracker and there are a few demos but that is 30 bucks... any ideas fellas?

[killer_735]

You can convert the files in itunes. If you highlight something aac (or several somethings)...

Advanced>convert selection to Mp3. It puts it in the same directory as the .aac file(s)

[spatterson]

Originally posted by killer_735:
You can convert the files in itunes. If you highlight something aac (or several somethings)...

Advanced>convert selection to Mp3. It puts it in the same directory as the .aac file(s)

Awesome! Thanks!

[MindFad]

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[Biggysteve]

As a guitar "player", I found Garage Band's included amps to be pretty bland and lacking a certain mid-range growl that I love to hear without using massive amounts of distortion. So, I decided to plug in my Rat to my guitar, wah and Mac, and dial in some decent EQ settings. The results? I like the tone much, much better, and I just recorded my second half-assed wank-fest with it.

Me in all my off-time, pentatonic, wanker glory: The Rat Distortion Test

[cybergoober]

OK. I decided to join in. Try not to laugh too hard. Hard as it may be.

It is with much shame and humility I unleash:
Froot Loops

Not exactly sure what "sound" I was going for here. This was done entirely with the included loops (don't have the Jam Pack yet). I did have to transpose some of the stuff (bass and guitar mainly) to fit with the strings etc (heh, I wouldn't have known what the hell that was a couple of days ago). It is a "work in progress".

Unfortunately I don't have an audio interface yet, or I would have added my own guitar.

Actually, I don't think I did too bad considering this is my first experience with audio mixing/editing software. Well, my wife seems to like it�

[wludavid]

For all of you doing loop-based songs, what kind of system are you using? My G3 iBook 700 with 384 MB or RAM really starts to top out at about 3-4 tracks. Are there some tricks some people are discovering? Or will I be stuck buying a G5? (Darn, well, you gotta do what you've gotta do )

David

[dole]

The one I did a few posts up was done on my iBook 800 with 640MB of RAM and it contains 7 tracks and it works fine.