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Tips for Using GarageBand
Jam Pack 1 Instruments
The GarageBand Jam Pack 1 package contains over 100 Software Instrument presets you can use
in your songs. In addition to synthesizer instruments, Jam Pack 1 includes Software Instruments
in the following categories:
Drum kits, including dance, electronic, pop, and jazz kits
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Guitars, including 12-string, acoustic, and electric guitars
Basses, including electric basses and an upright bass
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Symphonic string section
Wind instruments, including flutes, saxophones, and horn sections
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Mixed classical choir
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Classical piano
Vibraphone, with and without rotating resonators
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This document describes some of the instruments included in Jam Pack 1, and lists controller
information for each of the instruments.
Drum Kits
Jam Pack 1 includes several new drum kits featuring both classic and contemporary drum
sounds. In addition, you can modify the sound of each drum kit in real time using keyboard
controllers, including the modulation (mod) wheel and pitch bend wheel. The following table
lists controller information for the drum kits.
Drum Kit Controller Info
Electro Kit
RnB Kit
Tribal Kit
Raising the mod wheel adds vibrato.
Moving the pitch bend wheel raises or lowers the pitch of many drum
sounds (up to 3 octaves higher or lower), so you can change their pitch over
time.
You can shorten or lengthen the length of most drum sounds using the
Release slider in the Generator editor window. Drag the slider left to create
short, tight, punchy sounds, used in certain styles of music.
When using the hi-hat drum sounds (notes F#1 and A#1 in most drum kits),
playing one note will stop the sound of the previously played note, like
closing a hi-hat with a foot pedal.
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Organization of Drum Kit Sounds
The sounds in the Jam Pack 1 drum kits are organized across the keyboard in the following
general order:
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Notes below C0: Miscellaneous sounds relevant to the genre.
Notes C0 to C1: Alternate drum kit sounds.
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Notes C1 to B2: Standard drum kit sounds, including kick drum, snare, hi-hats, ride cymbals,
crash cymbals, and toms.
Notes C3 to A#3: Basic Latin percussion, including bongo, congas, timbales and agogo.
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Notes B3 to D#5: More Latin and other exotic percussion, including triangle, wood block,
claves, guiro, and cuica.
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Notes above D#5: Sound effects and other miscellaneous sounds.
c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5
Note: On most smaller music keyboards, you can access higher and lower octaves using the
keyboard’s octave up and octave down controls. See the instructions that came with your
keyboard.
Drum Kit Effects
Most Jam Pack 1 drum kits include optional effects commonly applied to drum tracks in the kit’s
genre. When you select the track with one of the drum kits, these effects appear in the Details
area of the Track Info window, but are turned off. You can turn them on by clicking the checkbox
next to each effect.
Guitars
Jam Pack 1 features both acoustic and electric guitars, including a 12-string acoustic guitar, with a
special instrument that plays major and minor chords.
Instrument Description Controller Info
12 String Acoustic Folk-style 12-string guitar
12 String Chords Each note plays a complete major or
minor chord, with adjacent octaves
playing up and down strums.
Muted Electric Guitar Rock electric guitar playing short,
stopped notes
Roundback Acoustic Guitar Contemporary acoustic guitar good
for rock ballads, folk-rock, and other
“unplugged” music
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Notes E0 through D#2 play major
chords. Notes E2 through D#4 play
minor chords.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Highest velocity adds slide up to
note.
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Bass
Jam Pack 1 features several new electric basses, and an upright bass.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Ballad Electric Bass Smooth electric bass for ballads, soft
rock
Picked Electric Bass Classic picked bass sound for rock,
pop, and blues
Upright Ballad Bass Soft upright bass for “unplugged”
sounds
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Strings
Jam Pack 1 features an orchestral string section, good for adding string fills.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Bright Arco Strings Full orchestral string section
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Woodwinds
Jam Pack 1 features two new saxophones, and a classical flute.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Baritone Sax Full baritone sax for jazz, funk
Classical Flute Concert flute with natural ambience
and EQ
Soprano Sax Mellow soprano sax for jazz ballads
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Horns
Jam Pack 1 adds one new horn section to your collection of horns.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Funk Horn Section Horn section with bright EQ
Highest velocity adds stab down
from note.
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Choir
Jam Pack 1 features a full classical choir.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Mixed Choir Full classical choir with men’s and
women’s voices
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Pianos and Keyboards
Jam Pack 1 features an additional piano.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Classical Piano Grand piano with natural ambience
and EQ
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Mallets
Jam Pack 1 includes two vibraphone instruments, with and without the classic, swirling sound of
rotating resonators.
Instrument Description Controller Info
Rotary Vibraphone Vibraphone with characteristic
sound of rotating resonators
Vibraphone Vibraphone with resonators off
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Higher velocities increase loudness
and attack.
Mod wheel adds vibrato.
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