Apple GarageBand Jam Pack User Manual Instrument Tips

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Apple GarageBand Jam Pack User Manual Instrument Tips

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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

Guitars, including 12-string, acoustic, and electric guitars

Basses, including electric basses and an upright bass

Symphonic string section

Wind instruments, including flutes, saxophones, and horn sections

Mixed classical choir

Classical piano

Vibraphone, with and without rotating resonators

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

Electro Kit

RnB Kit

Tribal Kit

Controller Info

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:

Notes below C0: Miscellaneous sounds relevant to the genre.

Notes C0 to C1: Alternate drum kit sounds.

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.

Notes B3 to D#5: More Latin and other exotic percussion, including triangle, wood block, claves, guiro, and cuica.

Notes above D#5: Sound effects and other miscellaneous sounds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

Mod wheel adds vibrato.

 

 

Higher velocities increase loudness

 

 

 

and attack.

 

 

 

 

12 String Chords

Each note plays a complete major or

Mod wheel adds vibrato.

 

minor chord, with adjacent octaves

Higher velocities increase loudness

 

playing up and down strums.

 

and attack.

 

 

Notes E0 through D#2 play major

 

 

 

chords. Notes E2 through D#4 play

 

 

 

minor chords.

 

 

 

 

Muted Electric Guitar

Rock electric guitar playing short,

Higher velocities increase loudness

 

stopped notes

 

and attack.

 

 

 

 

Roundback Acoustic Guitar

Contemporary acoustic guitar good

Mod wheel adds vibrato.

 

for rock ballads, folk-rock, and other

Highest velocity adds slide up to

 

“unplugged” music

 

note.

 

 

 

 

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Tips for Using GarageBand Jam Pack 1 Instruments

 

 

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