Apple GarageBand Jam Pack User Manual Voices

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Voices

GarageBand Jam Pack: Voices contains over 20 new Software Instruments featuring the sound of the human voice. You can use these instruments to create your own vocal and choral compositions, or add vocal tracks to songs in a variety of styles. Voices also includes over 1500 Apple Loops with vocal phrases that you can use to build your own original voice tracks.

This document contains the following information about using the instruments and Apple Loops included in Voices:

“Introducing the Voices Instruments” on page 1

“Using the Voices Apple Loops” on page 7

“Performance Tips” on page 8

Introducing the Voices Instruments

Voices gives you a collection of instruments featuring the human voice, including both solo and choral sounds. Choir instruments include classical, chamber, boys, and gospel ensembles, while solo instruments include an Eastern voice, a synthesized soprano, and a whistler. Voices also features a variety of percussion and rhythm instruments including human beat box, human bass, vocal shouts, and human rhythm sounds. The Voices instruments include the following categories:

ÂChoirs, featuring classical and chamber choirs in male, female, and mixed versions; Gregorian choir; boys’ choir; and gospel choir

ÂSoloists, featuring an Eastern voice, a synthesized soprano, and a whistler

ÂPercussion, featuring human beat box, human bass, human body rhythm effects, and vocal shout instruments

Apple GarageBand Jam Pack User Manual Voices

This document describes the Software Instruments included in Voices, lists controller information for each instrument, and provides performance tips for using the instruments. It also provides tips for working with the Apple Loops included in Voices to build vocal lines.

Choir

The sound of human voices singing together in harmony, combining words and music, has inspired classical composers to create some of the greatest works in the history of music.

The Voices Jam Pack includes a classical choir that you can use to produce a full choral sound, and a chamber choir that you can use to impart a more intimate feeling. Both the classical and chamber choirs feature separate male and female instruments as well as a mixed male-female ensemble that can be used to create passages in traditional four-part choral harmony.

Classical Choir

A classical choir, consisting of 16 male and 16 female singers or more, produces a full, rich sound that can range from subtle to dramatic in effect. The choir used for this instrument was recorded in a cathedral setting for an authentic sound. Some of the most famous composers in history have made use of a full choir in their best-loved works, including Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis; the Mozart, Brahms, and Verdi Requiems;

Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture; Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”; and many opera choruses. The sound of a full classical choir has also been used in many film scores to underline moments of mystery and drama.

Chamber Choir

In addition to a full classical choir, Voices includes a chamber choir to provide a more intimate, transparent sound. The chamber choir has been featured in many works of the Baroque and Classical periods, and more recently in films and in recordings in a variety of styles.

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Gregorian Choir

Gregorian chant represents the earliest type of music written down in Western history. In the chant style, the voices all sing the same melody in unison (or octaves). Chant became the basis for the masterful choral style of the Renaissance, with complex compositions based around a chant melody, known a cantus firmus. One characteristic of Gregorian-style choral singing is the lack of vibrato, allowing the voices to blend completely and creating a more austere, reserved feeling.

Modern composers (including Durufle, Debussy, and Arvo Pärt) have been fascinated by the purity and simplicity of Gregorian choral singing, and have used or suggested it in their compositions. In recent popular music, the Gregorian choir was popularized by the group Enigma (in their piece “Sadeness Part I”), who used it together with a dance beat. It was subsequently employed by other pop and rock groups, as well as by New Age artists wanting to add a sense of spirituality to their music.

Boys Choir

Western Europe has seen a long-standing tradition of boys’ choirs, with perhaps the most famous example being the Vienna Boys Choir (in existence since it was founded in the late 15th century by the Emperor Maximillian), which has long maintained a reputation for high musical standards, and has included singers and composers who later achieved great fame and success. Boys’ choirs typically consist of boy soprano and alto voices, which together convey a sense of lightness and purity.

Gospel Choir

Gospel music embodies a unique blending of African-American and European vocal traditions, reflecting its origins in the American South. The gospel choir, featuring a rich vibrato performing style, has gone on to captivate the world with its simple yet highly expressive sound. The Harlem Gospel Choir is the modern standard-bearer of the full gospel sound and tradition. Gospel choirs now exist not only in the United States, but in every part of the world from Australia to South Africa, and gospel singers and choirs are used in popular and other recordings to convey moments of depth and spiritual feeling.

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