Hello
I want to get back into recording music, and rather than using my PC, I want to try using my iPad Mini. Garage Band seems a likely starting place. I've been trying to figure it out, but I'm not having fun yet.
I've looked here and mostly found people asking for tutorials, but no actual step by step information.
I have done a little YouTube looking, but haven't found anything too useful as there's so much, "tap this, slide that."
I am mostly interested in recording audio, such as voice and acoustic instruments. If there is another option, primarily based in audio multi-tracking rather than loops, samples, and virtual instruments, I'm all ears!
For now, I'm happy playing with the onboard mics until I decide this is a good direction for me to take. Then, I'd look into a audio interface. In a perfect world I'd love a simple small keyboard, with transport and encoders, and an audio interface.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
And finally,
Comments
I know how to create an audio track.
I'm intending to start a podcast about this, soon. I need to figure out how to generate video for Youtube though. I also need to mess around with the interface a bit more. I got to the place where you create an audio track, but I need to get it consistent.
Basically though, if you make a new song, there's a "create audio" button. Hit that and you get an audio track, then you just record like you think you would, by hitting the record button. I'm also not sure if you can add audio tracks, so far I can't see how, but I'm working on figuring it out one way or the other.
GarageBand user guide
The online GarageBand user guide has a very good section on using it with VoiceOver. I've used it to record some basic multitrack stuff, but I'm far from great at it.
That's one thing I wish we had more of, good resources for how to create content.
The problem with the user guide.
It makes it look like GB is set up for instruments. While that might largely be true, you can absolutely record at least one audio track with GB. But you won't find that in the Voiceover section, it's in the main manual. On the one hand, sure, read the whole manual, if you really want to get familiar with it. On the other hand, I'm not even sure if it's mentioned in the VO section, I didn't go through the whole thing looking for it, just the sections. The VO section seems to pretty muc hcover dealing with instruments.
The guide is great in a lot of ways, e.g. there's actually a whole set of keyboard shortcuts if you're using a Bluetooth keyboard, and hint, you probably want to if it's at all possible. The Voiceover section also covers the stuff it covers fairly well. It's pretty straightforward to work through, so far.
But I think some kind of tutorial needs to be made just for stuff like audio, aside from having examples to walk through for the rest of the stuff. Because I'm not sure just reading the guide gets you where you need to be.
About instruments
I've played around with GarageBand on iOS, less so with Mac. On iOS, you can actually play around with the instruments, like having a piano on screen where you can mess around with chords and the like. I didn't find any such option in the Mac version. Is it there, or do I have to use something LogicPro for something similar?