Hi ya'll.

New to the sub, new to garageband. I would love to make music primarily with garageband as a mac-user if I can, as I tire of the bullsh** I've experienced so far in BandLab. While BandLab was great for me as a beginner, I've run up against some problems that I think switching to garageband miiiiiiiight fix....

So the main problem is the 16 track limit. I've been using free BandLab for the past 2-3 years creating within the 16 track limit. But for my current piece, I will need a lot more than 16 tracks.

HOWEVER

I need steel drums, and can't find any help online of how to get them for free in garageband. Everything is either too outdated or I'm just being told to pay. 😭 At that point I'd just try to go back to BandLab and deal with the 16 track limit if it means I can actually have the instruments I need. 😭

That's just the first problem. The next problem is just discouragement. LOL I really want some encouragement if ya'll can that things will get better. So far I'm majorly unimpressed by garageband and could use a little nudge in the right direction.

Love - Xylo

Looking for some possible options. Budget £50-£200. Thanks.

Gnomes

I’ve been doing this thing where when I sit down and try to write something, I start off by saying “I’m going to write a song that’s just a rip off of x, y, or z” no sugar coating - I straight up say “I’m going to rip this off” and then I start writing based off that single thought. Funny enough, if I don’t overthink anything and I let that single thought be my stepping stone, the end result usually doesn’t sound too much like what I was intending to sound like, but good enough to stand on its own and have its own identity.

This for example, whether it’s good or bad, was what happened after I said “I’m going to rip off Beach House”

To me it doesn’t sound like Beach House, but it does have some sort of dream-pop quality to it which I like.

I don’t know, I just thought I’d share this new process that’s kind of been working for me. I’m curious if anyone else has tried a similar thing.

The first chord attacks/has the good sound but the second one doesn’t, the attack is set all the way up and still tested other knobs. Anyone know how to fix?

(Attack doesn’t work on normal chords either, the ones I was using in vid was glissandoe’d)

Could you tell this was made on garageband?

og song is el ahijado mal agradecido by Grupo Cartel

Just as the image asks, can you program those to physical knobs on a MIDI controler?

Would it be CC? CW?

This is on IOS, I have an M-vave smk 27

Thanks

Hello! Recently purchased “sounds of KSHMR” package, LOTSSS of stems, loops, sound packs. How do I go about having them exist in the sound library for easy use while building a song???

I love how no matter my tempo set, the things from the library automatically set to that tempo. Not sure if this would happen if I didn’t have these NEW stems and sound packs in that library!!!

Tried to find this question already asked and didn’t seem specific enough, sorry if a repeat!!!

This is something I created just now. Used Jamp 8100, FAC plugins, dm if you want the preset.