Can You Download More Sounds For Garageband

There's more to GarageBand for iOS than meets the eye (and ear)! If you've explored all it has to offer, now's a good time to add some free sound effects, and Mike Watkinson shows how.
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GarageBand for iOS is a great app for creating music, but what if you have a project in mind that requires specific sound effects? Unlike the Mac app, GarageBand for iOS has a limited range of built-in sounds, so this tutorial shows you how to grab what you need from free-to-download websites like freesound.org.

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‎GarageBand turns your iPad, and iPhone into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. And with Live Loops, it makes it easy for anyone to have fun creating music like a DJ. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play keyboards, guitars, an. Jun 26, 2017  Yes. You can download Audio Units (AU) plugins for GarageBand. You can use Audio Units plug-ins in your GarageBand projects to add new sounds and effects.

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Dec 22, 2014  if you decide to buy MainStage, launch it at least once after you installed it. Use the command 'MainStage Download additional content' and then select the packages you want to install: It will install the JamPacks in the same libraries Logic and GarageBand are using, so you can use the sounds and loops directly from GarageBand. Unlike the Mac app, GarageBand for iOS has a limited range of built-in sounds, so this tutorial shows you how to grab what you need from free-to-download websites like freesound.org. Download First you will you need an app that lets you download assets (like audio files) from websites. Making music should be fun, even if you’re making it alone with your Mac. So you can download GarageBand and see how making tracks, sequences, and mixes look and sound like a real band. Looking like a simulator game, this app is quite a tool for composing and arranging your own songs.

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First you will you need an app that lets you download assets (like audio files) from websites. There are plenty that do this as downloading stuff is a popular activity! One that I have stumbled across recently that makes this fairly easy is iDownloads Pro as it has a built-in browser and file manager, and it’s only $0.99!

In the browser of iDownloads, navigate to freesound.org, or your website of choice for downloading free-to-use audio files, and make sure you read the licence agreements carefully—no stealing please!

Freesound.org requires you to be logged in, but once you find a sound you want, tap the ‘Download’ button. Choose ‘Download’ from the pop-up menu.

As with all apps of this type the file will download into the File Manager of the app itself—if you have already created sub-folders this will make organization easier.

Locate your file in the File Manager section and tap the blue arrow next to its name.

Tap the ‘Open with’ button which will make the ‘Open in...’ dialog appear (yes I know, why isn’t the ‘Open with’ button labelled ‘Open in...’?) Currently GarageBand is lagging behind other audio apps like BossJock and Audio Mastering for iPad which directly support the ‘Open in...’ protocol (strange as Apple develop both iOS and GarageBand!) so you will need to choose an audio editor app like TwistedWave or Hokusai (with Tools pack) as an intermediate step. So ‘Open in...’ one of these apps.

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In the audio editor app carry out any editing that is required.

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Copy the audio file to the AudioCopy clipboard—this will enable you to paste it into GarageBand.

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In GarageBand, create an audio track. This means choosing one of the two instruments that support audio files, the ‘Audio Recorder’ track or the Guitar Amp’ track. If you are starting a project from scratch you will need to ‘record’ something so a project is created and you can see the instrument as a track—then delete what you recorded.

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In Tracks view tap on the track background—a pop-up menu with the ‘Paste’ option will appear.

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Paste the audio file from the AudioCopy clipboard into your project. GarageBand doesn’t have an audio file manager either (like Logic Pro’s Bin) so to use the sound effect in other projects you will need to copy and paste it from one to the other. It’s probably worth creating a project just for keeping sound effects in for this very reason!

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