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Here in North America the NHL playoffs are now in full swing and perhaps you’re inspired to play some rocking organ! With GarageBand for iPad we get some great keyboard sounds with nifty screen controls! Not only can we use these keys in our songs that we’re recording, but as I explained in a recent tutorial, live use is also a possibility!


Setup and Equipment Needed

There are a few things we need.

  • Controller Keyboard with power supply - There are many to choose from and I use an Axiom Pro 61. You will definitely need the power supply as the iPad does not provide power through it’s dock port. If you want to use the Korg Nano series, you will need a USB hub with power supply.
  • Camera Connection Kit - Our keyboard controller communicates with GB through this device.


Axiom Pro 61

Apple's Camera Connection Kit

Controls

Each instrument has it’s own layout (organ with drawbars, synths with filter controls) but also there are some functions just above the keyboard and these will vary with the instrument selected. For example, “Sustain” will be on piano but not organ, organ will have the “Rotary” switch for the Leslie, all depending on the instrument.


Although we’re going to be using a keyboard controller, if you want to use the onscreen keyboard, you get different controls for how your screen keyboard responds. On the far left is an “Octave” plus and minus. A middle button for “Glissando”, “Scroll”, “Pitch” which vary again depending on the instrument selected and the right side has a “Scale”, “Arpeggiator” and “Keyboard Layout”.

“Glissando” lets you slide across the keys like a real keyboard would. Think of the piano player using the back of his hand and sliding up or down the keys.

“Scroll” allows you to play a note and while holding it, slide the keyboard up or down. Useful if you need to get into different octaves of the on screen keyboard quickly.

“Pitch” is a like a pitch bend wheel but lets you pitch up or down between notes simply by sliding your finger. Great for the vintage synths!

“Scale” is great for solos if you want to try different sounding scales in a piece of music. Once you pick the scale you want to use, the keyboard becomes more like a single row marimba minus the #/b keys. If you use a kb controller, you will still have all the notes available but you can learn what notes are used by playing them on the iPad and matching them on your keyboard. You’ll soon be playing “Klezmer” with ease!


“Arpeggiator” is your freedom to play multiple notes with one chord held down. You can choose note order, rate, and octave range. Great for dance tunes or your version of “Teenage Wasteland”! Unfortunately, the arpeggiator does not work with a KB Controller.


“Keyboard Layout/Velocity/Key Controls” - You can choose how you would like the onscreen keyboard to be set up with choices for one or two keyboards and octave range.
“Velocity” on and off is simple enough but you also can control the velocity range depending on the instrument (no velocity for organ since there is none!) left to the middle of the screen.
“Key Controls” simply turns on and off the view of the middle button for “Glissando”, etc.
There is also a hidden feature that is very cool and similar to an aftertouch on a KB controller. Load in the “Vintage Lead” preset under “Synth Lead” and strike a note. Now move your finger up and down that note.. instant filter sweep!

Keyboard Controller

Plug your keyboard into your Camera Connection Kit and make sure it’s secure as I find it can pop out easily. If it does, you may need to restart your iPad to get control again. Open up GB and navigate to the “Keyboard” instrument. Once this opens you can then select from pianos,organs, synths, etc. by tapping on the instrument in the middle of the screen. You can even store your own presets.
Again, think of the iPad screen as the controls for the organs drawbars or synths filters. Unfortunately GB won’t record this data during recording. Pitch bend and Mod wheels will respond on your controller as will velocity and after touch. Also, there are no ways to assign a KB controller’s sliders or knobs to say, organ drawbars or synth knobs, although I did find my “master” slider with MIDI CC#7 controlled instrument volume.

Using “Smart Instruments”

One feature I wish GB would allow is the use of “autoplay” but controlled via the KB controller. But there are some interesting ideas you can do by combining the “autoplay” feature and your keyboard. For example, select “Smart Keyboard” and choose one of the 4 “autoplay” modes. You then will see 3 bars with a chord on the top bar. The bar with the chord plays both left and right hand accompaniments, the middle bar is right hand only and the bottom is left hand bass. If you hit the top bar, you could solo on the KB controller. The middle bar could allow you to try bass combinations such as G-G/F-G/E or perhaps a piano bass line with a distinctive melody. Be careful though as the sustain is used most likely and can mush up your sound in the bass line. Using the bottom bar would allow you again more right hand solos or your own accompaniment.

Tutorial
If you want any electric or acoustic bass instruments, you will need to use “Smart Bass”. Using the acoustic bass gives a feature that is hard to emulate on the KB controller unless you get good with the pitch bend wheel.. sliding your finger along a fretless neck. Simply select Acoustic Bass, switch the “Chords” to “Notes” and tap on the screen. It adds some realism to the bass line and with some practice, can give some convincing results. Further editing can be done on GB on your Mac.


“Smart Guitar” is very similar to the smart keyboard and bass features with one additional feature. If you use your KB Controller, you can strike chords on your keys!Now you can use the “autoplay” feature for arpeggiated chords and “strum” chords on your keyboard. Great too for having ostinato picking patterns with multiple chord changes.

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Recording Tips

First and foremost.. PRACTICE! Yes.. I said that again as I did in the last tutorial. GB on the iPad does not allow editing like GB on a Mac . Not even MIDI editing for wrong notes. Maybe in version 2.. BUT.. you can slow down the tempo, unlike the Guitar/Audio recording section, and speed it up after. If needed later, you can open up the song on your Mac and edit it there. You also can save time by recording repetitive parts and then looping them. Simply record your part, double tap on the track region and select “Loop”.

If your timing is not that great or you need to tighten up a section, “Quantization” will help. Simply tap on the top right “Mixer” in the Track view and select your quantization value. Use the fastest value you played. For example, if a lead synth line played as fast as 16th notes, use the 1/16 Note value. Quantization will also affect all of the tracks regions in a section! But.. you can have different quantization on each section if a part gets moved from one section to another. Confused? Yeah.. me too at first. If you quantize a part in Section A to 1/8 notes but then move it to Section B that is quantized to 1/16 notes, the new part will show “Multiple”. This is something I seriously hope Apple fixes as it’s frustrating if you need multiple quantizations within a section.

Also, don’t be afraid to record a part and try different instruments as your song may take on a whole new flavor choosing a clav instead of a piano for example. Try duplicating the track with a similar synth but with a different filter cutoff and panned hard left and right. Or use two totally different synths. Bass lines can get really fat with this idea! Slow your song down and play in your own idea of an arpeggiated pattern.. speed up and loop!
Stay tuned for more GarageBand for iPad tips and tutorials. Till next time..don’t drive your neighbors nuts with the Minimoog playing Axel F or Tom Sawyer synth leads.

GarageBand User Guide for iPad

Using the Keyboard Touch Instrument, you can play different keyboards, including grand piano, electric piano, organ, clavinet, and synthesizer, by tapping the keys.

You can choose a keyboard sound, move higher or lower on the keyboard, hold notes, and change the keyboard layout and size. Some keyboards include controls for pitch bend, modulation, velocity, and other sound parameters. Alchemy synth sounds have an extended set of controls that you can use to customize the sound.

You can now use the chord strips (previously available on the Smart Keyboard) with all keyboard sounds to play chords, bass notes, and comping patterns.

Choose a keyboard sound

  • Tap the name of the sound near the top of the screen, then tap the sound you want to play. You can also swipe left or right to change to the previous or next sound. To view keyboard sounds in a different category, tap one of the category names.

Play higher or lower on the keyboard

  • To move the keyboard by octaves, tap the Octave Down or Octave Up button. To return to the keyboard’s middle range, tap the Reset button between the octave buttons. The number on the button shows the current octave transposition.

Hold notes longer

  • Touch and hold the Sustain control as you play. You can also drag the Sustain control to the right to lock it on.

    Organ sounds have a Rotation switch instead of a Sustain control.

Change the keyboard layout and size

  • Tap the Keyboard button , then tap the single- or double-row keyboard to change the layout.

  • Tap the Keyboard button, then tap the small, medium, or large-size keyboard to change the size.

Bend notes and modulate the sound

Some keyboard sounds, including synthesizers and clavs, have pitch bend (Pitch) and modulation (Mod) wheels in the controls area. You can use these to bend notes or change the character of the sound as you play the keyboard.

  • Drag the Pitch wheel up or down to bend the pitch of notes as you play.

  • Drag the Mod wheel up or down to change the sound of the keyboard. Modulation can add vibrato, resonance, or other changes to the sound.

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Adjust the touch sensitivity of the keys

Increasing the touch sensitivity makes notes sound louder or softer depending on how hard you tap the keys.

  1. Tap the Keyboard button , Virtual dj app download apk pure for blackberry. and turn on Velocity.

  2. Pinch the two ends of the Velocity bar apart to increase the sensitivity range, or pinch them together to decrease the range.

  3. Drag the Velocity bar up or down to move the sensitivity range. This is particularly useful after pinching the ends closer together to limit sensitivity to a narrow range.

Play the keyboard by swiping left or right

You can control the keyboard in different ways by swiping left or right across the keys. By default, swiping horizontally plays notes on the keyboard smoothly. You can change the swiping behavior using the Glissando button.

  • To move higher or lower on the keyboard by swiping across the keys, tap the button until it says Scroll.

  • To return to the default behavior, tap the button until it says Glissando.

  • Some instruments, particularly synthesizers, have a third setting. For these instruments, to slide smoothly between notes (called portamento), tap the button until it says Pitch.

Adjust the sound

Some keyboard sounds, including electric piano, synthesizer, and organ, include knobs or other controls you can use to change the sound while you play. When available, the knobs are labeled with the sound parameters they control. When you record the Keyboard, any movements to the controls are also recorded.

  • Turn the knobs while you play the keyboard, and listen to how the sound changes.

Adjust Alchemy synth sounds

Alchemy synth sounds include additional parameter knobs, the Transform Pad, and XY pads. You can view the other Alchemy synth controls by swiping the controls area left or right.

The Transform Pad has eight sections (called snapshots) that represent a group of settings for the sound of the instrument. You can adjust the sound by tapping a snapshot or dragging the rectangular framing box between the snapshots. When the framing box is over one snapshot, you hear the sound of that snapshot. When the framing box partially covers multiple snapshots, the sound of those snapshots is transformed to create a new sound. The amount that each covered snapshot contributes to the sound is determined by how much of the framing box covers the snapshot.

Do one of the following:

  • Play using a single snapshot: Tap a snapshot to place the framing box over it.

  • Transform the sound between multiple snapshots: Drag the framing box so that it partially covers the snapshots.

  • Transform the sound using Gyro control: Tap the Gyro Control button above the keyboard and tilt your iPad to move the framing box.

  • Transform the sound using the XY pads: Swipe the controls area left or right to view the XY pads, then drag the pucks on the two XY pads. Moving a puck changes the X and Y axis values on its pad.

Adjust organ sounds

Organ keyboard sounds include drawbars on the left side of the controls area. Drawbars let you quickly change the sound of the organ by adjusting the relative volume of different harmonics or stops. The drawbars are arranged left to right from lower to higher stops; dragging a drawbar down increases the volume of its harmonic, while dragging it up decreases the volume of its harmonic.

You can also control the speed of the rotating speaker effect using the Rotation switch.

  • Make the speaker rotate faster or slower: Drag the Rotation switch right or left.

Adjust the sound with Face Control

If your iPad supports facial recognition, you can add vibrato, resonance, or other changes to some keyboard sounds by moving your mouth while you play.

  1. Hold your iPad 10–20 inches (25–50 cm) away from your face and tap the Face Control button .

    The first time you use Face Control, GarageBand asks for permission to access the camera on your iPad.

  2. As you play, open and close your mouth to change the sound.

  3. To turn Face Control off, tap the Face Control button again.

When playing Alchemy synth sounds, you cannot use Gyro Control and Face Control at the same time.

Note: GarageBand uses ARKit face tracking features to translate your facial expressions into instrument effect controls. Your face information is processed on device, and only music is captured during your performance.

Play the keyboard using a particular scale

  • Tap the Scale button , then tap the scale you want to play.

    After you choose a scale, the keyboard changes to show note bars rather than keys. Tap the bars to play the notes of the scale.

View note labels on the keyboard

You can view note labels for every key on the keyboard.

  1. Close GarageBand.

  2. Open the Settings app, scroll down, then tap GarageBand.

  3. Tap Keyboard Note Labels.

Play arpeggios automatically

The Keyboard Touch Instrument includes an arpeggiator. When you turn on the arpeggiator, chords you play on the keyboard are arpeggiated, or played one note at a time rather than simultaneously.

Note: The arpeggiator is not available for Alchemy synth sounds listed under Arpeggiated.

  • Tap the Arpeggiator button , then tap the Run switch.

    When you turn on the Arpeggiator, other controls appear below the Run switch, letting you set the order, rate, and octave range of arpeggiated notes. Old djay pro free.

    • Tap Note Order, then choose the direction of arpeggiated notes.

    • Tap Note Rate, then choose a note value for arpeggiated notes, based on the tempo of the song.

    • Tap the Octave Range up or down arrow to set how many octaves the arpeggio covers.

When the Arpeggiator is turned on, the Sustain control becomes a Latch control. If you touch and hold or lock the Latch control, the current arpeggio keeps playing. Tapping a different key transposes the current arpeggio to start on the tapped note.

Play the keyboard using chord strips

  • Tap the Chord Strips button to view the chord strips.

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Play chords or bass notes with chord strips

  • Play chords higher or lower: Tap one of the five upper segments of a chord strip.

  • Play a bass note or sets of bass notes: Tap one of the three lower segments of a chord strip.

  • Play chords and bass notes together: Tap an upper segment and a lower segment at the same time.

You can add your own custom chords to play.

Play comping patterns

  1. Turn the Autoplay knob to one of the numbered positions.

  2. Tap a segment of one of the chord strips.

    • The upper segments (showing the chord names) play chords and bass notes together.

    • The middle segments play chords only. Tapping with two or three fingers plays variations of the pattern.

    • The lower segments play bass notes only.

  3. Tap the segment again to stop playing the pattern.

Chord strips for monophonic keyboard sounds are not divided into segments. Turn the Autoplay knob to select a pattern that plays when you tap the chord strips. Tapping a different chord strip plays the same pattern with the notes of that chord.

Save your own custom sounds

  1. Modify an existing keyboard sound by adjusting the keyboard controls.

  2. Tap the name of the keyboard sound near the top of the screen, then tap Save.

  3. Type a name for your custom sound, then tap Done.

    The first time you save a custom sound, a new Custom category appears. You can rename or delete the sound by tapping Edit, then tapping the icon (to rename the sound) or the red circle (to delete the sound).