Garageband: no sound

[betsbillabong]

Hi everyone,

I'm having trouble getting sound out of Garageband - I've boiled it down to simply trying to play simple Apple loops or use musical typing to play software instruments.

Sound is working properly in all other applications, including iTunes, Peak and Final Cut Pro. Audio input/output is set to Built-In in both GB preferences and Audio-Midi preferences. The MIDI is recording (ie, I can see a track appear when I play, and I see levels in the track) but for some reason the audio is not getting down to the mixer below (volume is up all the way on individual track and bottom right main, mute is off).

I'm running OS 10.4.8 with Garageband 3.0.2.

Any suggestions? I'm working on something time-sensitive. Thanks!

[iSee]

In the Audio MIDI setup app, check the format of the audio output. I've had problems with some apps when the rate is set too high. If it isn't already, set it down to 44100 Hz... Good luck

[betsbillabong]

Hi ISee,

Thanks for the idea - unfortunately I'm still not getting any sound. It was already set to 44kHz-16 bit. I tried changing it to 24-bit to see if that made any difference but it didn't.

Any other ideas?

[betsbillabong]

Okay - hopefully helping someone else out here. It was pretty obvious.

I called Apple support and amazingly got through to someone really knowledgeable right away. He asked me to log in as another user to see if the problem persisted. It did not.

He then had me trash the two GB files in my Home --> Library --> Preferences

Now it works. Hope that helps someone. The 44.1kHz tip was a good one, though. Thanks, ISee.

BB

[diburrup]

This has happened to me several times and I finally figured out how to fix it. The Track has gotten corrupted somehow, but the audio is still good. You can simply create a new track and move the audio to it and it should play fine. All your volume/automation edits are lost tho... those are Track features. Hope this helps others...

[rhett7660]

Do you have speakers that are set to digital or analog? I would check under the preference setting and see what your audio line out is. If you have digital I would change it to digital and see if that helps. I noticed this when I changed my speakers.

[diburrup]

I think I need to clarify the "no sound" problem I was having, we may be talking about 2 different issues here. My problem was everything was playing fine, then one track would just quit playing. Audio was there and the meter was reading like it was there, it was not on MUTE, but no sound. This is what I was referring to fixing by creating a new track and moving the audio to it. The track itself can become corrupt when the audio region is just fine.

[gavnor]

Thank you, Thank you, diburrup. After an hour scraping around forums I found your simple workaround! Thanks it works. But what a bleedin pain. An audio composer that gets corrupted and can't play audio, nil points mac. Get it sorted. Any solutions to fixing this bug please tell.

NB I had already done all the obvious checks, monitor on, mute off, system audio routed correctly.

GB 5.1 on Intel MacBook