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No midi import or export in GarageBand
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GarageBand IS a toy. of course it's a toy, it's free. if you need a real sequencer you should buy Logic. GB is not a sequencer, nor does it pretend to be.
I thought that GarageBand could support a USB MIDI keyboard. Do you mean that you can't play on a keyboard and have GB notate it?
Saying GarageBand is a toy is like saying iMovie is a toy. It is an entry-level recording/sequencing/loop program geared toward musicians who are computer-recording novices.
Just as a good editor can put together a very nice project using iMovie, a good musician will be able to make decent recordings with garageband. If you know how to import and export midi - and need to do so regularly - then you're not who this program was created for.
As others have said, I'm sure Apple intends to add many more features as the product matures. Just don't expect it to ever compete with a "Pro" music tool.
Just as a good editor can put together a very nice project using iMovie, a good musician will be able to make decent recordings with garageband. If you know how to import and export midi - and need to do so regularly - then you're not who this program was created for.
As others have said, I'm sure Apple intends to add many more features as the product matures. Just don't expect it to ever compete with a "Pro" music tool.
You can use a usb or midi keyboard to input music into Garageband. The original post is about importing files of midi data which has previously been recorded using other software.
Thanks for clearing that up, this whole MIDI thing is new to me. I've been a musician since childhood, but digital music is a whole new frontier for me.
Seth
Darn. This is something I was looking forward to -- taking existing sequences and playing them with GB's virtual instruments, then overlaying my own live tracks.
Oh well. Guess I can just input the songs by hand.
Oh well. Guess I can just input the songs by hand.
And you're exactly who Apple had in mind when they came up with GarageBand. I think it will open up a whole new frontier for a lot of people.
Harald4 said:
Which most people would have absolutely no idea what to do with.
Look, if you're going to dredge up a thread that's nearly a year old, at least post something that makes sense.