Apple Jam Pack GarageBand 2 User Manual Garage Band 2: Remix Tools Tips (Manual)

User Manual: Apple Jam Pack GarageBand Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools Tips (Manual)

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Tips for Using GarageBand Jam Pack 2:

Remix Tools Instruments

The GarageBand Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools package contains over 100 Software Instrument presets

you can use to create remixes in a variety of contemporary genres. In addition to synthesizer

instruments, Remix Tools includes Software Instruments in the following categories:

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Drum kits, including kits based on classic Roland drum machines

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Keyboard instruments for creating chordal riffs and pads

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Sound Effects “kits” you can use for atmospheric effects and transitions

This document describes the Drum Kit, Keyboard, and Sound Effects instruments included in

Remix Tools, and lists controller information for each of these instruments.

Drum Kits

Remix Tools includes 22 drum kits, featuring both classic and contemporary drum sounds. In

addition, you can modify the sound of each drum kit in real time using keyboard controllers,

including the modulation (mod) wheel and pitch bend wheel. The following table lists controller

information for the drum kits.

Drum Kit Controller Info

2-Step Remix

Big Beat Remix

Breaks Remix

Classic Hip Hop Remix

Classic House Remix

Drum ‘N Bass Remix

Electroclash Remix

Euro Dance Remix

Hard Techno Remix

Hip Hop Remix

Lo-Fi Remix

Old School Funk Remix

Paris House Remix

RnB Remix

Goa Remix

Trance Remix

Trip Hop Remix

UK Garage Remix

Raising the mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance.

Moving the pitch bend wheel raises or lowers the pitch of many drum sounds

(up to 3 octaves higher or lower), so you can change their pitch over time.

You can control the maximum length of most drum sounds using the Release

slider in the Generator editor window. Drag the slider left to create short, tight,

punchy sounds, used in certain styles of music.

When using the hi-hat drum sounds (notes F#1 and A#1 in most drum kits),

playing one note will stop the sound of the previously played note, like closing

a hi-hat with a foot pedal.

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Roland Drum Kits

Many dance hits, in genres ranging from Hip Hop to House and from Euro to Trance, feature the

sound of vintage Roland drum machines. Remix Tools includes drum kits that emulate four of the

best-known Roland drum machines.

Organization of Drum Kit Sounds

The sounds in the Remix Tools drum kits are organized across the keyboard in the following

general order:

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Notes below C0: Miscellaneous sounds relevant to the genre.

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Notes C0 to C1: Alternate drum kit sounds.

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Notes C1 to B2: Standard drum kit sounds, including kick drum, snare, hi-hats, ride cymbals,

crash cymbals, and toms.

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Notes C3 to A#3: Basic Latin percussion, including bongo, congas, timbales and agogo.

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Notes B3 to D#5:More Latin and other exotic percussion, including triangle, wood block, claves,

guiro, and cuica.

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Notes above D#5: Sound effects and other miscellaneous sounds.

Note:

On most smaller music keyboards, you can access higher and lower octaves using the

keyboard’s octave up and octave down controls. See the instructions that came with your

keyboard.

Drum Kit Effects

Most Remix Tools drum kits include optional effects commonly applied to drum tracks in the kit’s

genre. When you select the track with one of the drum kits, these effects appear in the Details

area of the Track Info window, but are turned off. You can turn them on by clicking the checkbox

next to each effect.

Drum Kit Description Controller Information

Roland CR-78 Kit Based on the CR-78 CompuRhythm,

the world’s first user-programmable

drum machine, a breakthrough from

Roland.

The mod wheel closes the cutoff

filter and increases resonance.

All Roland kits include drum kit

sounds with alternate effects in the

C–1 to C1 note range.

The TR-808 and TR-909 drum kits

include alternate kick drum sounds

in the C–2 to C–1 note range, and

alternate snare drum sounds in the

E5 to F7 note range.

Roland TR-606 Kit Based on the TR-606 Drumatix, the

highly portable, analog “little

brother” of the TR-808.

Roland TR-808 Kit Based on the TR-808 Rhythm

Composer, the all-time favorite used

in many hit songs from the 1980s

on.

Roland TR-909 Kit Based on the TR-909 Rhythm

Composer, the first Roland drum

machine to combine analog and

sampled sounds.

c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5

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Keyboard Instruments

Many dance music styles feature keyboard instruments playing chordal riffs and stabs. Remix

Tools includes nine new keyboard Software Instruments that give you a wide range of

contemporary keyboard sounds. Each note plays a chord, making it easy to create characteristic

chord progressions.

Instruments Description Controller Info

Detroit Overground

Detroit Underground

Short, bright filtered synth. Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter

and increases resonance.

Higher velocity increases volume.

Energy Blasts

Energy Stabs

Complex sound; sustained notes

fade gradually.

Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter

and increases resonance.

Higher velocity increases attack and

volume.

Genius Chords

Genuis Pad

Cool organ-like sound. Mod wheel adds panning and

subtle detuning, simulating a

rotating speaker.

Higher velocity opens cutoff filter.

Glacier Melt

Glacier Pad

Complex, vocal-like synth sound;

sustained notes fade gradually.

Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter

and increases resonance.

Higher velocity increases volume.

Heavenly Ascent

Heavenly Chords

Heavenly Gallup

Heavenly Ricochet

Very bright, modulating sawtooth-

wave synth sound.

Mod wheel abruptly gates the

instrument’s volume, allowing you

to perform rhythmic ‘strobe’ effects.

Higher velocity opens cutoff filter

and increases volume.

Lucid Chords

Lucid Swirl

Percussive piano-like sound, useful

for short accented stabs or

sustained chords.

Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter

and increases resonance.

Higher velocity increases volume.

Luscious Current

Luscious Pad

Rich, evolving vocal-like ambient

sound.

Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter

and increases resonance.

Higher velocity increases volume.

Velocity Chords

Velocity Funk

Sharp, bright synth sound that fades

quickly.

Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter

and increases resonance.

Higher velocity increases volume

and brightness.

Warm Glow Chords

Warm Radiant Chords

Smooth pad sound with soft attack;

sustained notes fade gradually.

Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter

and increases resonance.

Higher velocity increases volume.

Sound Effects

Today’s remix and dance styles often make use of sound effects, particularly for atmospheric

‘filler’ sounds and during breakdowns. Remix Tools includes two instruments in a new Sound

Effects instrument category. You play the Sound Effects instruments like the drum kits, with each

note on your music keyboard giving you a unique sound.

With the drum kits, keyboards, and sound effects instruments included in Remix Tools, you can

easily create your own beats, breaks, and remixes in today’s popular dance and urban music

genres.

Instrument Description Controller Info

Atmospheric FX

Atmospheric Processor

Atmospheric Strobe

Atom Smasher

Contains sounds you can layer over

your beats and riffs to add

atmosphere and mood.

Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter

and increases resonance.

Higher velocity increases volume.

Transition FX

Transfigure

Transmission

Transoceanic

Transporter

Contains sounds suitable for use in

transitions and breakdowns.

Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter

and increases resonance.

Higher velocity increases volume.

©

2004 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.

Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. GarageBand is a trademark of

Apple Computer, Inc. All visual and aural references to the CR-78, TR-606, TR-808, and TR-909 products, and all use of Roland trademarks are

being made with written permission from Roland Corporation. Sound recordings for CR-78 © Copyright 1978 Roland Corporation. Sound

recordings for TR-808 © Copyright 1980 Roland Corporation. Sound recordings for TR-606 © Copyright 1981 Roland Corporation. Sound

recordings for TR-909 © Copyright 1983 Roland Corporation. 019-0233-A