GarageBand User Guide for iPad
After you install GarageBand, additional content bundled into sound packs may be available to download in the Sound Library.
Sound packs can contain different types of content, including the following:
- How to use voice on mixxx. Sounds for the Keyboard and Alchemy synth
- Drum kits for Drums, Smart Drums, and Beat Sequencer
- Live Loops grids
- New Touch Instruments
You will be prompted to select an instrument which you can use to create a song in GarageBand. Browse from left to right or right to left to find the Audio Recorder in GarageBand which you can use to record voice, sound and audio on iPad. Home / House / House Samples Sound Effects for Garageband. House Samples Sound Effects for Garageband Posted on June 20, 2018. Loops by dragging and dropping the unzipped.AIFF files from your local folder directly into the loop browser within Garageband. To import the files to the iPad version of Garageband you'll need to do that via iTunes.
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In the Sound Library, you can download and manage sound packs on your iPad. Each sound pack has an icon and a name that shows a brief description and preview button when you tap it.
Notifications on your iPad and numbered badges in GarageBand indicate that new or updated sound packs are available in the Sound Library. New sound packs have a badge labeled New, and sound packs already installed are labeled Downloaded.
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Some sound packs may also be needed to perform certain tasks, such as opening a GarageBand song created on another device. In this instance, a message appears, asking if you want to download the required sound pack.
Open the Sound Library
Do one of the following:
- Tap the Browser button , swipe left or right, then tap Sound Library.
- Tap a numbered badge in the Sound browser, Template browser, Loop Browser, or anywhere you can choose instrument sounds.
Download a sound pack
- In the Sound Library, tap the sound pack you want to download.Sound packs needed to open a song have a badge with an exclamation point.
- Tap the Preview button to hear a sample of the sound pack.
- Tap Get to download the sound pack.
- Tap Done when you finish.
Delete a sound pack
- In the Sound Library, tap the sound pack you want to delete, then tap Delete.
- Tap Done when you finish.
Manage sound packs
You can manage downloaded sound packs to free up storage space on your iPad. The total amount of space used for all installed sound packs is shown at the top of the list. The size of each individual sound pack is shown in the list. You can delete sound packs whether or not your iPad is connected to the Internet.
- Open the Sound Library and tap Manage Packs in the upper-left corner.
- Do either of the following:
- Delete a sound pack: Tap Edit at the upper-right, tap the Delete button next to the sound pack you want to delete, then tap Delete. Alternatively, you can swipe left on the sound pack, then tap Delete.
- Download a sound pack: Tap Get next to the sound pack you want to download.
Manage notifications
You can change the settings for notifications you receive when new sound packs are available. You can turn notifications on or off, choose how and where you want the notifications to appear, choose how you want the notifications grouped, and more.
- Close GarageBand, then open the Settings app.
- Tap Notifications, scroll down, then tap GarageBand under Notification Style.
- Change the various settings for GarageBand notifications.
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.
Download
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.
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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.
Edit, Copy, Paste
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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.
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.
Add Sounds To Garageband
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!