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Record Controllers without Erasing Notes

I am debating with someone who looks upon GarageBand as "a toy" rather than a serious editing tool. I cannot argue with his assessment that we have an extreme lack of editing capability in the unlisted CC controller levels. But one thing he mentioned has bothered me as well.

When all your notes are recorded exactly the way you want, and you want to go back and add in controls from the pitch and the mod wheel, though I can both hear and record the control changes, unfortunately, this also erases the notes!

Is there any way to stop this from occurring? My only work around is to copy the notes to another track, make my control recordings then join the two tracks--but this is silly and should not have to be.

Am I missing an easier way to do this?

2.0GHz Intel Core Duo iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Aug 18, 2007 11:23 AM

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Aug 20, 2007 10:19 AM in response to Schneb

i don't think it can be done exactly the way you want, but here is a way:

you can copy the control points from the pitchbend region in the track editor, and then paste them into the take in which you want them. so once you get a perfect take, you go for another one, less concerned about perfection in notes, just perfection in pitchbend, etc.

'bout the best i can come up with

Aug 20, 2007 10:50 AM in response to HangTime

Unfortunately, I will have to tell the guy that GarageBand will not do what all the others do natively. Sigh. My work around, as stated above, is to copy the notes to another track, make my control recordings then join the two tracks. This works for me and keeps everything in alignment. But it should not have to be that way. There should be a record-enable placed on the control track to record control points only. sigh. Still love GB4 though.

Aug 20, 2007 2:58 PM in response to HangTime

I agree. But without the initial product, we could not have had the byproduct. 😉 Actually, when you think about multi-take, there are two options. Take after take stored separately for review, or take UPON take for, say, drum loop creation. It's still multi-take, but in another form more than a byproduct.

Record Controllers without Erasing Notes

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