Problem with the drums

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Problem with the drums

I am having an issue were the drums often don't register a full hit. There needs to be a way to disable the volume effect for the drums. In trying to lay down a drum track for my song, I was going to start with the snare drum. Problem was about 20% of the time my hit would register as an ultra quiet hit, even thugh I hit it as hard as my previous time. Very frustration, doesn't seem to matter how hard I hit the snare, if I hit it 20 times in a row, 2 or 3 will invariably be almost nothing. With this problem being present, it is impossible for me to lay out a drum tack for my song. I have a iPad 1 and have not had any issues with it hardware wise that I know of. I don't see anyone else complaining of this issue, so not sure what the deal is. Are others able to lay down drum tracks just fine?

IPad 1, iOS 4

Posted on Mar 13, 2011 9:25 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 13, 2011 1:37 PM in response to Ron Dorn

I have the same problem too. Hopefully they will fix it soon. I did mention it in a previous post.

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Answer 2

Danizzz

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Mar 13, 2011 3:35 PM in response to dirtschmooz

Same problem here .....very annoying.....hope in an update soon!

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WeeBie

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Mar 13, 2011 6:39 PM in response to Ron Dorn

Same thing here. The velocity sensitive thing really doesn't work that great. I hope the just give us an option to turn it off.

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Mar 14, 2011 4:49 AM in response to Ron Dorn

I would agree, would love to see a way of turning the hit force off.
It's great for piano, but sometimes I just don't need/want it.

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Answer 5

Mar 14, 2011 5:47 AM in response to WeeBie

Using GarageBand on both an iPad 1 and iPad 2, I can say it works a little better on the iPad 2 in my short time testing. Either way, though, it is far from perfect and hopefully they improve the velocity detection.

--Chuck

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lord_dav

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Mar 14, 2011 3:38 PM in response to Ron Dorn

Exactly the same here. The app is awesome, hope the will fix it soon.

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HangTime

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Mar 14, 2011 4:15 PM in response to Ron Dorn

Ron Dorn wrote:
I am having an issue were the drums often don't register a full hit. There needs to be a way to disable the volume effect for the drums.

i think this should help, guys:

http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#touchsensitivityipad

(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

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Ron Dorn Author

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Mar 14, 2011 8:22 PM in response to HangTime

I would thank and compensate you, if that solved my issue, unless I an missing something it does not. Your proposed fixed seem to work great for keyboards. However changing it for the keyboard for not appear to effect the drums. There does not appear to be an equivalent control for the drum portion of the app. So while I must give you an A for effort, and C for partially on the right track, still an F for an effective solution for drum tracks, unless that is I am missing something.

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Answer 9

Mar 15, 2011 5:19 AM in response to Ron Dorn

...and even for the piano/keyboards, that doesn't address the problem of poor velocity detection when using the touch instruments.

I think including velocity with the touch instruments is necessary for some subtlety in the way they sound...it just doesn't work very well in version 1.0.

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RudyL90

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Mar 27, 2011 1:45 PM in response to Ron Dorn

I am happy to read that I am not the only one with this problem.
Well, it is not only the drums that I have problems with. Also the other touch instruments just seem to not react properly, often when I hit piano keys hard, they just sound quiet.
I also thought that the accelerometer might be broken, or not sensitive enough. Because when I move my iPad 2 backwards when hitting, for instanse the snaredrum, it sounds as loud as it should when hitting hard.
Might the accelerometer be the problem or is it just the software?

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bengstr

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Apr 1, 2011 3:18 PM in response to Ron Dorn

I love the new Garageband for IOS and the touch sensitivity is my one complaint too. I would like to be able to turn this off. To me one advantage of recording on an electronic device is you can be consistent with the volume of the snare drum on 2 and 4, etc. If I wanted imperfection I'd mic my live snare 🙂 I'm confident Apple will see these comments and make the change. It is a great idea that just doesn't work that great. Again the rest of the app is amazing! I plan to try the Apogee Jam for digital input soon!

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HangTime

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Apr 1, 2011 3:28 PM in response to bengstr

bengstr wrote:
I'm confident Apple will see these comments and make the change.

if you want the Apple programmers to know, you need to tell them directly:

http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#sendfeedback

(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

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dougj99

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Apr 1, 2011 7:52 PM in response to HangTime

My god, what an annoying website. I hope you are at least making some money off all those ads....

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Answer 14

Apr 3, 2011 4:35 AM in response to HangTime

Wow.

You can ignore the basically-spam website and just go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/garageband_ipad.html

--Chuck

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Answer 15

Nov 26, 2012 10:15 AM in response to Ron Dorn

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead, but is anybody still having this issue with the iPhone 5 and garageband? Sometimes the velocity function works and sometimes it doesn't. I'm trying to figure out if there is a hardware issue with my device or if it's just software that needs to be tuned.

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