Can I play 2 instruments/tracks at once?

Can you explain how you do this? I don't see anyway to keep more than 1 track active.

The guy who really likes minecraft wrote:

u can play 2 tracks at once in app not when u got out of the app!

Unfortunately, recording a track is not what I'm after. Just looking to be able to switch between the 2 instruments. You mention 'minor exceptions' in regards to running more than one app at a time. Can you elaborate?

Thanks,

Chris

turingtest2 wrote:

With minor exceptions you can generally only run one app at a time.

You can record a keyboard track, then play that back while using one of GarageBand's guitar amps. What you can't do is switch back and forth between amp and keyboard during the song.

tt2

Oh, too bad. I had some high expectations. What about trying to use the feature where several ios devices can 'jam' together. If I had GB running on my ipod and my guitar plugged into it via the IU2, could I then use the ipad to send the keyboard parts to the ipod?

turingtest2 wrote:

"Minor exceptions" are things like playing the music app in the background while using a web browser.

I don't believe there will be an app that can act as an amp running in the background while you play keyboard in GarageBand.

tt2

Ok, tried the Jam feature and it didn't work as I had hoped. I had GB running on my iPod 4th Gen. I had my guitar hooked up to it via the Tascam iU2 and was playing a guitar sim. I then ran GB on my iPad and was running one of the keyboards. I initiated a Jam session on the ipod and joined the session from the ipad. I had thought that by playing the keyboard on the ipad it would transmit the activity to the ipod and the ipod would actually produce the sound (kind of like midi via the airwaves). But that's not how it worked. The ipad still generated the sound itself. I thought maybe you had to actually be recording in order for it to work the way I wanted, but no. When recording the ipad actually started when I hit record on the ipod and recorded its own part. When I hit stop, the ipod 'gathered' the performance info from the ipad and generated a new track with the keyboard info. Which is great, but not what I was trying to achieve. Oh well. Doesn't look like there's any way to do this, bummer.

Well, I asked the question because I didn't know if it was possible or not. That's why the forum is here. And since you said it was possible to play 2 tracks at once in the app I asked for clarifcation on how it could be done. But apparently you were wrong....

The guy who really likes minecraft wrote:

Well im not a big fan of Garageband but since there is no possible way to do it, maybe u shouldnt of asked this question in the first place...! sorry dude. i dont have a way to help u, cause there is no possible way!

Ok, I found a solution!! The latest update to Amplitube (free and paid version) allows Amplitube to output sound while in the background. Soooo, I can start Amplitube, get my guitar sound, then switch to GarageBand and set up a keyboard or synth, etc. and keep it as the active app. My guitar will continue to sound and I have the ability to play the GB instrument! Done.