I'm relatively new to garageband, and I've got a midi controller set up to play with the different instruments they have, but I've noticed that unlike the steinway digital instrument, all of the instruments under "synthesizer" will only play one note at a time, that is, monophonically. Is there a way to make my synthesizer in garageband play more than one note at a time? thanks!
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
The Software Instruments in GB are polyphonic. Draw a few notes in the Piano Roll Editor with the Pencil Tool to check.
Maybe your external controller sends only one note at a time
Hope that helps
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That's very strange, because when I use the steinway piano, it grabs every single note i play, but then when i switch to say jump bass, it will only play the key most recently played.
For example, if i play a c major chord, by the end of it i'll only hear the high c. What changes? what could i do? how could i change it?
In fact, I can take an intricate piano part that I recorded on the Steinway digital instrument, and just drag and drop to the synth instrument, and it will only play one note at a time and the whole piano part is hardly recognizable.
In fact, some instruments are programmed on purpose to be played only monophonic, i.e., solo bass, solo synth. Sometimes they have a special portamento effect programmed that only works with monophonic lines, or it is just the choice of whoever programmed that patch.
For the bass synth that would make sense. For a piano or a pad sound not that much.
Well, for the ones that are programmed to be monophonic, is there a way to make them play several notes at once?
Well, for the ones that are programmed to be monophonic, is there a way to make them play several notes at once?
Only by using more than one track - a lot of work to spread your chords across several tracks.
You could spend $200 and buy Logic Pro X. There you can open the Synth in its own Plugin-In Window with all the available Parameters. There you can re-program the Patch to make it polyphonic.
Might be a little bit too much work, but at least, it is possible.
Thanks everybody for your help. I guess what it all boils down to is that polyphonic functionality for some synth instruments in garage band just isn't available. The way to go about it would be to upgrade to logic and follow these instructions: Logic Pro X, MainStage 3: Some notes may not play - Apple Support
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