Can I create an acapella in Garageband?

Since GB is a multitrack recorder, you could record anything you wanted to record.

acapellas with instruments? can you explain in a little more detail what you are looking to do?

mike

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. Acapella means "in the style of the chapel" - it's music designed to be performed without instruments so your post is confusing me.

Cheers

Dick

Read closer. i said instrumentals, not instruments.
I want to use the original track, and the
instrumental.
And match them to create an acapella

Chris, I have to say your wording isn't clear, so I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do. However, assuming you are trying to match new performances to an existing recording:

You can drag the existing recording into GarageBand. Turn off the metronome. You can listen to the output of GarageBand on headphones and record any number of new tracks, singing or playing along with the original recording. You can mute the original track in order to play back only the new tracks, whose levels you can then adjust to get the sort of mix you want, and export the result to Tunes as a mixdown.

Go here for a tutorial on using GarageBand:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/garageband/

Hope that helps.

Just to clarify your question:

Are you trying to record both vocals and instruments with the goal of outputing the vocals alone as well as the vocals with instruments, in other words, two different versions, one acapella and one with accompaniment?

As long as you have the hardware to send separate channels to GarageBand and record the vocals on a separate track(s) to the instrument(s) then you should be able to do this. Low end audio hardware that just sends one stereo channel to your Mac may not be sufficient to do what I think you are asking.

Taras

MacBook Pro, PowerMac G5, PowerMac G4, iMac G4, iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

hardware that just sends one stereo channel to your Mac may not be sufficient

As long as you just want two mono channels, a single stereo OUT is fine

~~HangTime V1.9.9.9.1 [Will Compute for Food] B-)>

hardware that just sends one stereo channel to your Mac may not be sufficient

As long as you just want two mono channels, a single stereo OUT is fine

The key word was in my reply was may. I'm trying to get the original poster to better describe what is being attempted.

Taras

MacBook Pro, PowerMac G5, PowerMac G4, iMac G4, iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

If you want to created different versions of one song (ie an acapella and instrumental version), then when your full version is complete, mute the tracks accordingly, then export to AIFF. Only the active tracks will export. So you can have a full instrument and vocal version, a vocal only version (acapella), and an instrument only version (instrumental).

If you are trying to take an already mixed song and extract the vocals from the instruments, that's a different animal. The short answer is no, but HangTime has a link regarding this that goes into more detail.

Is that the idea? I had given up trying to figure out what this thread meant.

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