1. Answer: A: I don't think you can open a midi file in GarageBand iOS yet. Share the midi-track in GarageBand as an audio file to iTunes and open it on your iPad. Or play the midi file and record it using the Music memo.app. The way you can have Music Memo analyze the audio and create a car file with smart instruments as accompaniment.
2. Just play the 7th fret of the top string (on the iPad garageband fretboard), along with the 5th of the D string (third from the bottom), and you will achieve exactly the same sound. Those are the notes shown with the 12/10 in the tab. The other notes can be played as tabbed. (I guess you know how to play an open string 0 on the iPad app?).

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Using the piano roll in Garageband, like other DAWs, is one of the most useful features of using any digital audio interface, mostly because you can draw the notes that you want to use directly in the workspace, without actually playing them. This tutorial is going to be more like an encyclopedia for all of the various techniques one can use in the piano roll.

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Without further ado, let’s explore the features of the Piano Roll, including its structure, as well as some of the tactics for putting it to good use, however, the first thing you probably want is a brief introduction/synopsis in terms of how it works.

To use the piano roll in Garageband

Edit regions in GarageBand for iPad. Regions are the building blocks of a GarageBand song. When you record a Touch Instrument, use the Drummer, or add Apple Loops to a song, a region appears in the instrument’s track in Tracks view. There are three types of regions: Regions from Audio Recorder and Amp recordings and from imported audio files.

1) Hit (E) on your keyboard to bring up the Piano Roll.
2) Use the (Command + Click) to bring up the pencil that will allow you to quickly draw in MIDI notes
3) Draw MIDI notes on and off the grid-line
4) Use the Time Quantizer to fix imperfections

Now that you’ve gotten a brief look at the fundamentals of how the piano roll works, let’s dive into the details.

Structure of the Piano Roll

The Piano Roll, essentially, is a bunch of grid-lines and bars that are separated evenly across the Garageband interface.

Additionally, these same grid-lines and bars are situated right beside a piano that’s laid out across the screen vertically. Each grid-line corresponds to a specific note on the keyboard (by the way, it wouldn’t hurt to learn the secrets of piano from PianoForAll if you’re serious about making the most out of the keyboard).

You can zoom in and out of the interface to have a closer look at what you’re doing, or you can switch it to the score editor, which will layout the notes in actual standard notation, rather than just MIDI notes (more on the score editor in my guide).

You can use the Horizontal Zoom Slider, which will zoom in and out of the interface, or you can use the same option on your trackpad, which means that you’re spreading your fingers either apart or closer together on the trackpad.

It has the same effect.

On the left-hand side of the Piano Roll, you’ll notice that you can actually see the notes of the piano.

Each octave is separated by numbers and letters, including C0, C1, C2, C3, and so on and so forth. These are the octaves on the keyboard (Mark Sarnecki’s Complete Elementary Rudiments and the Answer Book from Amazon are great for music theory fundamentals).

For instance, the C3 is typically the Middle C, so keep that in mind. You can actually play each note of the keyboard on the left-hand side to see what it sounds like. The piano roll on the left-hand side of the grid-lines looks like what you can see in the image below:

The grid-lines are separated into groups of four, and the numerical value of each grid-line changes depending on how you’ve selected the time signature in the top center of the DAW.

On the top-left-hand side of the Piano Roll, you also have at your disposal an automation function that’s useful for adjusting the velocity of several different parameters.

For instance, you can adjust the velocity or the strength of the notes, or you can adjust the chorus, bass, ambiance, pitch bend, sustain volume, panning, modulation, expression, drive, bell treble, or the reverb.

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Of course, you also have your transposition functions in addition to time quantization (my guide), which means that you can adjust the actual pitch of all the notes automatically just by selecting by how many semi-tones you want to change everything.

Unfortunately, there are some limitations to using the piano roll in Garageband.

For instance, you can’t copy and paste the notes into the interface as quickly and as efficiently as FL Studio users can for when you want to quickly create snare or hi-hat rolls, although, there is a fast way to do it in Garageband with my guide.

Regardless, there are many different shortcuts for using the piano roll, and we’ll explore some of them here.

Tips And Tricks For Using The Piano Roll

1) Command + Click

The (Command + Click) option is how you draw notes right in the piano roll as efficiently and as easily as possible.

Clearly, the method for doing this is quite self-explanatory, you just want to hit the (Command + Click) option, and by click, I mean hitting the trackpad.

What this does, is that it allows you to draw the notes into the Piano Roll very fast. Typically, when I create music with Garageband, I either use a MIDI keyboard like Arturia’s KeyLab 88 from ZZounds, or I play my PRS SE Custom 24 guitar (also from ZZounds) and create melodies that way.

However, some people like to use the piano roll primarily to actually draw the notes right in the piano roll space. If that’s what you like to do, this command is for you.

This is also useful for creating things like snare and hi-hat rolls.

It’s definitely worth mentioning that this is the same way that you add notes in the score editor, in case you want to add them as actual units of standard notation.

Truthfully, most producers don’t know how to read music, so this feature isn’t mentioned as much, but either way, it is there for you to use in case you do know how to read standard notation.

2) Hit (E) To Bring Up The Piano Roll

This one is self-explanatory. The Piano Roll can be selected either by hitting the ‘E’ on the keyboard or by going up to the top-left-hand side of Garageband’s interface and hitting the icon that looks like a pair of scissors.

In the case that you need help with some of the symbols and icons, there is the Help button (?) that will allow you to drag the cursor over different aspects of the DAW.

As your cursor moves across different functions, a little yellow text box will appear that explains precisely what it does.

3) Copy and Paste The Notes

When using the MIDI notes in the piano roll, there are a number of things that you can do to save time, including copying and pasting the notes into the piano roll if you want things to repeat.

For example, you would just drag a selection box around all of the desired MIDI notes, and then hit the (Command + C) function, and then use the function right after, (Command + V), to paste the notes wherever you want.

It’s important to note that the notes will be pasted according to the Playhead bar, which, as I’ve explained in my 16 tips forediting tutorial, is the little bar that moves along with the piano roll as it’s playing.

In other words, it’s the little bar and arrow which looks like what’s shown in the image below:

4) Select and Extend/Retract the MIDI Notes

Similar to the function above, you can actually make adjustments to every single MIDI Note in the piano roll at once, after selecting all of them together.

Using the Select Box – or whatever you want to call it – your trackpad mouse, drag a box around each note, and then extend the length or retract the length of one note, and you’ll notice that every single note in the piano roll will extend in the same way.

This is another useful time-saving feature.

5) Copy and Paste Using The Playhead Arrow

There are a number of ways of doing the same thing in Garageband, with some being more useful in different contexts.

For instance, using the playhead arrow, you can copy and paste the notes in such a way where Garageband does it automatically, according to how many MIDI notes you’ve copied.

What I mean by that, is that you copy a group of notes by using the (Command + C) function, and then you drop the playhead arrow right after that same group of notes.

From here, you hit (Command + V), and then Garageband will automatically copy and paste the notes according to the location of the playhead arrow, and it also moves forward by the number of MIDI notes.

I understand that what I just said is somewhat of a word salad, so make sure to check out the video below to see what I’m talking about. It’s right around the 4:33 mark.

And that’s pretty much it for the piano roll.

YouTube Video Tutorial

Conclusion

Ultimately, the piano roll isn’t the most sophisticated interface in Garageband, so frankly, there isn’t much else to say about it in terms of what can be done with it. I can’t think of anything else to show you in terms of the piano roll. If I ever come upon additional tips and tricks, I’ll make sure that I update this article.

As I mentioned above, there are some limitations to the Piano Roll in Garageband, but ultimately, it’s very easy to use and for the most part, it has most of the functions that other DAWs have. Make sure to do me a favor and share this on social media with your friends.

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There is a lot you can do with Keyboard in GarageBand for iPad. You can begin with swiping between different Keyboard sounds. You can choose the size of keys and the number of octaves visible by tapping on the Keyboard Buttons. Velocity can also be controlled with a dedicated control button on the Keyboard. Sep 23, 2019 Open your song in GarageBand on Mac and then open the Score Editor. You can do this by double-clicking the MIDI region or pressing your N key. At the bottom, in the center, click Score. This will display the musical notation for that region. You can zoom in or out on the display by using the Zoom slider to the right.

The Score Editor displays MIDI regions on software instrument tracks as music notation, including notes, rests, key and time signature, and clef signs. Bar lines show the division between measures. Gaps between regions are filled in to display a continuous staff.

View a track in the Score Editor

Do one of the following:

• Click a software instrument track header, click the Editors button in the control bar, then click Score (or Press N).

• Click a track header, choose View > Show Editors, then click Score.

When one or more regions are selected, the following controls appear in the Score Editor inspector (to the left of the score display):

• Region Name field: Edit the name of the selected regions.

• Time Quantize pop-up menu (with Strength slider): Quantize the timing of notes in the selected regions.

• Transpose slider: Change the pitch of notes in the selected regions.

When individual notes in a region are selected, the following controls appear in the Score Editor inspector:

• Insert pop-up menu: Choose the note value for notes to insert.

• Time Quantize pop-up menu: Quantize the timing of selected notes.

• Velocity slider: Change the velocity value of selected notes.

In addition, the Grid pop-up menu appears in the Score Editor menu bar, so you can set the visual quantization of notes in the Score Editor, independent of their Time Quantize value.

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1. Open the Garage(Band)

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You don’t have to be a musician to create music for your movies. Using Apple’s GarageBand app on the iPhone or iPad, you can easily assemble a song or specific musical cues out of pre-recorded loops.

If the included loops don’t cut it, GarageBand also includes a bunch of Smart Instruments that let you play preset grooves or individual notes that seamlessly conform to the song’s tempo and key.

If you are a musician, even better! Connect an instrument—like a guitar or a MIDI keyboard—or a microphone to the iOS device and record your own compositions. GarageBand Includes guitar amp simulations that can make you and your electric guitar sound like anything from a surf-rocker to a hair-metal god. It also has vocal effects that can give a professional polish to your voice or make you sound like a monster or a robot. And for you keyboard players, the included piano, synthesizer, and string sounds will add lush beauty or a techno edge to your movie soundtrack.

Open the Garage(Band)

Don’t be intimidated if you can’t even fumble through “Chopsticks.” GarageBand has a few tricks up its sleeve even for the musically inept.

The app is built around what Apple calls Touch Instruments. These are instruments you can play directly on the iPad or iPhone, and they’re a natural for the Multi-Touch interface. You need to open one of the instruments in order to get to the included loops, so let’s start there.

Open GarageBand. If this is your first time in the app, it will open to the Touch Instrument browser (4.1). Choose Keyboard.

4.1 Instruments at your fingertips

Calculate Tempo from Movie Length

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While working in iMovie, you’ll no doubt encounter a situation where you need a piece of music to fill a specific chunk of time. Using midi with garageband. While GarageBand on the Mac lets you change the ruler to show minutes and seconds, the iOS version does not. There are ways around this restriction, though, if you’re willing to do a few easy calculations.

If you know you have, say, 8 seconds of video to fill, and you need to create a piece of music to fit, the trick is figuring out how many measures and what tempo your song needs to be. Fortunately, an app called Audiofile Calc can calculate this for you. The app conveniently includes a song length calculator (4.3). In most cases, you need to use a little trial and error to get a workable solution, since the length is a product of the equation and not a variable you can enter yourself.

The vast majority of songs (and almost all the Apple Loops in GarageBand) are four beats per bar, so you can usually leave the last field set to 4.

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Working backwards, the number of bars refers to the length of your piece in musical “measures.” A measure is a segment of musical time defined by the number of beats per bar, set in the bottom field. Each measure, or each count of “1-2-3-4,” helps define the musical pulse of a song and the pattern of strong and weak beats that give a song its rhythm. Most Western music is broken up into subsections of four, eight, or sixteen measures, so sticking with multiples of four is a good idea unless you have a good reason to do otherwise.

The Tempo field determines how fast your piece is. Anything below 70 or 80 beats per minute (BPM) is considered slow, 80–112 BPM is a medium tempo, and 112–140 BPM is fast. Anything above 140 BPM or so is quite fast, and 180 BPM and above is extremely fast. If you haven’t already worked out a rough tempo in GarageBand, it may be useful to play with some options and see what feels right for your movie. Tempo is an important consideration and has a huge impact on the emotional impact of the music.

Once you’ve entered all the required information, Audiofile Calc gives you the resulting length. Adjust the Tempo and Bars fields until you arrive at your video length, then input the resulting information into GarageBand.

Open the Settings menu (on the iPad, tap the wrench icon; on the iPhone, tap the gear and then choose Song), and tap the Tempo button (4.4). Listen to how it works musically. You may find that the tempo is too fast or that the number of bars doesn’t feel right and you need to adjust accordingly.

4.4 Changing tempo

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