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Quick question here for a novice šŸ¤“,Ā I installed GarageBand yesterday, and I have an irig2, and after a lot clicking around managed to import a backing track a friend sent me, and Iā€™ve sort of found out how to record my bass, but I canā€™t play over the backing track and hear what Iā€™m playing, itā€™s one or the other, Ā on this video at 3.42 it says thereā€™s a monitor option, but it isnā€™t on the app, any ideas, cheersĀ 

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Is that on the Mac or on iOS - I assume iOS with your video?

Now I look at garage band there doesn't appear to be a monitoring unless you are recording (not when just playing). As you said, there used to (I use JamUp or BIAS Amp, which were always better at playing along to a track) and it also depends on your interface (I am not familiar with the IRig).

If you set it to record, you can use the monitor button and just throw the recording away when you have finished. If you are not recording though I would still use something like JamUp for just playing along.Ā 

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Tony - 2 things that may help

GO to settings and advanced and click run app in the background - you can then play when say listening to a track in Spotify or whatever or when not directly in the app.

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I am pretty sure you can listen and play whilst the track is playing but not recording, but when you add a second track into the stream you have to make sure monitoring is available for both

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Whenever i do a new track i normally just use voice or instrument, go to producer effects/fun - have it on clean - then you can use anything external you already have.

Actually the tube amp isnā€™t too bad as re other effects in there for a bit of a mess around.

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Lemme set one up from scratch again and see how i managed it - but i am pretty sure its monitoring for both tracks has to be selected

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Also tapĀ this icon

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Make sure you have the settings correct for each track

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4 minutes ago, Cuzzie said:

Tony - 2 things that may help

GO to settings and advanced and click run app in the background - you can then play when say listening to a track in Spotify or whatever or when not directly in the app.

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I am pretty sure you can listen and play whilst the track is playing but not recording, but when you add a second track into the stream you have to make sure monitoring is available for both

Many Thanks cuzzie, Iā€™ll take another look, I lost hours yesterday trying to figure it out , I was looking for the simplest way to record the bass over a backing trackĀ 

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Have to walk the dog, but i do it not infrequently- Iā€™ll check again in a bit and give you a nudge if you havenā€™t done it already.

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to import tracks i usually have them saved on the device and just import as an mp3 with a right click (effectively) and make sure you set the tempo to the same as the recording tempo if you want any formal control and pass it back and forth between people

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9 minutes ago, Cuzzie said:

Have to walk the dog, but i do it not infrequently- Iā€™ll check again in a bit and give you a nudge if you havenā€™t done it already.

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to import tracks i usually have them saved on the device and just import as an mp3 with a right click (effectively) and make sure you set the tempo to the same as the recording tempo if you want any formal control and pass it back and forth between people

Thanks cuzzie šŸ‘

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OK - i am sure you have it, but just as a 101 for people.......

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Clicking this helps you set up basic stuff on the track as you can see

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Tapping the plus button ads another track and you can chose what, if inserting music, i suggest the studio clean one, no effects

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Swipe to the right it gives you the chance to monitor and which one to record

In the settings and advanced settings you can also select multi track recording

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select The loop - you can add drum loops and apple loops etc. But select your files tab and whatever is on your device you can browse - here you see it likes m4a and mp3, not aac weirdly (this is an ipad)

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Drag it into a track line and chop and match to zero or wherever you want it to start

bingo - play and record alongside a track

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Hope his helps

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1 minute ago, Cuzzie said:

How did you get on with this?

Itā€™s taken endless hours cuzzieĀ but Iā€™m getting there, I can import tracks now and record over them yay šŸ˜€, Iā€™m now going through all the settings and bar lengths , Iā€™m quite enjoying it , itā€™s a new learning curveĀ 

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1 minute ago, Cuzzie said:

Good man - if you can work Garageband then if you want to go full DAW Logic is very similar and of course has loads more šŸ¤˜šŸ¾šŸ‘ŠšŸ¾šŸ’ŖšŸ¾šŸ‘ŒšŸ¾šŸ‘šŸ¾

Cheers, Iā€™ll stick with GarageBand for the moment, but Iā€™ll take a look at Logic, I tried AmpliTube before that, but gB seems simplerĀ 

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