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Pete! Good sir, I had done this to great success in the past.. I moved and am finally behind the iPad again and now I can't seem to make this trick for the drums work.. did something change in an update??? I'm so bummed out lol
It is also possible to do this trick in an already made project, just make sure to have all other tracks above the audio track, except for the drummer track you want to turn into a regular midi track, then do the copy part of the audio clip and drummer track, delete the drummer track, and create two or more blank midi or drum tracks, make sure the play marker is at the beginning, and tap the blank part of the audio track, and tap the paste that pops up, the drummer track data should now be pasted on to one of the blank midi/drum tracks that you created.
I may be missing a couple of steps but I do have a couple of questions. 1: when you say to “copy the part of the audio clip,” do you mean the drummer track that you want to have copied and that is already placed? And 2: I put the drummer track on top of all the audio tracks, copied the first drummer track that was placed down in a separate region. Then pasted it in the drummer track that is above the other audio tracks, but it didn’t show up as a midi instead it literally just copy and pasted the previous track from before. Is there anything I’m missing?also let me know if you need clarification
I’ve been experimenting with a few different ways to change and augment the GB drummer, but this is a real game-changer. Many thanks to Binnie for opening up this new world to us on iOS, and thanks to you Pete for spreading the word.
Yeah. I’ve done it a few times now and it’s easier every time. Just keep that dummy audio track handy. You can even then bring the drums back in to the original project.
I put this idea on the back burner about two years ago.. I remember you doing a tutorial on it so I figured I’d give it another try..following complete instructions this time..thanks again Pete..it really worked this time
@@PeteJohnsMusic it surely is. Now if you watch one of my videos at hit the pause exactly at 2’19” in you’ll are why I have a great deal of apps to get to grips with in my fledgling channel. ua-cam.com/video/ITWhIYK6iak/v-deo.html Cheers. Lee
That is really cool! So as well as individual levels and EQ you can add individual FX and even change out drums from different kits! Thanks for this, Pete!
I got to try this. It will change my life if it works. GarageBand in my desktop allows the drummer tracks to convert to MIDI pretty easily, but I have never been able to figure out how to do it on my iPad in GarageBand IOS. I don’t usually use GarageBand on the desktop and prefer to open my iPad pieces right into Logic because that’s has more flexibility and better instrument samples. The GarageBand drummers have some pretty great groves you can tweak in, but there are always some cymbal accents I need or some other change to customize the drums for my songs. I have never known how to convert the drummers to MIDI so I can edit? Sometimes I like to break up the drums and cymbals to different tracks so I can EQ them separately, so this will save me a ton of time! Thanks! The problem is that I prefer to use my iPad GarageBand to write music on the fly, like a music notepad and it is amazing just how powerful and flexible GarageBand IOS actually is. I’ll play pieces for my wife from the iPad GarageBand and she says, “that was done on your iPad? It sounds finished.”. It’s that good, in a tiny iPad. Of course the real magic comes in Logic. I’m an old fart, who came up in music in the 70s and 80s, so to record a demo, you needed to book time in a multimillion dollar recording studio, with huge 4 inch tape and 20’ long mixing consoles. Now, you can nearly create a song as clean and vibrant as those millions of dollars worth of equipment could do? It’s just amazing to have a recording studio in a notepad.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, I like to say that we "live in the future" with all the tech we have these days! Hope you have fun having more flexibility with your drums.
Wow. Now i've learned two things today. :-) This still works on GB 2.3.11 by following these steps: i) Add an audio track to project with drummer in it, record a bar of whatever you want. ii) Select the audio track and the drummer track and copy them both by triggering the copy menu on the drummer track iii) Create a new project and add an audio track and record a bar of whatever you want iv) Add a midi drummer track... green not orange. v) set song length to automatic vi) click on the midi drummer track and paste = Midified drummer track, yay!
When you selected all of the bass drums and others using a rubber band to strike over the entire song, there’s an easier way to select every drum hit. If you just hit the bass drum button all the way to your left, it will quickly select every bass drum hit. The same with the snare, Tom’s, cymbals and hats. Just click their icon and all hits become highlighted. Then you can cut and paste them into a separate tracks. That part I did know how to do. I just couldn’t figure out how to convert the drummer groves into MIDI and ma so thankful to finally know how to. It was always possible in the desktop version, there was just no simple instructions for the IOS.
Just found out this a great way to transform Smart Guitar auto play patterns into other instruments as well! Used the method to paste a Smart Guitar track into a keyboard one and it works like a charm. Thank you!!
Thank you I like the virtual drummer but was annoyed that I couldnt change the levels of the individual sounds , now that is much easier and possible 👍
Wow, it was fun.. I was looking for a way to do that but on the computer version.. so this just gave me the idea of trying to copy paste from virtual drummer to basic drummer area.. it WORKED perfectly and I don't know why I didn't try that earlier.. But just thaaanks 🙏
You are full of interesting tricks mate !! If one day i get garageband and a mac i will be fully aware what to use !! you are precious pete !! i learnned so much on those new tools by listening to you .
Hey Pete! Thanks so much for all these videos you have created, I am a big Garageband user fan for it's lofi sound and user friendly platform & your videos have saved me time and time again when I get a bit stuck. Super helpful community you have created! Garageband should give you a job haha 🙏 Keep up the good work!
Great trick! Saw this video a while back and didn’t comment, but I am commenting now to tell EVERYONE: you can use this trick to convert smart drums into editable midi too! I don’t often use them, but once I did, and it records as midi but you can’t edit! This trick also works on them.
@@PeteJohnsMusic I’ll keep that in mind, very true, it’ll keep its quality with a bit of compression, rather than just normalizing it and making it to much to process in the end!
The revised Aemyn method worked to a point running the latest version of GB on an 2021 iPad Pro (I tried multiple times using the original Binnie method, but never able to get either MIDI or audio data to come across and tracks were blank after I hit paste). While I was able to get the MIDI data to populate using the Aemyn method, the rhythm/beats from the original GaragaBand drummer did not translate accurately to the MIDI tracks. I used the "Gavin" - Skinny Tie GB drummer and tried a bunch of different MIDI kits to try and at least match the sound of the MIDI drums tracks ("Bluebird" seemed to sound the closest). I also used some 1/8th and 1/16th note "light swing" on specific sections of the GB pattern and tried quantizing those sections in the MIDI converted kit accordingly, but it didn't have the same feel and the MIDI version was heavily quantized overall (and again, some of the beats were missing and/or out of place). I guess if wanted to try and get a closer MIDI version of the GB Drummer, I would need to slice up the audio from the GB drummer to isolate the individual drums/percussion pieces on separate rack as much possible and then use this as a reference to edit the MIDI data drums on separate tracks to match. At best, in my experience with this particular GB drummer track, the conversion represents a starting point at best. I do appreciate that it does this at all which is still pretty great!
@@PeteJohnsMusic In order to get 100% accurate MIDI data translation of a Drummer track created in Garageband, I import the project into Logic and use the "Convert to MIDI Region" command. Logic will also let you switch it back with "Convert to Drummer Region". If only they would add this feature to Garageband (clearly Drummer tracks are designed to work this way).
Nice work Pete (and Binnie)! 👍👍👍 An extremely useful capability has finally made its way from the Mac version of GB to iOS - well, kind of anyway. We’ll take it! 😄
...and by 3:18, I went to try it, and it works. This is so ‘back door’, it reminds me of that thing where US govt agents used to be able to trick any petrol pump into dispensing petrol without paying. Someone buried that for their own convenience, now get ready for it’s removal, because someone uses this to rip a load of Apple drum patterns. It won’t be me, I’m just glad to be able to tweak them. Bluebird is a good kit choice, you probably know, because it has at least got a drum element everywhere there’s a midi entry. The empty/extra drum slots in ‘edit’ now make sense, it’s for this sort of purpose. Good one, Binnie or whomever, and thanks for sharing Pete - for however long it’s allowed to work! Ok, curiosity sated, I continue to watch...!
Awesome, super helpful... been wishing I could do this for ages! Actually remember you bemoaning the fact you didn’t have a method of doing this in iOS in an earlier video, so a great tip from your friend 👌🏻✌🏻 Now I’m going to have to re-edit all my tracks from last year though 😅
Invaluable trick! I've been needing this for a long time and had no idea how to do it. I wonder why it's apparently undocumented... for what little documentation there is anyway! Thanks!
@@PeteJohnsMusic yes pete I being subscribed to ur channel a few month ago already all ur videos are a good help for me thanks and keep making many more helpful videos thanks again.
You’re very welcome my friend. I hope you get value from the other videos here on the channel and consider subscribing. 👍 And big shout out to Binnie who discovered this method.
Thank you!!!!! I had to add several tracks before it would work, but I think that might correlate to how far down the track was in my original session.
Yup, agree Marc! A bit like the flexible tempo. It’s clearly possible but they only let you do it via Music Memos. I fear they may “fix” this “bug” soon though...
@@PeteJohnsMusic it means I can get a cool track going that follows what I’ve played. Then export the midi so I can use it in EZDrummer on my laptop!!!! The world just opened up a bit 😂
Alas not really. There are some third party apps that can do it but not natively within GarageBand. I’m working on an option for this and will share if I can find an easy way to do it.
@@PeteJohnsMusic only option I can think of is to put each drum into its own track. Then either treat them in the app or even export them all as separate audio files and mess around with them with plugins, even use drumagog maybe in Auria. But.... that’s a lot of work and takes away from the brilliant simplicity of GB. I think I’ll carry on with just what you’ve shown us above 😂😂
With macos GB there is an easier way. Copy a section of a virtual drummer, paste it in an instrument track (it'll appear as MIDI notes but sound weird). Copy the section again, this time from the instrument track, select a drummer track and paste it there. Now it's editable as MIDI ;-)
Hey Pete, thanks for sharing the amazing tip! As of October 6 2023, it still works! 😀 I have a question: I liked one particular drummer sounds (Leah). Where can I find Leah’s drumset sounds on Garageband? I want to be able to individually master each individual element of the set (e.g., bass box, snare, shaker etc.), but I can’t seem to find this option. I don’t really like the sound of my beat in other libraries of Beat Sequencer. Thanks in advance! 👍
Howdy! So there was a list of son the drummers and their kits in the past, but they’ve added so many I haven’t kept up! Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord. Or even the GarageBand Users Facebook group?
Hey Pete I can’t seem to get it to work on iPhone GarageBand :( EDIT: IT WORKS, GarageBand God Pete comes through again with another game changing trick!
Hey Pete love your channel . I want to thank you for all your help with garageband. I have used this technique with some basic drum parts and it worked great. On my last project, i had more complex editing in the virtual drummer. For some reason it refuses to paste the files to the new project so I can’t get the midi files. Any idea why this is happening? keep up the great work,
Not sure sorry. Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord.
Thanks Pete. After watching the link you provided in your vid, I tried opening many more drum tracks before pasting. then it pasted. ( 5 tracks ). After this I placed the midi in my original project and started getting bad artifacts on other channels. I thing I'm pushing my Ipad air with the M1 chip a liitle too hard. I'm running multiple guitar syms a well as midi. What is the maximum number of tracks you've been able to run in Garageband IOS ? Thanks for replying. Your channel has helped me so much in undrstanding and using Garageband to make much better recordings and songs. Thank you ! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK !
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Brilliant! I tested the strings, bass and guitars as well... Success! Kudos to you and Binnie, Pete!👍🏻
Pete! Good sir, I had done this to great success in the past.. I moved and am finally behind the iPad again and now I can't seem to make this trick for the drums work.. did something change in an update??? I'm so bummed out lol
It is also possible to do this trick in an already made project, just make sure to have all other tracks above the audio track, except for the drummer track you want to turn into a regular midi track, then do the copy part of the audio clip and drummer track, delete the drummer track, and create two or more blank midi or drum tracks, make sure the play marker is at the beginning, and tap the blank part of the audio track, and tap the paste that pops up, the drummer track data should now be pasted on to one of the blank midi/drum tracks that you created.
Cool.
Can you upload a Video of that trick please🙏
I may be missing a couple of steps but I do have a couple of questions. 1: when you say to “copy the part of the audio clip,” do you mean the drummer track that you want to have copied and that is already placed? And 2: I put the drummer track on top of all the audio tracks, copied the first drummer track that was placed down in a separate region. Then pasted it in the drummer track that is above the other audio tracks, but it didn’t show up as a midi instead it literally just copy and pasted the previous track from before. Is there anything I’m missing?also let me know if you need clarification
No need to have tracks in any particular position for the copy. It works no matter what is above or below the drummer track.
This may be the method I'm missing.. I'm going to try this first thing in the morning. Thank you Ponk and Pete! I appreciate the advice here!
I’ve been experimenting with a few different ways to change and augment the GB drummer, but this is a real game-changer. Many thanks to Binnie for opening up this new world to us on iOS, and thanks to you Pete for spreading the word.
Agree. Genius method here from Binnie. No idea how he found this hack!!
Watched this so many times. In my tutorial play list👍
Awesome. Check out my newer tutorials here. ua-cam.com/play/PLc8Xg_23Wa55j3UulZLSxlchHTPM2us2H.html&si=n_loKXxWsrWi2Hpx
Amazing. Thanks Pete, Binnie, Anders, Kyle, Logan...
The lads represented well in this one didn’t they??
Strange, beautiful, and useful!
👍😎🙏
That is a bit of a work around but glad it works! I have been wanting to do that for a while. Thanks pal!
Yeah. I’ve done it a few times now and it’s easier every time. Just keep that dummy audio track handy. You can even then bring the drums back in to the original project.
Fantastic Pete! Always wanted to do this but never knew how. I learn something new from you every day! Thanks
Such a cool hack isn’t it. Full credit to Binnie for discovering this workaround
I put this idea on the back burner about two years ago.. I remember you doing a tutorial on it so I figured I’d give it another try..following complete instructions this time..thanks again Pete..it really worked this time
Awesome to hear Bruce. Glad it helped.
That's genius! Kudos to @BinnieSandu for discovering this and to you @PeteJohns for demonstrating so well.
Absolutely. Genius little hack from Binnie.
Oh man! This is awesome. You are a GarageBand guru
Cheers. But once again credit to the awesome Binnie who came up with try the method.
This, with the Strings/Keys hack, are the coolest I've seen in YEARS !! Kudos 👍🏻🤘🏻
Cheers but the real credit goes to the community. It’s you folks who find this stuff - I just share it! 🤘😎
I have been trying to do this for bloody hours. I wanted roses acoustic drums to become electric and it worked omggg yayayyayayaya thank you
Noice!! 🤘😎
Thanks Pete - killer!
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My man, you don’t have an idea how much I’ve been struggling with this issue.... thx and rock on!
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Excellent Pete. Can't wait to use it. Cheers. Lee
It’s super cool isn’t it??
@@PeteJohnsMusic it surely is. Now if you watch one of my videos at hit the pause exactly at 2’19” in you’ll are why I have a great deal of apps to get to grips with in my fledgling channel. ua-cam.com/video/ITWhIYK6iak/v-deo.html Cheers. Lee
Oh and I gave you a credit at the end of my first video...
Wow, thanks Pete!!!
Very welcome my friend. I hope you get value from the other videos on the channel and consider subscribing if you haven’t already. 👍
You have everything I need!!!
😎👍
Pete thanks so much mate!
Very welcome my friend.
Incredible.... Wow.
Thank you, Pete, Vinny, Benny, Leah, and Kyle!
😎🤘🤘
That is really cool! So as well as individual levels and EQ you can add individual FX and even change out drums from different kits! Thanks for this, Pete!
Yup. The possibilities here are endless now!
I got to try this. It will change my life if it works. GarageBand in my desktop allows the drummer tracks to convert to MIDI pretty easily, but I have never been able to figure out how to do it on my iPad in GarageBand IOS.
I don’t usually use GarageBand on the desktop and prefer to open my iPad pieces right into Logic because that’s has more flexibility and better instrument samples.
The GarageBand drummers have some pretty great groves you can tweak in, but there are always some cymbal accents I need or some other change to customize the drums for my songs. I have never known how to convert the drummers to MIDI so I can edit?
Sometimes I like to break up the drums and cymbals to different tracks so I can EQ them separately, so this will save me a ton of time! Thanks!
The problem is that I prefer to use my iPad GarageBand to write music on the fly, like a music notepad and it is amazing just how powerful and flexible GarageBand IOS actually is. I’ll play pieces for my wife from the iPad GarageBand and she says, “that was done on your iPad? It sounds finished.”. It’s that good, in a tiny iPad. Of course the real magic comes in Logic.
I’m an old fart, who came up in music in the 70s and 80s, so to record a demo, you needed to book time in a multimillion dollar recording studio, with huge 4 inch tape and 20’ long mixing consoles. Now, you can nearly create a song as clean and vibrant as those millions of dollars worth of equipment could do? It’s just amazing to have a recording studio in a notepad.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, I like to say that we "live in the future" with all the tech we have these days! Hope you have fun having more flexibility with your drums.
Wow. Now i've learned two things today. :-)
This still works on GB 2.3.11 by following these steps:
i) Add an audio track to project with drummer in it, record a bar of whatever you want.
ii) Select the audio track and the drummer track and copy them both by triggering the copy menu on the drummer track
iii) Create a new project and add an audio track and record a bar of whatever you want
iv) Add a midi drummer track... green not orange.
v) set song length to automatic
vi) click on the midi drummer track and paste
= Midified drummer track, yay!
And... this also works for Guitars too!
Oh cool! Thanks for the additional info.
When you selected all of the bass drums and others using a rubber band to strike over the entire song, there’s an easier way to select every drum hit. If you just hit the bass drum button all the way to your left, it will quickly select every bass drum hit. The same with the snare, Tom’s, cymbals and hats. Just click their icon and all hits become highlighted. Then you can cut and paste them into a separate tracks.
That part I did know how to do. I just couldn’t figure out how to convert the drummer groves into MIDI and ma so thankful to finally know how to. It was always possible in the desktop version, there was just no simple instructions for the IOS.
Oh cool! That's an excellent time saver and great tip that I'm going to include in a future video.
So helpful!!!! Thanks so much
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I have definitely, been a subscriber for a while now!!
Thanks, this video was really helpful!
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I spent hours wondering if there is a way...brilliant. Thanks so much.
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That’s awesome 👏 Can now dial up the reverb on the snare or other drums separately from the rest of the kit, or many other possibilities. Cool stuff.
Totally right ?!
thank you very much.... so helpful
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I should be asleep, but I'm up learning new things. 😂
Always fun isn’t it?
Thanks!
Thanks so much for the donation. You are awesome! 🙌
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Thanks to you I was able to fix my files! Bless your heart Pete johns!
Nice one! Glad to hear my friend. 👍😎
@@PeteJohnsMusic 👌 😎
Just found out this a great way to transform Smart Guitar auto play patterns into other instruments as well! Used the method to paste a Smart Guitar track into a keyboard one and it works like a charm. Thank you!!
Oh cool! Yeah that’s a nice tip too.
Thanks for this! For some reason I’m most comfortable recording in Garage Band. But these secret value added hacks add so many creative possibilities.
Right?! I love hacking the limitations. So much fun!
GREAT news! Thank you and Binnie. Man, I love those GB-workarounds. 👍👍👍👋
Such fun isn’t it?! The GarageBand hacks are the best.
This is starting to make a difference with my tracks. Splitting them out allows for more clarity when mixing.
Totally! Glad to hear it my friend.
Thank you I like the virtual drummer but was annoyed that I couldnt change the levels of the individual sounds , now that is much easier and possible 👍
Right?! Adds a heap of flexibility.
I was literally just wondering if you could do this exact thing! Right on Pete!
Pretty cool huh?
Wow, it was fun.. I was looking for a way to do that but on the computer version.. so this just gave me the idea of trying to copy paste from virtual drummer to basic drummer area.. it WORKED perfectly and I don't know why I didn't try that earlier..
But just thaaanks 🙏
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Pete, this tip is gold and still works just as you described here. Thanks! 👍🏻
Nice one Rick!!
You are full of interesting tricks mate !!
If one day i get garageband and a mac i will be fully aware what to use !!
you are precious pete !! i learnned so much on those new tools by listening to you .
Thanks my friend. Appreciate the kind words.
Nice workaround! So many possibilities with this! Thanks
Super cool isn’t it?
This is gold now I can finally get a better sound on the drums that drummer creates
It’s the best of both worlds. The cool fills and ghost notes that Drummer provides coupled with the flexibility of editing and separate tracks.
@@PeteJohnsMusic ain’t that the truth and that means so much to us that wanted logic x on an iPad
Another awesome video Pete. Thanks to you and all your colleagues.
Thanks so much Larry. 👍
@@PeteJohnsMusic You're welcome Pete. Your videos always brighten up our days.
thank you pete you always have our backs! so excited i can finally mix each drum track seperately :)
Pretty cool ain’t it?!
Wow! This is a hidden gem inside GarageBand! Thanks for sharing this tip, Pete.
Probably a “bug” technically... one I hope they don’t fix!!
Hey Pete! Thanks so much for all these videos you have created, I am a big Garageband user fan for it's lofi sound and user friendly platform & your videos have saved me time and time again when I get a bit stuck. Super helpful community you have created! Garageband should give you a job haha 🙏 Keep up the good work!
Awesome stuff. Thanks for taking the time to let me know.
Great trick! Saw this video a while back and didn’t comment, but I am commenting now to tell EVERYONE: you can use this trick to convert smart drums into editable midi too! I don’t often use them, but once I did, and it records as midi but you can’t edit! This trick also works on them.
Nice one! I hope this is still working today, as have had reports that it's been clunky since recents updates.
Yup. Just tested today that’s what I commented! 😁
@@Peter-bs3qx tried it today, by nov 22 it still works
Awesome your definitely the GarageBand guru Pete
Cheers Bruce.
As usual, you're a life saver, Pete! Thanks for this!!
Very welcome my friend. Glad it helped.
I had come across a video showing how to do this in OS...Nice to know we can continue to count on you for our iOS needs! LOL Thanks again, Pete!
Pretty handy it will be me thinks!!
@@PeteJohnsMusic I haven't had a chance to try it out yet... I trust that it'll work in the iPhone the way it did with your iPad??
Damn I’ve been searching for this. Thanks Pete.
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Very cool video!
Thanks.
Great video, Pete. Also, awesome finding Binnie.
Agree. Binnie is the king!!!
Great tip Pete and Binnie! This will come in very useful. Thanks!
I’m thinking so too. I’ve always wanted to do this.
This is amazing. Can’t believe it works on iOS Garageband. Thank you so much👍👍
Pretty darn cool isn’t it?
Thanks Pete! You have provided the missing link!
Excellent! Glad it helped.
Thank you for this, wasn’t quite what I was looking for, but same idea, I wanted to convert it to audio without merging it
Hmmmm.... I guess exporting and re-importing as a WAV file would be best for that?
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@@PeteJohnsMusic I’ll keep that in mind, very true, it’ll keep its quality with a bit of compression, rather than just normalizing it and making it to much to process in the end!
The revised Aemyn method worked to a point running the latest version of GB on an 2021 iPad Pro (I tried multiple times using the original Binnie method, but never able to get either MIDI or audio data to come across and tracks were blank after I hit paste). While I was able to get the MIDI data to populate using the Aemyn method, the rhythm/beats from the original GaragaBand drummer did not translate accurately to the MIDI tracks. I used the "Gavin" - Skinny Tie GB drummer and tried a bunch of different MIDI kits to try and at least match the sound of the MIDI drums tracks ("Bluebird" seemed to sound the closest). I also used some 1/8th and 1/16th note "light swing" on specific sections of the GB pattern and tried quantizing those sections in the MIDI converted kit accordingly, but it didn't have the same feel and the MIDI version was heavily quantized overall (and again, some of the beats were missing and/or out of place). I guess if wanted to try and get a closer MIDI version of the GB Drummer, I would need to slice up the audio from the GB drummer to isolate the individual drums/percussion pieces on separate rack as much possible and then use this as a reference to edit the MIDI data drums on separate tracks to match. At best, in my experience with this particular GB drummer track, the conversion represents a starting point at best. I do appreciate that it does this at all which is still pretty great!
Yeah. I need to revisit this. I wish it was simpler!!
@@PeteJohnsMusic In order to get 100% accurate MIDI data translation of a Drummer track created in Garageband, I import the project into Logic and use the "Convert to MIDI Region" command. Logic will also let you switch it back with "Convert to Drummer Region". If only they would add this feature to Garageband (clearly Drummer tracks are designed to work this way).
This was gold Pete. And I’ll go and give Binnie a like 👍 too. 🇦🇺
Yep, 100%. Binnie is a legend.
This is great. Thanx alot Pete!🙏
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That’s a very useful trick, thank you very much, Pete!
Very welcome my friend. Great concept from Binmie here’
Brilliant. Had to test it out immediately
Pretty gosh darn awesome ain’t it?
@@PeteJohnsMusic yep!!
Oh boy! Whay I didn't came here earlier?
Welcome aboard! Glad to have you here.
Hey pete i remember watching you when you had 1000 subs
Thanks for continuing to support me. 👍😎
Nice work Pete (and Binnie)! 👍👍👍 An extremely useful capability has finally made its way from the Mac version of GB to iOS - well, kind of anyway. We’ll take it! 😄
Right?!?! 😄
Great. Another game changing tutorial. Thank you, Pete!
Isn’t this little hack awesome? Much love to Binnie for the methodz
Great video, great tip. And it even works copying into a keys track...
Yeah? Very cool. I’ll have to experiment even more with this.
Thanks. This helped me out quite a bit. Cheers!
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...and by 3:18, I went to try it, and it works. This is so ‘back door’, it reminds me of that thing where US govt agents used to be able to trick any petrol pump into dispensing petrol without paying. Someone buried that for their own convenience, now get ready for it’s removal, because someone uses this to rip a load of Apple drum patterns. It won’t be me, I’m just glad to be able to tweak them. Bluebird is a good kit choice, you probably know, because it has at least got a drum element everywhere there’s a midi entry. The empty/extra drum slots in ‘edit’ now make sense, it’s for this sort of purpose. Good one, Binnie or whomever, and thanks for sharing Pete - for however long it’s allowed to work! Ok, curiosity sated, I continue to watch...!
Yeah, let’s wait for GarageBand version 2.3.11 for it to be removed right? 🤨
Game changer there! Thanks so much for sharing👍
Very welcome Chandlers! Finally got back to reply to this one after I released your account from the Studio Live Today prison! 😄
🤯 this is awesome. Thanks for the video!
You’re very welcome. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. And big thanks to my friend Binnie for sharing the original method.
Thanks, Pete. Another useful tip. I will try this out...
It is indeed super useful already in my experience.
Awesome, super helpful... been wishing I could do this for ages! Actually remember you bemoaning the fact you didn’t have a method of doing this in iOS in an earlier video, so a great tip from your friend 👌🏻✌🏻 Now I’m going to have to re-edit all my tracks from last year though 😅
Haha!!! I hear you. I literally responded to a comment saying “no you can’t do this” just this week.
Invaluable trick! I've been needing this for a long time and had no idea how to do it. I wonder why it's apparently undocumented... for what little documentation there is anyway! Thanks!
Ya….. hopefully it’s still working? I’ve heard they may have “fixed” this.
Thanks for the awesome tip. Should make those loud crashes a little more balanced in the mix. Thanks again!
Hopefully it still works. Had some reports that they “fixed” this “bug”. 🤦🏻♂️
@@PeteJohnsMusic yes, it still worked. Some weird notes that had no sound in the edit window, but everything else worked.
You the best Pete 👌
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@@PeteJohnsMusic yes pete I being subscribed to ur channel a few month ago already all ur videos are a good help for me thanks and keep making many more helpful videos thanks again.
Wow wonderful thank sir frm nepal 🇳🇵
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And big shout out to Binnie who discovered this method.
Thank you!!!!! I had to add several tracks before it would work, but I think that might correlate to how far down the track was in my original session.
Yeah right? Glad you got it happening.
Very cool workaround 😃
Binnie is the man! Hope they don’t “fix” this in the next version! 🤨
@@PeteJohnsMusic exactly what I was thinking. But apple seem to take forever to fix stuff, so hopefully we’ll be safe for a while
Soo helpful!! Thank you Pete :)
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This proves that GB iOS has that possibility, just like GB Mac. Apple just makes us jump through hoops to do it. That's my opinion anyway.
Yup, agree Marc! A bit like the flexible tempo. It’s clearly possible but they only let you do it via Music Memos.
I fear they may “fix” this “bug” soon though...
@@PeteJohnsMusic Either that or that’s the shape of things to come... 🤔
This is awesome! Good video and find. Gonna try this now
It’s a bit of a game changer as I love Drummer but sometimes just want to tweak a fill or add an extra kick. Now I can!
@@PeteJohnsMusic it totally works pete. Thank you so much. Definitely a game changer for sure! So excited. It’s inspiring too.
Whoa!!!!
I’ve been dreaming about being able to do this 😂😂
Nice one Pete
Pretty cool ain’t it??
@@PeteJohnsMusic it means I can get a cool track going that follows what I’ve played. Then export the midi so I can use it in EZDrummer on my laptop!!!!
The world just opened up a bit 😂
@@PeteJohnsMusic it’s ace. The only snag is I can’t find a way to copy the midi to outside of GB. Is that possible at all?
Alas not really. There are some third party apps that can do it but not natively within GarageBand. I’m working on an option for this and will share if I can find an easy way to do it.
@@PeteJohnsMusic only option I can think of is to put each drum into its own track. Then either treat them in the app or even export them all as separate audio files and mess around with them with plugins, even use drumagog maybe in Auria. But.... that’s a lot of work and takes away from the brilliant simplicity of GB.
I think I’ll carry on with just what you’ve shown us above 😂😂
Not all heroes wear capes
Binnie was the real hero on this one. 🦸
that’s amazing
this is gonna help lots 👍
Right? Genius method from Binnie here.
With macos GB there is an easier way. Copy a section of a virtual drummer, paste it in an instrument track (it'll appear as MIDI notes but sound weird). Copy the section again, this time from the instrument track, select a drummer track and paste it there. Now it's editable as MIDI ;-)
Nice. Yes, a lot of things are indeed a little easier on a Mac.
Really cool and useful!
It’s a bit of a game changer I think!
Thank you for this
Very welcome. And a big thanks to Bonnie for the original hack.
I didn't know! Very cool.
🤘😎
Thank you for this great little video - very helpful! :)
Cheers Tim. Always a pleasure my friend.
Bro how how did you guys even think to try this 😳🤯
Yeah, I hear you! I was blown away when folks told me about this and had no idea how they came across it.
Hello Pete. Just letting you know this “trick” still works. Figured you may want to know. Such a great option for more control over the drum track. 😎🤘
Yeah cool! Thanks had heard the at it was not working at some point. So glad it’s still a happening thing.
@@PeteJohnsMusic Sure thing. It works but had to do some editing. Totally worth the effort though.
Hey Pete, thanks for sharing the amazing tip! As of October 6 2023, it still works! 😀 I have a question: I liked one particular drummer sounds (Leah). Where can I find Leah’s drumset sounds on Garageband?
I want to be able to individually master each individual element of the set (e.g., bass box, snare, shaker etc.), but I can’t seem to find this option. I don’t really like the sound of my beat in other libraries of Beat Sequencer. Thanks in advance! 👍
Howdy! So there was a list of son the drummers and their kits in the past, but they’ve added so many I haven’t kept up!
Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord. Or even the GarageBand Users Facebook group?
@@PeteJohnsMusic thanks so much, Pete, I'll look them up! 😁 Keep up the amazing work! 😀👍🔥
Hey Pete I can’t seem to get it to work on iPhone GarageBand :(
EDIT: IT WORKS, GarageBand God Pete comes through again with another game changing trick!
Nice!!
Great video dude. 👊🏾Do you think this method could work with wave files?
It doesn’t sorry because WAV files don’t have any MIDI information in them.
This is a nifty trick!
Watch though now that we know, Apple will release a “bug fix” for it
Yup. Waiting for that in the next update. 🤨
Hey Pete love your channel . I want to thank you for all your help with garageband. I have used this technique with some basic drum parts and it worked great. On my last project, i had more complex editing in the virtual drummer. For some reason it refuses to paste the files to the new project so I can’t get the midi files. Any idea why this is happening? keep up the great work,
Not sure sorry. Maybe ask over at the Create Record Release Facebook group at createrecordreleaae.com, or the Discord group here - studiolivetoday.com/discord.
Thanks Pete. After watching the link you provided in your vid, I tried opening many more drum tracks before pasting. then it pasted. ( 5 tracks ). After this I placed the midi in my original project and started getting bad artifacts on other channels. I thing I'm pushing my Ipad air with the M1 chip a liitle too hard. I'm running multiple guitar syms a well as midi. What is the maximum number of tracks you've been able to run in Garageband IOS ? Thanks for replying. Your channel has helped me so much in undrstanding and using Garageband to make much better recordings and songs. Thank you ! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK !
Thanks Binnie and Pete. Now I don’t need to go to GB on Mac to separate my drums. 🥁 😊
Pretty cool ain’t it.
That is awesome news!!
Great stuff isn’t it? My man Binnie is a legend.
@@PeteJohnsMusic I’ve tried it already. It takes getting used to.
It is really hard to do on the iPhone.
Probably easier to do this with an iPad and a mouse.