Okay, I have made a lot of different songs on garage band, and just realized there is no midi output. So I dont have any trumpets to use, because all the horns on garageband are crap. now, I've learned that there is a way to change the settings in garageband to use the normal 128 midi instruments, but the site I checked out said I needed a Midi controller, which I have, but dont have a midi-to-usb adapter.
Quoted directly from the site:
"First let’s attack composing for General MIDI in GB. A few of us already know that there are 126 General MIDI software instruments hidden within QuickTime. What if you could use them in GB? Well you can! I’ll try to make this as brief as possible so pay attention. If you open the Track info window for a software instrument in GB, you can scroll down the list of generators to the DLS Music Device. And if you click on the pencil icon for that device, it’ll bring up the interface for the DLS Device, such that it is.
Once there you will find a Sound bank menu that has a pull down menu that should say QuickTime Music Synthesizer by default. You may have some other items in this menu, if you have by chance come across some Sound Fonts in your travels, but I’ll get to these in a minute.
Right now let’s concentrate on the QuickTime Music Synthesizer (sounds sexy, doesn’t it?) If you were to play your MIDI controller at this point you would hear an acoustic Grand Piano. One that quite frankly sounds much worse than GB’s default Piano Software Instrument, but wait there’s more! The secret lies in your Midi controller’s program change command. Uh oh I hear brains frying. If you have a MIDI keyboard that’s worth any thing there is some way for you to do MIDI program changes. Which means you can change the Quicktime Music Synthesizer from its default piano sound to say something like a trumpet, which is sorely missed in the standard GB software instruments.
Read your keyboard’s documentation to see if your keyboard has a Program Change control. If it does your in luck. To overcome GarageBand’s glaring omission of a trumpet instrument, all we have to do is set our Program Change number to Number 57 and viola! Trumpet."
this is EXACTLY what I want to do, because i like Garageband's interface, but the instruments suck.
So basically, what I want to do is: Somehow do a Program Change Command in Garageband WITHOUT a physical midi controller, and without spending any money. If anyone can help out, that would be VERY VERY VERY appreciated.
Quoted directly from the site:
"First let’s attack composing for General MIDI in GB. A few of us already know that there are 126 General MIDI software instruments hidden within QuickTime. What if you could use them in GB? Well you can! I’ll try to make this as brief as possible so pay attention. If you open the Track info window for a software instrument in GB, you can scroll down the list of generators to the DLS Music Device. And if you click on the pencil icon for that device, it’ll bring up the interface for the DLS Device, such that it is.
Once there you will find a Sound bank menu that has a pull down menu that should say QuickTime Music Synthesizer by default. You may have some other items in this menu, if you have by chance come across some Sound Fonts in your travels, but I’ll get to these in a minute.
Right now let’s concentrate on the QuickTime Music Synthesizer (sounds sexy, doesn’t it?) If you were to play your MIDI controller at this point you would hear an acoustic Grand Piano. One that quite frankly sounds much worse than GB’s default Piano Software Instrument, but wait there’s more! The secret lies in your Midi controller’s program change command. Uh oh I hear brains frying. If you have a MIDI keyboard that’s worth any thing there is some way for you to do MIDI program changes. Which means you can change the Quicktime Music Synthesizer from its default piano sound to say something like a trumpet, which is sorely missed in the standard GB software instruments.
Read your keyboard’s documentation to see if your keyboard has a Program Change control. If it does your in luck. To overcome GarageBand’s glaring omission of a trumpet instrument, all we have to do is set our Program Change number to Number 57 and viola! Trumpet."
this is EXACTLY what I want to do, because i like Garageband's interface, but the instruments suck.
So basically, what I want to do is: Somehow do a Program Change Command in Garageband WITHOUT a physical midi controller, and without spending any money. If anyone can help out, that would be VERY VERY VERY appreciated.