Mar 09, 2011  GarageBand turns your iPad, and iPhone into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. And with Live Loops, it makes it easy for anyone to have fun creating music like a DJ. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play keyboards, guitars, and create beats. May 28, 2015  GarageBand for Mac comes with plenty of sounds, but you can make it even better with these fantastic free plugins. The 16 best free GarageBand plugins. But lay it on top of a flat drum. Using third‑party external musical instruments with GarageBand requires devices made for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The Alchemy synth is available on iPhone 6 or later, iPad Pro, iPad (5th generation), iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 4. Multitrack recording requires a compatible third‑party audio interface. For users of Garageband for iPad, you’ll need to import any apple loops that you download using iTunes. Free Garageband Drum Fills Garageband drum fills are often the glue that holds a beat together.

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GarageBand User Guide for iPad

Using the Drums Touch Instrument, you can play a drum kit simply by tapping the onscreen drums. You can choose either an acoustic or electronic drum kit.

Choose a drum kit

• Tap the name of the drum kit at the top of the screen, then tap the drum kit you want to play. You can also swipe left or right to change to the previous or next drum kit.

  Acoustic drum kits show a realistic-looking set of drums, and electronic drum kits show a grid of drum pads.

  You can access an acoustic or electronic drum kit directly from the browser by tapping Acoustic Drums or Electronic Drums.

Play the drums in the drum kit

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• Tap the onscreen drums (for electronic kits, drum pads).

  Some drums, such as the hi-hat and snare drum, make different sounds when you tap different parts of them. To see which sounds they make, tap the Info button to show the coaching tips. Some drums also respond to other gestures.

  Touching and holding a drum with two (or more) fingers plays a repeating pattern. By changing the distance between your fingers, you can make the repeats faster or slower. Moving a finger up or down makes the repeats play louder or softer.

Record a drum groove

1. Tap the Record button in the control bar.

2. Tap the drums in the drum kit.

   You can record one or more drums at a time. When the playhead starts over from the beginning of the section, you can record another part and it will be merged with the existing parts. You can turn off merging in the Track controls.

3. When you finish, tap the Play button in the control bar to stop recording. Tap Play again to hear the drum groove.

Play the crash cymbal and bass drum together

By default, when you tap the crash cymbal on the acoustic drums kit, the bass drum plays together with the cymbal. You can set whether tapping the crash cymbal plays both sounds, or only the cymbal.

1. Tap the Track Controls button in the control bar, tap Track Settings, then tap Recording.

2. Tap the “Bass Drum with Cymbal” switch to turn it on or off.

Adjust the touch sensitivity of the drums

You can set the touch sensitivity for the drums to one of four levels. Increasing the touch sensitivity makes hits sound louder or softer depending on how hard you tap the drums. If you turn touch sensitivity off, all notes sound the same regardless of how hard you tap the drums.

1. Tap the Track Controls button in the control bar, tap Track Settings, then tap Velocity Sensitivity.

2. Tap the sensitivity level you want to use for the drums.

Save your own custom drum sounds

1. Modify an existing drum sound by adjusting the control knobs (for electronic drum kits only).

2. Tap the name of the drum kit at the top of the screen, then tap Save.

3. Type a name for your custom sound, then tap Done.

   The first time you save a custom sound, a new Custom category appears, with an icon for your sound. You can rename or delete the sound by tapping Edit, then tapping the icon (to rename the sound) or the red circle (to delete the sound).

Spoil yourself with Garageband Drum Loops

Here's a list of pages within the Macloops site that contain free Garageband drum loops. We've got a varied selection of musical genres and drumming styles that range from live, acoustic samples to electronic beats that have been sequenced and quantized to perfection. You just hit the Mother load of free Garageband drum loops. These .AIF Apple Loops load directly into Garageband and Logic with many genres.

To access the free downloads you'll need to sign up for a free Macloops account and become a member. Once you are logged in simply find any page that contains the download links, hit the social share buttons and reveal the downloadable content. It's that easy.

Drums In Garageband Ipad 2

Ready to find the drums you want? Ok, here is your list:

How to Download

It's dead easy to download our free Apple Loops. Once you've logged in, just visit any of these pages listed above and you should find a 'social share' box that displays three options to share the page. Click on your preferred social network and give our page a like or even better, recommend it your friends. Once you've done that the downloads will magically appear on the page and you'll see some big green 'download' buttons for each pack that we've got on offer.

Why do you have to social share the page? By sharing the page you're helping to spread the word about Macloops which allows us to keep the site a free resource. You do like 'free' don't you?

How to Install

You don't actually 'install the files as such, it's more a case of importing the audio files you download. For Garageband and Logic you simply drag and drop the .aif files you download into your loop browser. If you're an iPad user of Garageband you'll need to hook up your iPad to a computer and import the extracted .aif files via iTunes. It's kind of a faff but that's iOS for you.

Have Fun and Comment Below

We hope you have fun with the free Apple Loops you've download from Macloops. If you make any cool songs with the samples. feel free to post a comment below. Don't be hating or spamming, we'll just delete your comment and close your account. Keep it fund and friendly.