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Amplitube Tones in GarageBand for iPad?

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fdnl13

Jun 1, 2011
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I love using GarageBand on my iPad2 to come up with song ideas. However, I prefer the amazing tones I get out of the Amplitube Fender app to those available in GarageBand. Has anyone figured out a way to get the killer Amplitube tones into GarageBand?

I've thought of recording a bass track to a click in Amplitube, exporting it, and importing it back into GarageBand (which, as of today, you can now do in GarageBand!). I'm just not sure I'll be able to place the imported bass track into GarageBand and have it stay perfectly synced.
 
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fdnl13 said:
I love using GarageBand on my iPad2 to come up with song ideas. However, I prefer the amazing tones I get out of the Amplitube Fender app to those available in GarageBand. Has anyone figured out a way to get the killer Amplitube tones into GarageBand?

I've thought of recording a bass track to a click in Amplitube, exporting it, and importing it back into GarageBand (which, as of today, you can now do in GarageBand!). I'm just not sure I'll be able to place the imported bass track into GarageBand and have it stay perfectly synced.
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That could be great to combine GB and Amplitube. But talking about recording, Amplitube on iPad is great and the recording studio app in Amplitube is impressive, BUT the click/ metronome will appear in the recorded track, so using click in amplitude during recording is useless! That is the biggest flaw of Amplitube. Ampkit have the same flaw but to lesser extent, and there are more options regarding click/ metronome in Ampkit. I would love IK multimedia to address that issue more than anything else.
 
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Duke21 said:
That could be great to combine GB and Amplitube. But talking about recording, Amplitube on iPad is great and the recording studio app in Amplitube is impressive, BUT the click/ metronome will appear in the recorded track, so using click in amplitude during recording is useless! That is the biggest flaw of Amplitube. Ampkit have the same flaw but to lesser extent, and there are more options regarding click/ metronome in Ampkit. I would love IK multimedia to address that issue more than anything else.
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the click becomes part of the recorded audio? if thats true, that program is completely useless.
 
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Then you are doing something wrong. Do you have a mic enabled? If you record directly into any recording program, your click should be able to be turned off. If not, you need to read the manual to see what it is you are doing wrong.

I am now starting to understand why people think recording stuff is hard, as there are problems like this that make most users scratch their heads, and I have never run into these things.
 
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kaputsport said:
Then you are doing something wrong. Do you have a mic enabled? If you record directly into any recording program, your click should be able to be turned off. If not, you need to read the manual to see what it is you are doing wrong.

I am now starting to understand why people think recording stuff is hard, as there are problems like this that make most users scratch their heads, and I have never run into these things.
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I really hope i do something wrong, but mic is off. I put the click on, go to the 8 track recorder, start the recorder, play, stop the recorder, turn off the click. But when I play the track a ghost of the click is present. The higher gain I use (i.e. Drive/ distortion) the worse it gets.
I also miss an option to control click volume, and even sound type. Could be nice to be able to choose snare or kick drum as click. Ampkit have these 2 options, but the ghost click on recorded track is there as well. GarageBand doesn't have this problem. I use iPad 1, and I've addressed this issue to IK.
 
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The (tedious) way to achieve this is, I believe, to export your GB track to iTunes, sync the iPad, import the iTunes track to Amplitube Songs, move to the 8-track recorder, record guitar on another track, mute all tracks except newly recorded guitar, export using file sharing to copy to Mac, import file to GB via iTunes sync, import track in GB.

I haven't tried this myself. The fact that one must use a Mac in the process is ridiculous. Copy and paste is the way to properly do it but it's not available in Amplitube. I hope they stick that in there.
 
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I just got the iRig. The device is nice but has serious crosstalk issues. This is due to the input and output being too close together. This, in fact renders the amplitube multitrack recorder useless...

I'm interested in hearing about any mitigations to this.

Yeah, turns out the iRig yields better results with Garage Band than with Amplitube - ik's own software.

How ironic and strange...

Here are 3 clips I did real quick today:

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