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Welcome to the Garritan Personal Orchestra - GarageBand tutorial. This will breifly describe how to get the beautiful sounds of GPO up and running with GarageBand. GarageBand
Tutorial B.J. Morgan, has authored an awesome tutorial on the topic of using Native Instruments products with Apple's GarageBand software that originally appeared at Macjams.com. Many users have wondered how it might be possible to use GPO with GarageBand and this tutorial shows how to do it. Coincidentaly B.J. assisted John Alexander in the set up of Garritan Personal Orchestra at the Museum of Making Music. Thanks to Kevin Rix for providing the screenshots and Alan Lastufka for designing this page. To learn more about the Garritan Personal Orchestra, visit www.personalorchestra.com. This is a no-frills, straightforward guide to creating and organizing Native Instrument's software products, and in particular Garritan Personal Orchestra, within GarageBand.
Before launching GarageBand, we'll want to do a little housekeeping. This step isn't necessary, but I like to keep my Native Instrument presets separate from Apple's Software Instruments. First create some folders (one for each of your Native Instruments). You can name them "Garritan" or "GPO" Now place your new folders in the following location on your hard drive: My Computer => Library => Application Support => GarageBand => Instrument Library => Track Settings => Software This allows GarageBand to store our NI presets in a separate category. NOTE: Currently, GarageBand will not recognize any directories past this one, so don't put any folders within your Native Instrument category folder. Did you get all that? Creating Native Instruments Presets Creating NI Presets it relatively easy. In a new or existing project, create a software instrument if none are available. It doesn't matter what the instrument is, as we'll be modifying its properties shortly. Once you've created the Software instrument, select it and get the track info. This can be done by typing Command-I or selecting "Show Track Info..." under the "Track" menu item. Expand the "Details" information at the bottom of the Track Info Window. To access our Native Instruments, we want to use the pull down "Generator" menu and select our particular Native Instrument. [See Fig 1, below.]
Now click on the "Edit..." icon (designated by a pencil). Our GPO interface comes up. At this point we can select our preset, but there is one outstanding issue that makes this a bit of a challenge... See the large block of graphic "empty space" at the bottom of our Native Instrument console? This unacknowledged bug makes it so that we can't click directly on our GUI elements to manipulate them. Instead, we'll have to click slightly below (about 50-70 pixels) each element to change settings. [SEE Fig. 2& Fig. 3, below].
Once you've selected your preset, close the Native Instrument console window. At this point we can assign Effects, Custom Icons, Echo, Reverb and the like to our Native Instrument.** If you created a folder to organize your NI presets, navigate to it in the Track Info window. Select "Save Instrument" and name your NI preset whatever you'd like (HINT: It's a good idea to name it after the actual preset on your Native Instrument). Then load the instruments you need:
You can set up the rest of your Native Instrument presets the same way... http://www.garritan.com/ | http://www.nativeinstruments.com/
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