Getting Geek with Garageband: Creating Interesting and Unique Sound Loops

One of the things that is just a blast to do with Garageband Audio is to take old tired loops and samples, audio files and sound loops and completely destroy and manipulate them. The best part about it is that nothing is off limits. Use a drums loops as your rythmic motive, make the guitar melody or guitar loops your beat ..So, lets start engineering our way towards geekness. You’ll need to start with a sample sound, sound loop, sounds loops; whatever genre and style that moves you…..make sure that these are cleared loops; meaning that they are royalty-free and cleared to be used in compositions.

Check out some of the songs that were created with Garageband Audio’s Loops and Construction Kits
New Orleans

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Classic Rock

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So there are a billion ways to change up music adn sound loops. You can alter the pitch, use eq to change the sound, delay effects provide an extreme amount of variation and many, many more. You could use your drums loops and run them through a fuzz box or distortion pedal, run your piano loops through a massive verb and only output the mix of verb…ie. no direct sound. Use the settings you never use, the ones you think are going to be complete garbage usually turn out to be the most unique and memorable. The only limit here is your imagination; so don’t limit yourself…..think outside the box, be different, be unique. Remeber, one of the main ways to create authentic and unique music sound loops and soundscapes is to really focus on the “sounds, textures; ect” your creating. Were artists here and artists love colors…so should you. Expertiment, take a chance; color it up!!!

Another secret I’ve seen both Music Producers and Musicians alike do with great success is to combine effects. However, please be very carfeul when doing this as things can get out of control very quickly; but hey, this might turn out to be a great thing?

A real fun thing  I’ve done with a fare amount of succes is to import a movie file into to Garageband and use the video effects settings as your sound loops effects. Next you’ll need to get rid of the video and simply  use the video’s effects to manipulate and color the music loops and samples. You can get some truely bizarre stuff like this. This is a great way to start building cinescapes. Then you can start layering sounds upon sounds loops and go for the truely unique.

Remember, experimentation is the “key to creating  your own collection of unique and bizarre sounds. Start looking at the world like an artist and use musical colors to start creating unique masterpieces!!!