Tips for Using GarageBand Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools Instruments
The GarageBand Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools package contains over 100 Software Instrument presets you can use to create remixes in a variety of contemporary genres. In addition to synthesizer instruments, Remix Tools includes Software Instruments in the following categories: Drum kits, including kits based on classic Roland drum machines Keyboard instruments for creating chordal riffs and pads Sound Effects kits you can use for atmospheric effects and transitions This document describes the Drum Kit, Keyboard, and Sound Effects instruments included in Remix Tools, and lists controller information for each of these instruments.

Drum Kits

Remix Tools includes 22 drum kits, featuring both classic and contemporary drum sounds. In addition, you can modify the sound of each drum kit in real time using keyboard controllers, including the modulation (mod) wheel and pitch bend wheel. The following table lists controller information for the drum kits.
Drum Kit 2-Step Remix Big Beat Remix Breaks Remix Classic Hip Hop Remix Classic House Remix Drum N Bass Remix Electroclash Remix Euro Dance Remix Hard Techno Remix Hip Hop Remix Lo-Fi Remix Old School Funk Remix Paris House Remix RnB Remix Goa Remix Trance Remix Trip Hop Remix UK Garage Remix Controller Info Raising the mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. Moving the pitch bend wheel raises or lowers the pitch of many drum sounds (up to 3 octaves higher or lower), so you can change their pitch over time. You can control the maximum length of most drum sounds using the Release slider in the Generator editor window. Drag the slider left to create short, tight, punchy sounds, used in certain styles of music. When using the hi-hat drum sounds (notes F#1 and A#1 in most drum kits), playing one note will stop the sound of the previously played note, like closing a hi-hat with a foot pedal.

Roland Drum Kits

Many dance hits, in genres ranging from Hip Hop to House and from Euro to Trance, feature the sound of vintage Roland drum machines. Remix Tools includes drum kits that emulate four of the best-known Roland drum machines.
Drum Kit Roland CR-78 Kit Description Based on the CR-78 CompuRhythm, the worlds first user-programmable drum machine, a breakthrough from Roland. Based on the TR-606 Drumatix, the highly portable, analog little brother of the TR-808. Based on the TR-808 Rhythm Composer, the all-time favorite used in many hit songs from the 1980s on. Based on the TR-909 Rhythm Composer, the first Roland drum machine to combine analog and sampled sounds. Controller Information The mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. All Roland kits include drum kit sounds with alternate effects in the C1 to C1 note range. The TR-808 and TR-909 drum kits include alternate kick drum sounds in the C2 to C1 note range, and alternate snare drum sounds in the E5 to F7 note range.

Roland TR-606 Kit

Roland TR-808 Kit

Roland TR-909 Kit

Organization of Drum Kit Sounds
The sounds in the Remix Tools drum kits are organized across the keyboard in the following general order: Notes below C0: Miscellaneous sounds relevant to the genre. Notes C0 to C1: Alternate drum kit sounds. Notes C1 to B2: Standard drum kit sounds, including kick drum, snare, hi-hats, ride cymbals, crash cymbals, and toms. Notes C3 to A#3: Basic Latin percussion, including bongo, congas, timbales and agogo. Notes B3 to D#5:More Latin and other exotic percussion, including triangle, wood block, claves, guiro, and cuica. Notes above D#5: Sound effects and other miscellaneous sounds.
Note: On most smaller music keyboards, you can access higher and lower octaves using the keyboards octave up and octave down controls. See the instructions that came with your keyboard.

Drum Kit Effects

Most Remix Tools drum kits include optional effects commonly applied to drum tracks in the kits genre. When you select the track with one of the drum kits, these effects appear in the Details area of the Track Info window, but are turned off. You can turn them on by clicking the checkbox next to each effect.

Keyboard Instruments

Many dance music styles feature keyboard instruments playing chordal riffs and stabs. Remix Tools includes nine new keyboard Software Instruments that give you a wide range of contemporary keyboard sounds. Each note plays a chord, making it easy to create characteristic chord progressions.
Instruments Detroit Overground Detroit Underground Energy Blasts Energy Stabs Description Short, bright filtered synth. Controller Info Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. Higher velocity increases volume. Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. Higher velocity increases attack and volume. Mod wheel adds panning and subtle detuning, simulating a rotating speaker. Higher velocity opens cutoff filter. Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. Higher velocity increases volume. Mod wheel abruptly gates the instruments volume, allowing you to perform rhythmic strobe effects. Higher velocity opens cutoff filter and increases volume. Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. Higher velocity increases volume. Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. Higher velocity increases volume.
Complex sound; sustained notes fade gradually.

Genius Chords Genuis Pad

Cool organ-like sound.
Glacier Melt Glacier Pad Heavenly Ascent Heavenly Chords Heavenly Gallup Heavenly Ricochet Lucid Chords Lucid Swirl Luscious Current Luscious Pad Velocity Chords Velocity Funk
Complex, vocal-like synth sound; sustained notes fade gradually. Very bright, modulating sawtoothwave synth sound.
Percussive piano-like sound, useful for short accented stabs or sustained chords. Rich, evolving vocal-like ambient sound.
Sharp, bright synth sound that fades Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. quickly. Higher velocity increases volume and brightness. Smooth pad sound with soft attack; sustained notes fade gradually. Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. Higher velocity increases volume.
Warm Glow Chords Warm Radiant Chords

Sound Effects

Todays remix and dance styles often make use of sound effects, particularly for atmospheric filler sounds and during breakdowns. Remix Tools includes two instruments in a new Sound Effects instrument category. You play the Sound Effects instruments like the drum kits, with each note on your music keyboard giving you a unique sound.
Instrument Atmospheric FX Atmospheric Processor Atmospheric Strobe Atom Smasher Transition FX Transfigure Transmission Transoceanic Transporter Description Contains sounds you can layer over your beats and riffs to add atmosphere and mood. Controller Info Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. Higher velocity increases volume. Mod wheel closes the cutoff filter and increases resonance. Higher velocity increases volume.

Contains sounds suitable for use in transitions and breakdowns.
With the drum kits, keyboards, and sound effects instruments included in Remix Tools, you can easily create your own beats, breaks, and remixes in todays popular dance and urban music genres.
2004 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. GarageBand is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. All visual and aural references to the CR-78, TR-606, TR-808, and TR-909 products, and all use of Roland trademarks are being made with written permission from Roland Corporation. Sound recordings for CR-78 Copyright 1978 Roland Corporation. Sound recordings for TR-808 Copyright 1980 Roland Corporation. Sound recordings for TR-606 Copyright 1981 Roland Corporation. Sound recordings for TR-909 Copyright 1983 Roland Corporation. 019-0233-A