Garage Band Jam Packs

[lprostick]

Does anyone know of any virtual synths that can load up and play the virtual instruments of the Garage Band Jam Packs? The obvious application of this would be to be able to use Apple's Jam Pack instruments directly in a DP session. Sure, one could record tracks in DP, use Garage Band to record the parts that will require the Jam Pack instruments, and bring these tracks into DP, but it would be much less cumbersome to do it all in DP. Any thoughts?

[rikp]

Logic.

[willtompkins]

You could use something like Soundflower to route the audio output of Garageband into DP. I'm not quite sure about the MIDI info though. It's pretty stupid that you can't specify a certain MIDI device as an input to a GB track (at least not in v1.1). That way you could specify an input as the IAC bus and route your MIDI info from DP. Then again, that may work since GB seems to detect all MIDI devices on a global scale. I don't know, try it out and see what happens.

-Will

[billf]

Originally posted by lprostick:
Does anyone know of any virtual synths that can load up and play the virtual instruments of the Garage Band Jam Packs? The obvious application of this would be to be able to use Apple's Jam Pack instruments directly in a DP session. Sure, one could record tracks in DP, use Garage Band to record the parts that will require the Jam Pack instruments, and bring these tracks into DP, but it would be much less cumbersome to do it all in DP. Any thoughts?

MachFive. UVI has an exs converter. You also need Simon Baymoo's little app which will convert the GB Software instruments to exs:

http://simon.baymoo.org/universe/tools/garbnd/

<small>[ April 20, 2005, 05:59 PM: Message edited by: TimeMist ]</small>

[alobonzo]

Hi
You can use them with Kontakt2, just import the exs and go!

[bsantoro]

I successfully played GB 2.0 instruments directly from DP 4.6.

I launched both DP and GB. In DP/Setup/InterApplication MIDI... I simply added a 'DP Input' and 'DP Output'

Then on on MIDI track in DP, I assigned the output to 'DP Output'.

With GarageBand not even playing, the MIDI from DP drives the particular GB Intrument that is assigned in a GB track. I can even record and playback that MIDI in GB.

The thing I haven't figured=out yet is how to record the audio of the GB instrument into an audio track within DP. Any suggestions?

I wanted to be able to use the drum instruments built into GB and Jampack 3 without hooking up my external synth for drum parts. I do not know how CPU efficient it is to run both DP and Garageband simultaneously?

bsantoro

G4 Powerbook 17 1.67GHz with 2GB RAM.

[danes]

Originally posted by Alo:
Hi
You can use them with Kontakt2, just import the exs and go!

Where can I find the exs files and also all the apple loops?

[emulatorloo]

Originally posted by TimeMist:
You also need Simon Baymoo's little app which will convert the GB Software instruments to exs:

http://simon.baymoo.org/universe/tools/garbnd/

Thanks so much for posting this -- I have the old eMagic VST/AU EXS-24 sample player plug-in and I will have to try this out.