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440 Forums _ GarageBand, Soundtrack _ Total Noob Needs Help With Samples

Posted by: RHfangirl Wed 13 Apr 2005, 23:47

Hello. I am totally new to any of this. I hope I'm posting this in the right forum. Sorry if I'm not. Anyway, I just started playing with Garage Band. What I want to know is if I can take a sample from a regular song and isolate one instrument. For instance, if I want to use a bass line from, say, Joy Division, am I able to zero in on just that, without the drums or anything? I've been teaching myself how to use Garage Band and haven't really found anything to address this issue. I don't even know if it can be done, but I figured all of you would know. Thanks for putting up with the noob.

Posted by: kaboombahchuck Thu 14 Apr 2005, 00:59

The answer is no. Certainly not with GB, and not with any other device. You might get close, but you will be dissapointed. Whenever you take something away from a track to get at something else, you will lose sounds (or fequencies) in the instrument you are trying to isolate.

Posted by: RHfangirl Thu 14 Apr 2005, 01:18

Pooh! Thank you anyway. i'll have to play the distortion.