Apple GarageBand Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools Tips - Manual (Page 2)

2 Tips for Using GarageBand Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools Instruments
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.
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
keyboard’s 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 kit’s
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.
Drum Kit Description Controller Information
Roland CR-78 Kit Based on the CR-78 CompuRhythm,
the world’s first user-programmable
drum machine, a breakthrough from
Roland. The mod wheel closes the cutoff
filter and increases resonance.
All Roland kits include drum kit
sounds with alternate effects in the
C–1 to C1 note range.
The TR-808 and TR-909 drum kits
include alternate kick drum sounds
in the C–2 to C–1 note range, and
alternate snare drum sounds in the
E5 to F7 note range.
Roland TR-606 Kit Based on the TR-606 Drumatix, the
highly portable, analog “little
brother” of the TR-808.
Roland TR-808 Kit Based on the TR-808 Rhythm
Composer, the all-time favorite used
in many hit songs from the 1980s
on.
Roland TR-909 Kit Based on the TR-909 Rhythm
Composer, the first Roland drum
machine to combine analog and
sampled sounds.
c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5