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Summary: Musical typing in Garage Band is a very useful and important feature that allows you to use your computer keyboard to control and create midi data in your project. Learn tips on how to use this to its full advantage in this free video clip.
Rattanak Ouk is an engineer from West Hartford, Connecticut. He was born in Cambodia and was raised in the United States. He attended the University of Hartford and today words as a...read more
"Next thing we're going to bring up is the musical typing keyboard. Now this musical typing keyboard basically turns your keypad into a keyboard. So what you can do, you can go to your window, put musical typing. Now once this is open you can actually change the octave by pushing z or x, you can see at the top how it's changing. So you can change a couple other things like modulation and pitch value as well as velocity and things like that. This is a very useful tool because you know not all times you can bust out a keyboard or a mini controller so this is kind of a quick fix. You know I know a lot of people who are able to do a lot of stuff with just this keypad. So you can always change this to the keyboard, the keyboard just works like this and it's something you press with the keypad. You can also do other options as far as trying to add like a keyboard or some type of mini controller. There's a lot of usb and mini cords that you can, those are very useful. They're only about forty dollars, you can plug in usb cord right here and then plug it up to any type of keyboard and you can use is as a controller."
eHow Article: Musical Typing in Garage Band