Here are a couple examples:Īmbience: b ackground noise added to a musical recording to give the impression that it was recorded liveĬompression: reduces the volume of loud sounds and increases the volume of quieter sounds, over all smoothing out the levels of an audio recording and compressing the dynamic range.ĭelay: an effect that delays and repeats a signal. If you choose a guitar patch, it make end up looking like the controls on an amplifier. If you choose a vocal patch, more control settings may appear: These are some of the many available patches for electric guitar and bass (clean guitar, crunch guitar, clean bass): You can change those settings as a new patch and then save and name them for future use. It gives you the controls of an amplifier with preset settings.

GarageBand features different patches for vocals, guitars, basses in the library menu.

The meaning of the word patch got extended to refer to the settable, memory-stored parameters in an electronic instruments signal processing circuits. Patch cables route signals from one module to another, but electronic instruments now are built with patch memory and the signal routing became all internal. The use of the word patch refers back to analog technology when the first synthesizers were modular synthesizers and the sounds were created and configured with the use of patch cables. The control panel will change depending on the patch you choose.Ī patch is a set of parameter settings, signal routings, and/or patch cable configurations that produces a particular sound on an electronic/electric instrument. This is the basic controls panel that appears when you have a blank track.

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