 I'm Ellie and this is Tom. We're here from TC Helicon and today we're gonna tell you how you can do a multitrack stereo recording into an iOS app GarageBand using the Blender. Right. Well first of all let's describe Blender. Blender is a six input four output stereo mixer that you can connect instruments to and have silent jam sessions with your friends without annoying neighbors but it also has a multi-channel audio interface capability to your computer digital audio workstation or to an iOS device such as an iPad. So the first thing you're gonna want to do set up your Blender and if you don't have a setup or you don't know how to set it up go check out our how to blend Blender quick start video manual and get all set up and then come back to this video and continue off here. We should do one of those videos where they put in a Blender and how to blend Blender anyway so what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to connect it up to your recording device and Blender does come with a handy little USB cable with standard end and a mini USB end and if you're going to record to an iPad such as what we're gonna do with GarageBand today you're gonna want to get camera camera connection kit and anyway okay so we have one here connect the big end to the connection kit connect the small end to Blender let's see if I can do that like that and then we'll connect this into the lightning port of the iPad we should probably turn this on. Let's turn it on. So the first thing we're going to want to do is open up the GarageBand app and we're gonna make a new project by hitting this blue plus in the top right corner of the screen. You want to make sure you're in the tracks menu and we're gonna select audio recorder. It's gonna prompt you to turn on monitoring but we actually don't want to do that because if you put in a pair of headphones into the headphone jack up here it's going to then ignore this lightning port. So we want to keep that on and we're gonna do our monitoring in another way and I'll show you that later so I'm gonna say cancel. So we've got our first track here I'm gonna hit this fader icon and it says audio recorder so you're gonna hit that blue. You just want to make sure that the setting is fun and clean we want to record in a nice clean track so that we can do any editing and post that we want to do or if you're using a vocal processor or an instrument processor like we are you're sending effects in so you want to make sure that the clean receiving track is nice and clean. Then you go track settings recording and you want to make sure that multi-take recording is on and we're gonna get out of there and we're gonna hit the fader buttons and I'll go back to this screen. Here you're gonna go to the channel and select that and for channel one which is myself for the perform VG that I'm using because it sends a stereo out I'm gonna just select input one and two. So there we go first track is set up and you can hit that icon and rename that we're gonna call it Ellie. Ellie, Vox and Guitar and hit return to save it. Now adding a second track again audio recorder and I'm gonna hit that track icon just to make sure that we are in the fun clean setting. We'll just double check it should automatically make all of them multi-take recording on because we're using a multi-track interface and hit the faders. Now we're in our track two is highlighted it's not highlighted you just need to hit that little icon it'll highlight the track. Select channel now this is going to be Tom in his he's an input four which is if you're looking stereo it's one two three four five six input four is actually input seven and eight and we're gonna go ahead and name that to Tom and hit return to save. Okay last track on the blender we are in input five which is one two three four five it's gonna be input nine and ten for stereo for our perform VE. Go ahead rename that it's gonna call it VE and save. There we go so we've got all of our tracks set up for multi-track recording we seem to make sure that they're all activated by selecting the red record buttons there. One other thing we want to do is go over to this branch into settings I'm gonna go to advanced and want to make sure multi-tracking is on so that's great and then 24 audio resolution we want to have that on as well because the blender is a really high quality of recording so that's fantastic we'll just do that and of course you've got all of your metronome settings and everything in here as well so you can go ahead and and have that as as you like so now we're ready to go so talking about monitoring because we can't have our phone plug or our headphones plugged in here we can hear it through the blender so if you want the metronome on and you can so you can hear it'll go back through the lightning camera connection kit to the blender you'll be able to hear the metronome throughout the song however if you want to check your levels you need to do it using these faders here so if you're testing vocals hey hey hey you can see it coming in track one here so it's peaking a bit there so what I want to do is on my my vocal processor not the blender I want to select my output volume and turn that down a bit I'm gonna sing as loud as I think I'm probably gonna sing so now it's about halfway through that's a pretty good point and then we'll go ahead and do that for Tom and for the VE as well and that's visually how we're gonna check our input levels just to make sure that we're not peaking great so we're all set up and we are ready to record all right so we've got everything ready to go we're gonna do this let's make some music alright my mic is all here we go yeah big intro now we did it