GarageBand Hybrid Basic
The Hybrid Basic instrument is a sample-based synthesizer that can create spectacular sounds.
Volume slider: Sets the overall volume level of the instrument.
Waveform pop-up menu: Choose the sample set used to generate the basic synthesizer sound.
Glide slider: Determines the time it takes a note pitch to change (slide) to another note pitch.
Wheel to Vibrato slider: Determines the amount of pitch modulation by your keyboard’s modulation wheel.
Wheel to Cutoff slider: Determines the depth of Cutoff modulation by your keyboard’s modulation wheel.
Cutoff slider: Allows more (high) or less (low) of the sound through, making it brighter or damping it.
Cutoff Type pop-up menu: Enables you to choose from a number of preset filter curves. Try them out, and experiment with the Cutoff and Resonance parameters.
Resonance slider: Emphasizes the frequency range around the point determined by the Cutoff parameter.
Cutoff Attack slider: Determines the time it takes before the Cutoff parameter begins to affect the sound.
Attack slider: Makes the sound start more slowly or quickly. A fast setting makes it sound like striking a piano key, whereas a slow setting makes it sound like bowing a violin string.
Decay slider: Makes the harmonic portion of the sound (bright) sustain for a longer time at slow values. Faster values move to the Sustain level more quickly.
Sustain slider: Determines the level of the sound after the Attack and/or the Decay phase has completed.
Release slider: Determines the time it takes for notes to fade out after you let go of the keys on your keyboard.