This my attempt to document how to get Garageband to work with Overbridge. I hope this can help out someone else down the road…
Setup: Once you first open the Overbridge program and setup the engine, you will need to tell your Mac’s security settings to trust it. I believe that you have some limited time window (30 minutes) to do this the first time you use OB. This is in the Overbridge documentation.
Step 0: Make sure the Overbridge engine is on (look for the Elektron logo in the tool bar) and set your audio input to monitor from USB.
Step 1: Set up an audio track to catch the audio (over USB) coming from your instrument
Step 2: Make sure the track settings are monitoring input from your instrument. You can record to you track, but the Elektron engine will show up as idle (I’m not sure why…)
Step 3: Now, let’s try to set up a software plug-in instrument. Change the plug-in from the default electric piano to the Elektron instrument.
Step 4: Now the Overbridge window pops up. I can affect the sound on the A4 in realtime by editing the OB window, and I can hear audio through my speakers. Pressing REC/PLAY on GB causes the A4 sequencer to play but audio is NOT recorded to the track. Pressing notes on the keyboard caused events to be recorded into the Software Instrument track, but it’s not grabbing audio. Pressing play on the Audio Instrument track does not trigger the seqencer.
I’m sure that someone smarter than me can figure this one out, but hopefully this gets some of you started. Happy playing!