How To: Zoom H5 multi track recording in GarageBand 10.1

[tonyo]

This took me a bit of fiddling to sort out, thought others might find it useful.

How to enable multi track recording in garage band with zoom h5.

Plug zoom into usb before turning on zoom.

When you turn on zoom, you'll see menu, choose Audio Interface
Then choose multi track
Then choose pc/mac(battery) (I've since proven pc/mac (bus) also works fine)

Fire up Garage Band
Go to Preferences,Audio/Midi,Input Device and select H5
Choose either guitar or mic in create project dialog (for this I chose guitar - Input 1)
Shift click on the track (Guitar 1), look for the "Track Header Components" menu, from there select sub menu option: Show record enable

Click on the + to add another track, Choose either guitar or mic (for this I chose Mic - Input 3)

Remember to click on the new "record enable" button on both tracks before recording

When you press the record button on the top of the garage band screen, you'll see both tracks recording real time.

[ljguitar]

Hi tonyo

Thanks for the tutorial!

Good to know that kind of control is possible.

[tonyo]

Thanks. I'd still like to figure out if the x/y mics that are 2 channels on the H5 could be input as 2 separate tracks in garage band. It's not important to me but from a curiosity perspective I'd like to see if it can be done.