Here is a beginners guide on how to use GarageBand to help you get started with making music and becoming a pro. GarageBand is a free music software program available for all Mac computer owners. With GarageBand you can record vocals, play virtual instruments, create drum patterns, record live instruments, and more. GarageBand now offers a range of 15 quantisation settings (to match the Timing Grid options on offer), increased from the four options available in GarageBand '09. One feature not found is the ability to Auto Quantize an audio recording: this can only be carried out after recording in Logic.
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Many songs are organized in sections such as intro, verse, and chorus. Each section is usually eight bars long, or a multiple of eight. When you create a GarageBand song, it contains one repeating section. You can add more sections, set the length of a section, and play back a single section or all sections.
When you tap the Song Section button, Tracks view changes to show all existing sections in the song, and the ruler shows the letter of each section at the beginning of that section.
Open the song section controls
- Tap the Song Section button on the right edge of the ruler.
Add a song section
- Open the song section controls, then tap Add.The new, empty section is added after the last section.
- Tap anywhere in Tracks view to close the song section controls.
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Add a copy of a section
- Open the song section controls, choose the section you want to copy, then tap Duplicate.The copy is added after the last section.
- Tap anywhere in Tracks view to close the song section controls.
Change the length of a section
- Open the song section controls.
- Tap the Inspector button next to the section name.
- If the section is set to Automatic, tap the Automatic switch to turn it off.
- Tap the up or down arrow next to Manual to lengthen or shorten the section incrementally by bars. You can swipe vertically to change it in larger increments.
- Tap anywhere in Tracks view to close the song section controls.
When you shorten a section, any regions extending past the end of the section are shortened. When you lengthen a section, all regions that extend from the beginning to the end of the section now loop to the new end of the section. A section can be any number of bars, and the overall song can be up to 320 bars long.
Play a different section
- Open the song section controls, then choose the section you want to play. To play all sections in the song, choose All Sections.Tracks view changes to show the section, and the ruler shows the bar numbers for the section.In Tracks view, you can also switch between adjacent song sections by swiping left or right until the next section is visible.If you set different quantization or transposition values for a track in different sections, the quantization or transposition value for that track appears as Multiple when you choose All Sections.
- Tap anywhere in Tracks view to close the song section controls.
- To play the current section or sections, tap the Play button in the control bar.
Change the order of sections
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- Open the song section controls, then tap Edit.
- Drag a section up or down in the list by the handle on its right edge.
- When you finish, tap Done.
- Tap anywhere in Tracks view to close the song section controls.
Extend a region across multiple sections
- Open the song section controls, then tap All Sections.
- Tap anywhere in Tracks view to close the song section controls.
- Move, resize, or loop the region to extend across multiple sections. You can also record a new region across multiple sections.
Delete a section
- Open the song section controls, then tap Edit.
- Tap the red circle to the left of the section you want to delete.If the song has only one section, the section cannot be deleted.
- Tap anywhere in Tracks view to close the song section controls.
Set the first section of new songs to match the length of your recording
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By default, the first section of a new song is 8 bars long. You can set the length of the first section of new songs to Automatic, in which case it matches the length of your recording.
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- On the Home screen, tap Settings.
- In the Settings app, scroll down, then tap GarageBand.
- Tap the Automatic Recording Length switch.