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Using effects in GarageBand

Effects color the sound of a track or project in different ways. Each Real Instrument and Software Instrument has a set of professional-quality effects, including:

You can also add other effects to instruments or to the overall project, including:

Each effect has a slider or a pop-up menu you can use to adjust the effect. Effects with pop-up menus have presets (groups of settings) that you can adjust. You can also create and save your own effect presets. To learn about effect presets, see Related Topics below.

The Echo and Reverb instrument effects control the amount of echo and reverb sent from the instrument to the master echo and reverb effects. If you turn off the master echo or reverb, these effects won’t be available for individual instruments. The Track Echo effect is independent of the master echo effect, and can have different settings for each track.

For a brief description of individual effects, see the Glossary.

Related Topics

Adding and adjusting effects

Editing and saving effect presets

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