Answers to Your GarageBand Questions
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Connect music equipment. Create and save projects. Set project tempo, key, time signature, and length. Play projects, move the playhead, and move around in the timeline.
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Add, select, move, lock, and rename tracks. Change the track instrument, add and adjust track effects, set track input, and monitor input. Edit and save instrument presets. Import audio and MIDI files.
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Find and preview Apple Loops using the loop browser. Add loops to a project. Make your own Apple Loops, customize the loop browser, and more.
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Play and record Real Instruments, including guitars and basses. Edit Real Instrument regions. Use the metronome and the instrument tuner.
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Play and record Software Instruments using a music keyboard, the onscreen keyboard, or Musical Typing. Edit Software Instrument regions. View and edit regions as music notation. Use Soundfonts in Software Instrument tracks.
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Edit regions in the timeline and the editor by moving, looping, resizing, and more. Use the grid to align regions with measures and beats.
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Set track volume and pan. Add and adjust effects. Edit and save effect presets. Automate changes using volume, pan, and tempo curves. Edit the master track, and more.
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Create audio and video podcast episodes. Add artwork, markers, and URLs. Use podcast sounds, and send a podcast episode to iWeb or export it.
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Send an iMovie project to GarageBand, view the video as you work, edit the video's audio track, add markers and URLs, send the finished movie to iDVD or export as a QuickTime movie.
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Send projects to iTunes and other iLife applications. Export a project as a podcast episode or a QuickTime movie.
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Add photos, movies, and audio files, create podcasts, create musical scores for iMovie projects or videos, create longer songs, import projects into other projects, and more.
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