
Arrange and mix your project
You arrange a project by working with regions in the tracks in the timeline. Tracks and regions are the building blocks of a GarageBand project.
You can add tracks, rename them, and change their instrument and effects settings. You can move and copy regions, loop them, change their length, transpose them to different keys, split and join them, and make other changes to build the arrangement of your project.
Once you’ve recorded and arranged the parts of your project, you can mix them together into a cohesive whole. You mix a project by:
- Adjusting the volume and stereo placement (called the “pan position”) of each track to balance different instruments.
- Adding high-quality effects to instruments and to the overall project to enhance the sound or give it a special character. Each track includes a compressor, equalizer (EQ), echo, reverb, and other effects that you can adjust.
- Adding changes to the volume of tracks or the overall project over time using volume curves. For instance, you can fade in the beginning of a project, or fade out the end.
