
About tracks
Tracks give you a way to organize your music, and control the sound of the instruments in a project. Tracks are where you record Real and Software Instruments, where you drag loops to add them to your project, and where you arrange regions in the timeline.
Each track has a track header (in the Tracks column), which contains the instrument name and icon, Mute and Solo buttons for the track, and a triangle to show and hide the track’s volume curve. Each track also has a pan control, a volume slider, and a pair of level meters in the track mixer.
GarageBand projects can have two kinds of tracks:
- Real Instrument tracks, which contain Real Instrument regions created when you record a Real Instrument, or when you add a Real or Software Instrument loop. Real Instrument regions are audio recordings.
- Software Instrument tracks, which contain Software Instrument regions created when you record a Software Instrument, or when you add a Software Instrument loop. Software Instrument regions are “rendered” by your computer in real time.
