Sound Production.
I downloaded a sound from SoundDogs and dragged the sound clip into GarageBand onto the piano tab.
Garage Band Tutorial:
1. Open up GarageBand and also iTunes
2. Prepare GarageBand new project
file > new (command and N)
name and save this project
- modify settings: delete the on screen keyboard and the default track. Then re-size the window so that Itunes is visible.
3. Move an iTunes file onto GarageBand then locate your song
drag and drop it into the garage band timeline and then play track.
4. Editing the track
- Select Region
- Left click region to highlight
- Click on track header to select all regions on a track
- Drag mouse over adjacent regions
- Left click on each non adjacent regions
- Move region: drag sideways within track, drag vertically to new track (file > new basic track)
- Place cursor: click above region at location or drag cursor. If you cannot get it in the exact spot:
- Deselect snap to grid: controls > snap to grid. Snapping to grid can be a good thing if you're trying to sync loops but if you're doing some picky editing, your in/out points will likely fall between grid lines.
- Adjust zoom slider.
Split track: edit > split, this will divide the region into separate regions at the point that the cursor is placed.
Delete: edit > delete if you would no longer like to keep that specific region
Cut: edit > cut if you want to take the region out but use it somewhere else
Copy: edit > cut
Paste: edit > paste region will be pasted where the cursor is placed. Paste into same track, or click different track to paste them there.
Undo: edit > undo to go back in the history to a previous step
Redo: edit > redo/repeat a step or to go forward
Repeat/ loop region: place cursor at upper right corner of the region and drag for duration.
Garage Band Tutorial:
1. Open up GarageBand and also iTunes
2. Prepare GarageBand new project
file > new (command and N)
name and save this project
- modify settings: delete the on screen keyboard and the default track. Then re-size the window so that Itunes is visible.
3. Move an iTunes file onto GarageBand then locate your song
drag and drop it into the garage band timeline and then play track.
4. Editing the track
- Select Region
- Left click region to highlight
- Click on track header to select all regions on a track
- Drag mouse over adjacent regions
- Left click on each non adjacent regions
- Move region: drag sideways within track, drag vertically to new track (file > new basic track)
- Place cursor: click above region at location or drag cursor. If you cannot get it in the exact spot:
- Deselect snap to grid: controls > snap to grid. Snapping to grid can be a good thing if you're trying to sync loops but if you're doing some picky editing, your in/out points will likely fall between grid lines.
- Adjust zoom slider.
Split track: edit > split, this will divide the region into separate regions at the point that the cursor is placed.
Delete: edit > delete if you would no longer like to keep that specific region
Cut: edit > cut if you want to take the region out but use it somewhere else
Copy: edit > cut
Paste: edit > paste region will be pasted where the cursor is placed. Paste into same track, or click different track to paste them there.
Undo: edit > undo to go back in the history to a previous step
Redo: edit > redo/repeat a step or to go forward
Repeat/ loop region: place cursor at upper right corner of the region and drag for duration.
I simply dragged in my chosen sound SoundDogs, I saved the sound onto my desktop to it was easy to find when loading up GarageBand. Then I dragged this into GarageBand into a new song tab.
This is where you would like to split a track, you simply go to edit then press split.
On this image I split my track from SoundDogs and made the middle of the song a little longer than the first and last pieces in this new track. On the region bar you can see a small triangle, when you click that it brings up the track volume underneath your track, as shown in this image. The blue lines show she volume of the track.
This image I did the same, I split my track into short and long pieces and then made the middle section a little longer by just clicking the end of the middle track and dragging it for as far as I would like. I made the beginning fade and by using the triangle on the region bar and using the dots as show below as this is a better view of how to do this. Then near the end of the middle section I gradually faded it out, then on the third section faded it back in.
On this image, I brought up the master volume tab, to bring up your songs master volume by choosing show master track from the tracks menu. Now for the fade, scroll along to the end of your song and about 30 seconds before it finished, click the purple volume line on the master track at the Odb level. A purple dot should appear, this is a volume control point.
Here I did the dame as the above but went to 'track' then found fade out at the bottom.
Here I kept the image before, however I added in a little beat. To get these sounds in you would go to the audio library on the right hand side. I went too all instruments, drums and then beats and found a beat that was suitable for the track. After that I dropped the beat in. Underneath you can see a blue line again. Here I faded this beat in so it would blend in well with my chosen track.
For this image I did the exact same, but changed the effect. I went to the audio library again on the right hand side. After I has chosen my effect I faded it in to make sure that it would blend in well with my first track.
This image is the same as the image above, but there is a big orange where as the image above has a blue bar. This is because of the winder at the top of the image of this I went to control > hide loop browser.
This is the same image as the above but the loop browser has been hidden, to bring it back you would simply click show loop browser.
On this image I made another track with my downloaded sound from SoundDogs. I did some fading in and out. I then added another beat and created a few more fading in and fading out parts to make this track sounds more positive.
This one was my last track created with my sound from SoundDogs. On this track I split my track which was the orange bar and made the first part longer and the middle short. Underneath this I made the drum kit again and added a beat and underneath that I put another beat.