Chapter 4. Working with Real Instruments

Lesson Files

 

Lessons > Lesson_04 > 4-1 GuitarTest Starting; 4-2 GuitarTest Finished; 4-3 BassTest Starting; 4-4 BassTest Finished; 4-5 Piano Starting; 4-6 Piano Finished; 4-7 Piano punch ins

Time

 

This lesson takes approximately 1 hour, 30 minutes to complete.

Goals

 

Set the input channel for a Real Instrument track

  

Set up musical instruments for recording

  

Monitor Real Instrument input

  

Record guitars

  

Explore the Track Info window

  

Add effects to a track and adjust them

  

Edit Real Instrument regions

  

Understand how to record over part of a song

  

Work with the Timeline grid

  

Split a region

  

Edit a Real Instrument region in the Track Editor

GarageBand gives you many choices of instruments, tracks, regions, ...

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