You can give your song texture by adjusting individual tracks to become louder and softer to emphasize particular moments. With GarageBand, this process is easy and yields professional-sounding results. Mar 09, 2011 GarageBand turns your iPad, and iPhone into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. And with Live Loops, it makes it easy for anyone to have fun creating music like a DJ. Use Multi-Touch gestures to.
Creating a mix of a song with iLife’s GarageBand ’11 isn’t always complicated. You may simply need to raise or lower the volume of the individual tracks by using the track volume sliders. If it sounds good after doing so, you’re well on your way to finishing the mix. However, you may need to refine the volume for each track to create a good mix by setting the pan position for each track and setting automation curves for settings.
Setting the volume and pan position when mixing tracks in GarageBand ’11
The volume for each track can be raised or lowered so that you can achieve a balance of sound across all tracks. You can drag the track’s Volume slider in the track header to the left to lower the track’s volume, and to the right to raise it.
In addition, you can place the sound for each track in the stereo field with the pan wheel in the track header. Drag counterclockwise to pan to the left channel, or clockwise to pan to the right — the wheel’s white dot indicates the position. Option-click the pan wheel to return it to the center position.
Drum and bass tracks are typically set to the middle (balanced between the left and right stereo fields), and vocals, lead instruments, and supporting instruments and vocals can be put in either channel.
Setting automation curves for settings when mixing tracks in GarageBand ’11
Sound is fluid, and by controlling the ebb and flow of the volume and other settings for a track, you can work wonders to improve a song. GarageBand ’11 provides an automation curve for controlling the track volume, track pan, and automated mixing settings over the duration of a song. You can raise or lower the volume of a track at specific points to simulate a crescendo or decrescendo, to make specific tracks fade in or out, or even to hide a bad note by lowering the volume in the track at that moment.
To set an automation curve for Track Volume, follow these steps:
Click the Curves (triangle) button in the track header, and choose Track Volume from the pop-up menu.
Click the rectangle next to Track Volume to turn it on or off.
Click the line to create several points, and then drag each point to define a curve.
A setting of 0 indicates even volume, dragging up into positive numbers increases volume, and dragging down into negative numbers decreases volume. The volume changes evenly between points on the volume curve, providing smoother volume control for the track.
Click and then drag a point on the automation curve for Track Volume.
Setting an automation curve for Track Pan works in the same way as the Track Volume curve works. Just choose Track Pan from the pop-up menu. As you drag the curve, the 0 setting is the middle, dragging up into positive numbers pans to the right channel, and dragging down into negative numbers pans to the left channel. The pan changes evenly between points on the curve, providing smoother pan control for the track.
Choose Add Automation from the pop-up menu to add automation curves for Visual EQ and Echo & Reverb settings.
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You can remix a GarageBand song in real time, in either the Tracks area or the Live Loops grid. Using the Remix FX, you can scratch-mix the song like a DJ using a turntable, play the song in reverse, stop or downsample the song, and use a variety of remix effects.
Remix FX includes a set of buttons and XY pads you can use to control various effects. The three central buttons are: Reverse, Scratch and Tape Stop. The two vertical sliders are: Gater and Downsampler. The selectable effects for the XY pads include Filter, Wobble, Orbit, Repeater, Reverb and Delay effects.
You can also control the XY pads with the motion sensors on your iPad using Gyro Control, and lock an effect using FX Lock, so it continues to sound after you lift your finger.
After you record a remix, you can edit the Remix FX region like other regions in Tracks view. If you cut or shorten the Remix FX region made with a locked effect, that effect shuts off at the end of the region, and starts again at the start of the next region when you play the remix.
Open the Remix FX controls
In the control bar, tap the FX button.
To close the Remix FX, tap the FX button again.
Turn on Gyro Control
Lock an effect
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Tap the FX Lock button above one of the XY pads.
To unlock the effect, tap the Reset button, or double-tap the FX button.
Record a remix
For each XY pad, tap the effect to use for that pad.
Tap the Record button.
As the song plays, use the Remix FX buttons, XY pads and other controls.
A purple region with your changes appears in the FX track at the bottom of the Tracks area.
When you finish, tap the Play button to stop recording.
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Bypass Remix FX when you play a song
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In Tracks view, drag a track header right to show the track controls.
In the FX track, tap the On/Off button to bypass the Remix FX.
To hear the Remix FX again, tap the On/Off button again.
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You can also merge one or more tracks with the FX track. Any effects recorded to the FX track are added to the new Audio Recorder track, and the FX track is turned off (so the effects are audible only on the new track).