Adjust the volume in each track accordingly. You typically want them to be peaking in the yellow area. Double-click it to bring up a detailed view of the track, in which you will be editing.

C – Clicking this down-facing triangle icon will bring up the volume control associated with the track.

Useful when you have more than one track on the timeline but you need to edit the audio from one.

B – The icon, which looks like a pair of headphones, will isolate that particular track to work on, muting all others.

Again, space bar will both play and stop your audio. Your cursor will be busy highlighting, editing and dragging clips on the timeline, and so it is faster to use the hot key rather than click the play/stop button. I recommend using the hot key for this, which is the space bar. Now that you have your audio imported into GarageBand, let’s go over some of the main bells and whistles in the program:

In the image below, I am dragging an audio file titled R09_0032.MP3 into the top track in GarageBand. Select the Grand Piano track by clicking on the piano icon, and go back up to Track in the menu options and select Delete Track.Īdding your audio into GarageBand is as simple as dragging an MP3 onto one of the two New Basic Tracks that you created. One track will have your ambient sound and the other will contain interviews.

Two tracks will typically be the minimum number of tracks you will be working with. This can also be done by pressing Shift + Command + N.Ĭreate one more New Basic Track. Your first steps will be to close out the Grand Piano window, and go up to Track in the menu options, and select New Basic Track. When you first open GarageBand and create a new project, you will see the following: You can also click on Video Screencasts in the Table of Contents below to jump straight to the screencasts. This post will cover the basics of editing audio in GarageBand.

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