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Table Of Contents
- Getting Started
- Contents
- Welcome to GarageBand
- GarageBand at a Glance
- Working With Projects
- Using Apple Loops
- Working in the Timeline
- About Regions
- Selecting Regions
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Regions
- Looping Regions
- Resizing Regions
- Moving Regions
- Transposing Regions
- Splitting Regions
- Joining Regions
- Fixing the Timing of Software Instrument Regions
- Setting Real Instrument Regions to Keep Their Original Tempo
- Renaming Regions
- Using the Grid
- Using Undo and Redo
- Working With Real Instruments
- Working With Software Instruments
- Working in the Editor
- Working in Notation View
- Mixing and Adding Effects
- Creating Podcasts in GarageBand
- Creating a Musical Score for an iMovie or Video
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Connecting Music Equipment toYour Computer
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3 Working With Projects
You start working in GarageBand by creating a project.
Projects hold your music and all the changes you make.
Each project has a tempo, a time signature, and a key, which last for the entire length
of the project. When you create a project, you set the tempo, time signature, and key in
the New Project dialog. You can save a project as an archive, and export a project to
iTunes or another iLife application.
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:
 Create a new project
 Set a project’s tempo, key, and time signature
 Open existing projects
 Save projects
Creating a Project
You start working in GarageBand by creating a new project.
To create a new project:
1 Choose File > New.
2 In the New Project dialog, select the type of project you want to create.
3 In the dialog that appears, browse to the location where you want to store the project,
then type a name for the project in the Name field.
4 Set the project’s tempo, key, and time signature as described in the following sections.