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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
50 Chapter 6 Working With Real Instruments
Recording a Real Instrument With the Cycle Region
GarageBand lets you record over a specific part of a project. Musicians sometimes call
this “punching in” and “punching out,” and call the points where you start and stop
recording “punch points.”
To record over a specific part of a project, you set the cycle region in the timeline.
To set the cycle region:
1 Click the Cycle button. The cycle region appears as a yellow strip just below the beat
ruler.
2 Move the cycle region to the point in the timeline where you want to start recording,
then drag the end of the cycle region to the point in the timeline where you want to
end recording. You can drag in the cycle region ruler (below the beat ruler) to move the
cycle region to a new part of the timeline.
You may want to have the cycle region start a few extra beats before the point where
you want to start recording, to make it easier to start playing on the beat, and end a
few beats after you want to stop recording, in case your last note extends past the end
of the cycle region.
To record using a cycle region:
1 Select the Real Instrument track you want to record in.
2 Click the Record button to start recording.
3 Play your musical instrument, or sing into your microphone. As you record, a new
region appears in the selected Real Instrument track.
Real Instruments only record the first time through the cycle region. When the cycle
region repeats, you hear the newly recorded region.
4 When you are finished, click the Play button to stop the cycle region.
5 If you want to replace the recorded region, click the Record button and play the part
again.
6 When you have finished using the cycle region, click the Cycle button again to turn
it off.