I would like to thank you for taking time out and making such useful videos. Your explanations, your voice and your video are all very clear, succinct and waste no time. I am glad after many searches and going through many useless videos I came across yours. Many thanks again and please keep up the great work. It helped me a lot today and I had to express my gratitude. Thank you.
I was looking for how to move the playhead without dragging, and ended up also learning 24 other neat shortcuts I didn't know but also really helped! Thanks so much for helping people learn quicker!!!
Doggone it, Dr. Watson. I just found out you don’t do house calls. Darn!! Your clips are wonderful. Clear and concise. I’m brand spanking new to Garage Band (GB) despite not being brand new myself. I’m 73, a clarinet player and a user of Band In A Box (BIAB). My intent is to export a WAV file from BIAB to GB, the add a clarinet WAV file of the melody from the multi-track function on my Zoom H4N-Pro. And then create an MP3. I’ve haven’t done any of this previously so I’m sure I’ll be futzing around for a while ‘til I get comfortable. I plan on revisiting as many of your clips as necessary to help me along. So.........I’m a Subscriber. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
i LOVE LOVE LOVE. You explained in detail some amature commands and some crazy ones i would otherwise have no idea existed!! SO HELPFUL. Thankyou in advance for saving me months of time and affort! xD
That was hugely helpful. I haven't used GarageBand for a couple of years and recently was given a 2017 MacBook Pro. Of course, GB 2017 looks very different from the version I used to know how to use... and your video is very useful for getting back up to speed. THANK YOU!
Thanks for sharing these useful shortcuts. It would be really handy to be able to summon the cycle region to the play head position without finding and then dragging it. I don’t think this is possible? Thanks again.
Maybe you could redo this one with a more recent version of GarageBand? But luckily, so far the commands are all the same. You might get more views though, because people might click off thinking it's the wrong version/program. Thanks for the tips, all the best
Great tips. Question: say I cut out a middle portion of a track I don't need and then want align the end & beginning of the two remaining regions together.... is there a shortcut to snap region back together?
By the way, one command I would add to your list is Shift-Cmd-Z, Redo. To test this, using Garageband MacOS 10.3.5, I selected a track and hit Cmd-D 30 times to duplicate the track. Then, I was able to hit Cmd-Z 30 times, followed by Shift-Cmd-Z 30 times, to arrive back at the starting state. Very good!
This is great! What if I wanted to click and drag everything to the right aside from a few clips in the beginning? How do I "select all" from the right of the playback ruler without selecting the first couple clips with it?
Try this: Do Select All, which - as you say - will select everything including the first few clips (regions). BUT THEN Shift-Click the first few clips to UNSELECT THEM. Then just drag the rest all together.
Is there a way to move one clip to the one next to it without dragging it? It always drags up to short or ends up going to far and cutting the track down that you dragged it towards. Thanks!
There may be a short cut I don't know about, but you could try copy-paste rather than dragging. Just be sure the playhead is located at the place where you want the copy to appear.
I’m doing 5 session on recording multitracks 1-18 channels Now I want to mix ,, How can I used the same mix I did for the first song , to the other sessions ?
Dr. Watson, If I set drums to guitar as separate tracks, but want to store the isolated tracts to a file for ready use, do you have a tutorial on this? And the next question, can one then combine the guitars and drums (assuming those are finalized) as one file unit to limit rows? I'm noticing a lot of tracks. Is there a way to save the settings of a track and insert it into a measure in another track while retaining the features of that isolated original piece?
I don't understand your question fully. For instance, when you say "can one then combine the guitars and drums (assuming those are finalized) as one file" to you really mean FILE, or do you mean TRACK? If the former...YES (export the two tracks as an AIF or MP3 file. If the later...not really (unless you do a work-around). BTW, you can select "New Track with Duplicate Settings" from the Track Menu if you want to replicate things such as DSP effects from one track to another.
@@ScottWatsonMusic You are correct on my misuse of terminology. Say I come up with theme music for a podcast through creating multiple tracks. If I want to combine all the tracks used for the theme music into one master track, and then use that song theme for all my podcasts, how do I unify tracks to be used again and again for different podcast file tracks. I'm not quite understanding how to combine the tracks and then move as one unit to be copied for different podcasts that I'm creating in garage band. thank you so much
Great video, thank you! Very useful stuff! Quick question - Sometimes when I move a region around by click/dragging, when I let go it might be off-beat by a very slight bit. Other times it helps me adjust to be in sync with the beats in the bars. Any idea why my playhead thumb sometimes has the auto-adjust setting off? Cheers!
One of THE most important shortcuts/tools is the slider for zooming in and out of a track. Not one single video on RUclips shows how to pull the slider up.
My Dad made a piano track with 31 songs all on one track... how do I split them up to indued. songs. A lot of cut and paste or something quicker. Thanks
I have a question for anyone who might know. On the old garage band I was able to move the cursor exactly the way I wanted and was able to cut and edit tracks to the exact sound vibration shown on the screen. Now the cursor just jumps and I can't ever pin point it to the exact location on the track I want to edit. Is there a way to change the cursor or something to be able to move more freely? Hope this makes sense and thank you in advance if anyone knows how to help.
anybody know how to select everything to the right of the playhead? im editing a podcast and having to cut out dead air so I have to select all but only what is ahead of the playhead. thanks
You can zoom all the way out and click-drag around those regions. You can also shift-click to select regions you missed or to de-select regions you caught accidentally.
@@ScottWatsonMusic yeah that's how I usually do it but it takes ages that way when the recording is hours long. I was just hoping there was a short cut. Thanks though
Hello! Please advice me on How to move multiple TRACKS/TAKES (NOT “regions”) in GarageBand on MAC: to simply move them up or down in the order of tracks without dragging each track 1 at a time. If this is possible, PLEASE instruct exactly how to do so! 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Do you know how to make it so when I click something on the keyboard, I can play my own sound effect? For instance: I hit the “7” key and an applause sounds. Or I hit the “L” key and the laugher sound starts. Need help!!!
That was something you used to be able to do before GarageBand 10. I don't think you can sample and trigger sounds anymore, sadly, because that was a cool feature.
Cut moves a selection out of the project and temporarily onto the system clipboard (which you can paste elsewhere). Split "splits" a region into two bits which you can edit separately, but removes nothing.
Not sure. I don't use Cubase, but I'm unaware of GarageBand shortcuts that can be customized (for instance, assigning which keys accomplish which functions).
To "deactivate" notes in a track, click on the speaker icon on the track head. This mutes the track. To activate them, click again on the same (speaker) icon.
Thanks Scott. Terrific. Except that I wanted to do zoom in the IOS version, and it’s a big giant gaping hole. In fact, much of what do present should sensibly have been ported across, but no. The IOS garageband seems to be a MESS. I am following with a summary.
Yes, other than the virtual instruments I don't find much use for the iOS version of GarageBand. It really is a different app than the desktop version (which is a true, though entry-level, DAW).
Hi, I have a problem, you seem to know a lot about GarageBand so maybe you can help, because I cannot find the answer after a lot of Googling. I just upgraded to Mojave and when you played a track in GarageBand, the playhead used to follow where the music was playing, i.e. you would see it at all times. Now it doesn't so what I am seeing is not what is playing, and you have to scroll to try and catch yp and that is SO impractical and annoying ... by Googling I found out this is called "catch mode" but I could not find where to enable it in my Garageband. I don't see what use it can be to anyone to have the track stay immobile while the music keeps playing. This is so counterproductive?? Also my computer is in French so if you could tell me what the icons were like, because it's sometimes hard for me to figure out what the french name is bersus what they call it in english. Thanks!
☠BLACK BARON☠1:04 Can someone of the devs please put this timeline stretcher scale bar out of the timeline in User Interface Design ... this thing on top floating over everything is really really really annoying.
Further to my previous post, I would like to comment on Garageband IOS 2.3.8. - Cannot zoom out further than the longest region. OUCH. - Shift-Click does not work. - There seems to be no snap-to-grid - There is no Option-drag. - There is NO keyboard command for Zoom. OUCH OUCH. - There are no commands E B C Y. Perhaps not relevant to the IOS environment. - Amazingly, O for Loops DOES work. But, weirdly, it does not toggle. I mean, surely that is so slack ... - Also, A for automation DOES work and DOES toggle. Hooray. Cheers
Thanks for the additions/suggestions, Greg. BTW, I barely use GarageBand on iOS so I don't post/share about it...just the Mac OSX computer-based version.
I disagree, but it sounds like you've made up your mind. I believe a talented composer/arranger/producer can use almost any tool to create compelling, expressive music. I know I've encounter hundreds of folks who "know how to use ProTools," but the music they create with it is unremarkable. All this to say, IMHO, the tool is much less important than how you use it.
I would like to thank you for taking time out and making such useful videos. Your explanations, your voice and your video are all very clear, succinct and waste no time. I am glad after many searches and going through many useless videos I came across yours. Many thanks again and please keep up the great work. It helped me a lot today and I had to express my gratitude. Thank you.
You're very welcome :)
I was looking for how to move the playhead without dragging, and ended up also learning 24 other neat shortcuts I didn't know but also really helped! Thanks so much for helping people learn quicker!!!
This is Perfect. Thank you so much. Clear, concise, perfect visuals, and a soothing voice.
Doggone it, Dr. Watson. I just found out you don’t do house calls. Darn!!
Your clips are wonderful.
Clear and concise.
I’m brand spanking new to Garage Band (GB) despite not being brand new myself.
I’m 73, a clarinet player and a user of Band In A Box (BIAB).
My intent is to export a WAV file from BIAB to GB, the add a clarinet WAV file of the melody from the multi-track function on my Zoom H4N-Pro.
And then create an MP3.
I’ve haven’t done any of this previously so I’m sure I’ll be futzing around for a while ‘til I get comfortable.
I plan on revisiting as many of your clips as necessary to help me along.
So.........I’m a Subscriber.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
THANKS for subscribing!!
Thank you!!! This was SUPER WELL DONE!! Fast and to the point and GREAT TIPS!! Thank you, again!
I learned a couple of useful ones here. Thanks!
Thank you very much Dr. Watson for this video. I finally "get it" after so many years trying to understand and navigate through Garage Band...
Glad it was helpful!
This video was an enormous time-saver for me. Scott, very grateful for these tips. My productivity just tripled!
Fantastic!
i LOVE LOVE LOVE. You explained in detail some amature commands and some crazy ones i would otherwise have no idea existed!! SO HELPFUL. Thankyou in advance for saving me months of time and affort! xD
Glad it was helpful!
My hero. Thank you! Well done, nicely explained and demonstrated - extremely helpful.
Glad it helped!
Terrific stuff. Lots of good info, zero time wasted. Thank you, Scott!
Thanks for the kind words!
This video actually showed me a few hints I didn't know. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the shortcut list and printable link. Very helpful
I just got garageband today and this video is a lifesaver!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!
You're welcome!!
That was hugely helpful. I haven't used GarageBand for a couple of years and recently was given a 2017 MacBook Pro. Of course, GB 2017 looks very different from the version I used to know how to use... and your video is very useful for getting back up to speed. THANK YOU!
Glad it helped!
This was VERY helpful for a beginner!!! Thank you TONS! A most excellent beginner video, I am sending everyone your way.
THANKS!!
Thank u so much for your time making this video and share it with us !!! This one is really help me ❤
Very helpful. thank you
This is exactly what I was looking for!! Thank you for creating this video. I am going to referring to it often!
Glad you found it helpful, and THANKS for spreading the word about my RUclips channel!! 🙏😊
Thats the best video about garageband I have found on RUclips yet
Wow...thanks so much for the kind words! Glad to help.
Thank you for the very useful information.
Thank you for this. Extremely helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Appreciate your tutorial - Great stuff!
Great. Very helpful.
Very good and helpful video Scott! Thanks much! One thing, the audio level seems to be low.
Thanks for sharing these useful shortcuts. It would be really handy to be able to summon the cycle region to the play head position without finding and then dragging it. I don’t think this is possible? Thanks again.
GarageBand shortcuts! Brilliant and very helpful. Thanks.
Thanks for the Option-Drag one! I could do it on Logic but I didn't know if you could do it on Garageband on Macbook until now!
Happy to help!
Maybe you could redo this one with a more recent version of GarageBand? But luckily, so far the commands are all the same. You might get more views though, because people might click off thinking it's the wrong version/program. Thanks for the tips, all the best
Brilliant tips! Calm and to the point. I particularly like Option + Drag and Y! Thank you!!
Thanks. Yeah, Option-Drag is one of my most used shortcuts.
Thanks for a great video. Same commands as in Logic, which is cool. Keep it up, professor. :)
GREAT, SCOTT!
Great tips. Question: say I cut out a middle portion of a track I don't need and then want align the end & beginning of the two remaining regions together.... is there a shortcut to snap region back together?
Not that I know of...sorry.
Thank you for sharing. A questions. Any shortcut to mute multiple track and turn up and down the volume on the entire project? Thank you again!
100% Helpful. Thank you.
By the way, one command I would add to your list is Shift-Cmd-Z, Redo. To test this, using Garageband MacOS 10.3.5, I selected a track and hit Cmd-D 30 times to duplicate the track. Then, I was able to hit Cmd-Z 30 times, followed by Shift-Cmd-Z 30 times, to arrive back at the starting state. Very good!
Useful if you have done one Undo too many! Or several ...
Thank you so much. This video is being very helpful for me to operate garageband
Thanks Scott!
You bet!
This is great! What if I wanted to click and drag everything to the right aside from a few clips in the beginning? How do I "select all" from the right of the playback ruler without selecting the first couple clips with it?
Try this: Do Select All, which - as you say - will select everything including the first few clips (regions). BUT THEN Shift-Click the first few clips to UNSELECT THEM. Then just drag the rest all together.
Is there a way to move one clip to the one next to it without dragging it? It always drags up to short or ends up going to far and cutting the track down that you dragged it towards. Thanks!
There may be a short cut I don't know about, but you could try copy-paste rather than dragging. Just be sure the playhead is located at the place where you want the copy to appear.
THIS VIDEO CHANGED MY LIFE!!!!!!
Wow!! High praise indeed!
Thank you for excellent Tute. beautifully paced & presented
Thanks Scott. I'm new to Garageband so this was super useful. :)
Glad it was helpful!
I’m doing 5 session on recording multitracks 1-18 channels
Now I want to mix ,,
How can I used the same mix I did for the first song , to the other sessions ?
I don't think you can copy a mix from one GarageBand project to another. I believe in Logic Pro you can do something like that.
@@ScottWatsonMusic thank you 🙏🏼
Dr. Watson, If I set drums to guitar as separate tracks, but want to store the isolated tracts to a file for ready use, do you have a tutorial on this? And the next question, can one then combine the guitars and drums (assuming those are finalized) as one file unit to limit rows? I'm noticing a lot of tracks. Is there a way to save the settings of a track and insert it into a measure in another track while retaining the features of that isolated original piece?
I don't understand your question fully. For instance, when you say "can one then combine the guitars and drums (assuming those are finalized) as one file" to you really mean FILE, or do you mean TRACK? If the former...YES (export the two tracks as an AIF or MP3 file. If the later...not really (unless you do a work-around).
BTW, you can select "New Track with Duplicate Settings" from the Track Menu if you want to replicate things such as DSP effects from one track to another.
@@ScottWatsonMusic You are correct on my misuse of terminology. Say I come up with theme music for a podcast through creating multiple tracks. If I want to combine all the tracks used for the theme music into one master track, and then use that song theme for all my podcasts, how do I unify tracks to be used again and again for different podcast file tracks. I'm not quite understanding how to combine the tracks and then move as one unit to be copied for different podcasts that I'm creating in garage band. thank you so much
Super helpful video! Thanks!
So glad!
Briliant. Thank you!
#11! Thank you!
great thanks Scott!
You're welcome!
This is so helpful thank you!
You're welcome!
this is perfect! thank you heaps man!
Glad it helped!
Thank you!
Great video, thank you! Very useful stuff! Quick question - Sometimes when I move a region around by click/dragging, when I let go it might be off-beat by a very slight bit. Other times it helps me adjust to be in sync with the beats in the bars. Any idea why my playhead thumb sometimes has the auto-adjust setting off? Cheers!
Morgan - Be sure you select "Snap to Grid" from the Edit menu. That's what makes the regions move right to the beat in a track.
One of THE most important shortcuts/tools is the slider for zooming in and out of a track. Not one single video on RUclips shows how to pull the slider up.
Other than moving the Zoom slider with your mouse, do you know a shortcut for zooming in and out?
Yeah I am looking for how to Zoom on IOS and there is a deafening silence !! I am pretty sure its not there, apart from the old finger-poking method.
👌👌👌Most important video thank you very much
Most welcome
Many Thanks 🙏
My pleasure!
Very Helpful - Thanks
Great video!
Thanks!
well i want to know whether if its possible to change time signature in the middle of any music or piece
My Dad made a piano track with 31 songs all on one track... how do I split them up to indued. songs. A lot of cut and paste or something quicker. Thanks
I have a question for anyone who might know. On the old garage band I was able to move the cursor exactly the way I wanted and was able to cut and edit tracks to the exact sound vibration shown on the screen. Now the cursor just jumps and I can't ever pin point it to the exact location on the track I want to edit. Is there a way to change the cursor or something to be able to move more freely? Hope this makes sense and thank you in advance if anyone knows how to help.
Sounds like you have "Snap to Grid" selected in the Edit menu. Unselect that to have control on exact locations for the playhead.
Hey hope yall doin good, i wanted to ask how can i place video on garageband or if theres any other option
I explain that in this tutorial video: ruclips.net/video/2k-hzRmMmtI/видео.html
anybody know how to select everything to the right of the playhead? im editing a podcast and having to cut out dead air so I have to select all but only what is ahead of the playhead. thanks
You can zoom all the way out and click-drag around those regions. You can also shift-click to select regions you missed or to de-select regions you caught accidentally.
@@ScottWatsonMusic yeah that's how I usually do it but it takes ages that way when the recording is hours long. I was just hoping there was a short cut. Thanks though
Perfect! Thanks!
Glad you liked :)
Top stuff thanks Subbed
Awesome, thank you!
Hello! Please advice me on How to move multiple TRACKS/TAKES (NOT “regions”) in GarageBand on MAC: to simply move them up or down in the order of tracks without dragging each track 1 at a time. If this is possible, PLEASE instruct exactly how to do so! 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Unfortunately, I don’t believe that is possible :(
@@ScottWatsonMusic dang it! But, thanks so much for replying & letting me know. If you hear of a way, it’d be great to hear from you. Stay safe 🤝
Very good video
Thanks for the visit
Do you know how to make it so when I click something on the keyboard, I can play my own sound effect? For instance: I hit the “7” key and an applause sounds. Or I hit the “L” key and the laugher sound starts. Need help!!!
That was something you used to be able to do before GarageBand 10. I don't think you can sample and trigger sounds anymore, sadly, because that was a cool feature.
Helpful
Noob question. what is the difference between Command X (cut), and Command T (split)? Great vid, saved to faves so I can memorize them all.
Cut moves a selection out of the project and temporarily onto the system clipboard (which you can paste elsewhere). Split "splits" a region into two bits which you can edit separately, but removes nothing.
good tutorial, subscribed
THANK YOU for subscribing to my channel!
How can I customize them to be like Cubase shortcuts?
Not sure. I don't use Cubase, but I'm unaware of GarageBand shortcuts that can be customized (for instance, assigning which keys accomplish which functions).
Hello,how do deactivate notes,and activate notes?thank you
To "deactivate" notes in a track, click on the speaker icon on the track head. This mutes the track. To activate them, click again on the same (speaker) icon.
The shortcut for Mute (and unmute) of the selected track is M.
Can you make an index to this video? :)
Good idea…will try to ASAP…thanks!
Thanks Scott. Terrific. Except that I wanted to do zoom in the IOS version, and it’s a big giant gaping hole. In fact, much of what do present should sensibly have been ported across, but no. The IOS garageband seems to be a MESS. I am following with a summary.
Yes, other than the virtual instruments I don't find much use for the iOS version of GarageBand. It really is a different app than the desktop version (which is a true, though entry-level, DAW).
are you the one who did the Hercules vs. the Hydra music?
Yes, I am :) You can learn more about all my compositions for band and orchestra, and more, by visiting www.scottwatsonmusic.com
Best regards!
Thx!
No problem!
Thanks
What about shortcuts when editing piano roll
Hi, I have a problem, you seem to know a lot about GarageBand so maybe you can help, because I cannot find the answer after a lot of Googling. I just upgraded to Mojave and when you played a track in GarageBand, the playhead used to follow where the music was playing, i.e. you would see it at all times. Now it doesn't so what I am seeing is not what is playing, and you have to scroll to try and catch yp and that is SO impractical and annoying ... by Googling I found out this is called "catch mode" but I could not find where to enable it in my Garageband. I don't see what use it can be to anyone to have the track stay immobile while the music keeps playing. This is so counterproductive?? Also my computer is in French so if you could tell me what the icons were like, because it's sometimes hard for me to figure out what the french name is bersus what they call it in english. Thanks!
The icon for catch mode looks like a playhead with small triangles on either side.
Damn I'm too stoned to remember even 4 of these haha. I kept replaying it ,still can't remember
Sounds like good incentive to keep your head clear and make some great music!
Thankyou very much /\
You're welcome!
☠BLACK BARON☠1:04 Can someone of the devs please put this timeline stretcher scale bar out of the timeline in User Interface Design ... this thing on top floating over everything is really really really annoying.
I 100% agree!!
Further to my previous post, I would like to comment on Garageband IOS 2.3.8.
- Cannot zoom out further than the longest region. OUCH.
- Shift-Click does not work.
- There seems to be no snap-to-grid
- There is no Option-drag.
- There is NO keyboard command for Zoom. OUCH OUCH.
- There are no commands E B C Y. Perhaps not relevant to the IOS environment.
- Amazingly, O for Loops DOES work. But, weirdly, it does not toggle. I mean, surely that is so slack ...
- Also, A for automation DOES work and DOES toggle. Hooray.
Cheers
By the way I use a bluetooth keyboard with my iPad.
Thanks for the additions/suggestions, Greg. BTW, I barely use GarageBand on iOS so I don't post/share about it...just the Mac OSX computer-based version.
Ripple Delete
Rad
This is a useless daw
You can't glue 2 regions to integrate a cut... No option for that
So forget about garageband
It's a waste of time
I disagree, but it sounds like you've made up your mind. I believe a talented composer/arranger/producer can use almost any tool to create compelling, expressive music. I know I've encounter hundreds of folks who "know how to use ProTools," but the music they create with it is unremarkable. All this to say, IMHO, the tool is much less important than how you use it.
Thank you.
Great video!