How To Cut A Song In Garageband Ipad

Cutting Tracks with GarageBand The track is the basic building block of a song; each song is made up of one or more tracks. In GarageBand, you can record only one track at a time so that you can adjust and mix separate elements. Edit cells in GarageBand for iPad. You can edit cells in the Live Loops grid in a variety of ways. You can cut, copy, and paste cells, move cells, delete cells, and change cell settings. When you turn on cell editing, you cannot start or stop playback of cells (but you can edit cells that are already playing).

GarageBand User Guide for iPad

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 which 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 FX Remix 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

  • 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

  1. For each XY pad, tap the effect to use for that pad.

  2. Tap the Record button.

  3. 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.

  4. When you finish, tap the Play button to stop recording.

Bypass Remix FX when you play a song

  1. In Tracks view, drag a track header right to show the track controls.

  2. 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.

How To Cut A Song On Garageband Ipad

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).

GarageBand User Guide for iPad

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If you have an external keyboard connected to your iPad, you can use keyboard shortcuts in Tracks view to play, navigate and edit your GarageBand song.

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Action

Shortcut

Start or stop playback

Space bar

Go to the beginning

Return

Move forward

Full stop (.)

Move back

Comma (,)

Create a new track

Option-Command-N

Duplicate the selected track

Command-D

Delete the selected track

Command-Delete

Select previous track

Up Arrow

Select next track

Down Arrow

Solo the selected track

S

Mute the selected track

M

Undo

Command-Z

Redo

Shift-Command-Z

Select all regions or cells

Command-A

Delete the selected regions

Delete

Select the previous region on the selected track

Left Arrow

Select the next region on the selected track

Right Arrow

Add previous region to selection

Shift-Left Arrow

Add next region to selection

Shift-Right Arrow

Split selected region or event at the playhead

Command-T

Join selected regions or notes

Command-J

Cut

Command-X

Copy

Command-C

Paste

Mixvibes cross pack timecode. Command-V

Loop the selected region

L

Start recording

R

Turn the metronome on/off

K

Turn count-in on/off

Shift-K

Show/Hide Remix FX

Option-R

Show/Hide Automation

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Open Loop Browser

O

Instrument Browser - Previous Instrument

Left Arrow

Instrument Browser - Next Instrument

Right Arrow

Show/Hide coaching tips

H

Show Help

Option-H