Apple GarageBand '09 - Manual (Page 84)

84 Chapter 8 Tutorial 6: Arranging and Editing Your Music
Resizing Regions
You can resize regions by either shortening or lengthening them. You can shorten both
Real Instrument and Software Instrument regions so that only the visible part of the
region plays. You can lengthen Software Instrument regions (but not Real Instrument
regions) to add silence to the beginning or end of the region.
To resize a region:
1 Move the pointer over the lower half of either edge of the region. The pointer changes
to a resize pointer, with an arrow pointing away from the region.
2 Drag the edge of the region to shorten it or lengthen it.
Resizing a region by lengthening adds silence to the region. This can be useful if you
want to make copies of the region, each lasting for a certain number of beats.
Note: You can’t resize a Real Instrument region beyond its original length. Also, you can
only resize a Real Instrument region containing multiple-take recordings from the right
edge, not the left. You can lengthen a Software Instrument region with multiple-take
recordings to the left, but not shorten it.
Looping Regions
You can loop a region so that it repeats over time. When you loop a region, it plays for
as much time as you extend it in the timeline.
To loop a region:
1 Move the pointer over the upper half of the right edge of the region. The pointer
changes to a loop pointer, with a circular arrow.
2 Drag the right edge of the region to the point where you want it to stop playing. When
you play the project, the region will loop repeatedly to this point.
When you loop a region, the notches at the top and bottom of the region show the
beginning and end of each repetition. You can drag to the end of a repetition or to
anywhere in the duration of the loop.
Resize pointer
Loop pointer