Apple GarageBand 2.0 - Manual (Page 43)

Chapter 6 Working With Real Instruments 43
4 Click the Record button to start recording.
5 Start playing your instrument, or singing into your microphone. As you record, a new
region appears in the selected Real Instrument track with the music you record.
6 When you are finished, click the Play button to stop recording.
An audio waveform appears in the newly recorded region.
After you record, you can listen to your new recorded part to see how you like it.
To hear the new recording:
1 Move the playhead to the point in the timeline where the new region starts (align it
with the left edge of the region). You can also move the playhead to an earlier point in
the song, or to the beginning of the song, to hear the new recording in the context of
the song.
2 Click the Play button, or press the Space bar.
Recording a Real Instrument With the Cycle Region
GarageBand lets you record over a specific part of a song. 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 song, 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 you want to start recording, then
drag the end of the cycle region to the point in the timeline 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.
Play button
Cycle button
Record button