Appendix C. GarageBand 2 Keyboard Shortcuts
The mouse is for suckers. When there’s no time to lose, efficiency fanatics don’t waste calories lumbering up to those menus. They memorize the keyboard shortcuts instead—at least for the commands they use a lot.
Navigating GarageBand
|
Function |
Keystroke |
|
Play/Pause |
Space bar |
|
Jump to start |
Home or Z |
|
Jump to end |
End or Option-Z |
|
Jump back one measure |
Left arrow |
|
Skip forward one measure |
Right arrow |
|
Jump back one screenful |
Page up |
|
Skip forward one screenful |
Page down |
|
Zoom in |
Control-Left arrow |
|
Zoom out |
Control-Right arrow |
Manipulating Tracks
|
New track |
-Option-N |
|
New basic Real track |
-Shift-N |
|
Duplicate track |
-D |
|
Delete selected track |
-Delete |
|
Select previous/next track |
Up arrow/Down arrow |
|
Mute/unmute selected track |
M |
|
Solo/unsolo selected track |
S |
|
Show/hide track-volume track |
A |
|
Show/hide master track |
-B |
|
Show/hide Track Info dialog box |
-I |
Recording
|
Start/stop recording |
R |
|
Cycling on/off ... |
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