Chapter 4

Getting Started

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Using the General pane

Bullet Working with the Audio/MIDI pane

Bullet Keeping time with the Metronome pane

Bullet Learn about loop options in the Loops pane

Bullet Adding your own info to the My Info pane

Bullet Gaining experience with the Advanced pane

Before you work and play with GarageBand, you should familiarize yourself with its six settings panes and their contents. These settings are global and generally affect every project you create.

You probably don’t know how you like your settings, at least not yet. But you will in just a few short pages. This chapter helps you adjust each item in every settings pane, accompanied by the usual wit and wisdom and whatever else that I think you may find helpful.

Some of you may think that I’m putting the cart before the horse by covering settings in Chapter 4, because some of the features that these settings affect are not introduced ...

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