Chapter 12

Getting Started

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting acquainted with GarageBand’s global settings

Bullet Configuring GarageBand’s project-specific settings

Bullet Taking control of projects with the control bar

Bullet Working on projects created on an iDevice on your Mac (and vice versa)

Before you work and play with GarageBand on your iDevice, you should familiarize yourself with its settings. These settings are found in two places: Global settings are in the Settings app, and settings specific to the current project are in GarageBand’s Settings menu.

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 both places, accompanied by the usual wit and wisdom and whatever else that I think you might find helpful.

Some of you may think that I’m putting the cart before the horse by covering preferences in Chapter 12, because some of the features these preferences affect won’t appear until later in this Part 4 or in Part 5. But there’s a method to my madness.

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