Hi, I can answer these for you. First you are correct. Regions are segments of audio or midi recorded on a track. To record on to a region you must first turn on the cycle region which can be done by pressing the letter C to toggle it on and off. Then interact with the arrange layout area and navigate to multiple indicators ruler time line and interact again. Now navigate to the cycle region layout iTem. Here you can resize the size of the cycle region, as well as move it a long the timeline. To start moving the region press VO command accent. Now use the left and right arrows to position the region in the timeline. Press escape when done. Now you might want to stretch or shrink the size of the cycle region. This is done by pressing VO command shift accent. You will be given 2 choices. Move the left border or the right border. So for example, If I wanted to add to my verse region on my guitar track and it started on bar 5 and ended at bar 21 I would first move the cycle region to bar 5. Then I would move the right border so the cycle region is 16 bars long. Now I can go to my guitar track, hit record, and play my little heart out. lol. I just combined all your questions into one example. I thought it would be easier. I can create a basic audio tutorial if enough people are interested. Let me know.
hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Dec 30, 2010, at 8:39 AM, f10r14n wrote: > Hello, > > I have been playing around in Garage band for a couple of weeks now > but there's a few things I just don't get . If someone can walk me > through this on skype or IM or iChat that would be awesome, but maybe > answering these general questions will help: > > - First, the whole idea of regions. I understand a region is a portion > of recorded audio on one track. Is this true? Or does it encompass > more then one track? > If the former theory is correct, is it possible to add onto one region > but not on another? For example if you have three regions. An intro, a > chorus and a verse region. How can you easily add a second part to the > chorus region without affecting the other two? For example add a > different instrument or background vocals or so? > -Second thing is the so - called cycle recording. I understand this > creates a sort of region that lets you basically record ov er an > already done piece, possibly adding to it. But how can i see what > selection is indicated? I mean, how do i know what part is being > cycled? Also people tell me to resize regions using voiceOver resizing > commands. I have two questions about that. > 1. What are these commands? > 2. I understand resizing the cycle region increases the amount of bars > it is encompassing, therefore increasing the length thats being > cycled. But why would you want to resize another region? Wouldn't you > be just adding empty bars? > > Sorry if these are newbie questions, its just things i never really > understood. > > Any help apreciated, > Florian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
