My wife challenged me with finding out how to edit an audio track she had recorded so I Googled 'how to start an audio edit in Garage Band' and your super video came up first. It's EXACTLY what I needed and so simple and straightforward, THANK YOU!
Usually, I remove GarageBand from my devices and use Audacity. This goes against my instincts to always use Apple software. Frankly I had no idea how much better GarageBand is for doing these simple things. Great video, to add to your entire website of great Apple how-to videos. I encourage everyone who uses Apple hardware to share your channel with other Apple users. This is the single best channel I have discovered for quickly ramping up one's skill set, and it's superior to both Apple help files and their support forums. Top drawer work, Gary. Heading over to Patreon to show my support financially. Excellent.
Thank you! Within the first 1:45 you'd already given me more than most other video tutorials for how to get started with my dance mix project! Excellent!
Having spent a frustrating half hour trying to stop the cursor from speeding on past the newly edited end of the track, I watched your tutorial and sorted it in a minute. Many thanks!
You are a natural teacher, so thank you for offering this low-anxiety intro to audio editing on GarageBand. I took notes every step of the way and was able to do so up until the end, when you discussed filters and went a little fast for me. I need to learn an easy method for grabbing audio segments off of a TH-cam meeting video and then mixing it with my narration--the latter part I think I can do, based on your instruction, but editing the TH-cam video to import only selected audio sections will be the challenge. Thank you!
Thank you SO very much for making this video! I used to use Audacity years ago. My first attempts using GarageBand earlier today were...sloppy. This covers the basics very well. My only suggestion on content to add is how to cut a segment from the middle of a section. That's what has messed me up the most so far.
This is what I was desperately looking for. Perfectly explained. Finding such useful videos on youtube is like finding a treasure in a jungle :-) Thanks again!
haha Gary, what don't you know about softwares and apple "complexities"!!! You're the only non-boring yet not too fast teacher that I really think is the best of the best of the best!!! Thanks again, Gary!
Super useful. I used to use Garage Band for recording and other things but that was years and versions ago and I was just looking for a quick reminder of how to edit audio. Ten minutes and done. Thank you.
One of the best tutorials I've seen on youtube. Simple, to the point, not overly complicated but provides all the basics to actulally do what you need. Thank you for taking the time to make this 😊
Thank you so much--just what I need. I'm so grateful.Very straightforward and so clear. Heaven sent tutorial! You are such a good teacher. I can really use this training to work on a long audio project.
Thank you, this video was excellent and exactly what I was looking for, for my needs. I only need Garage Band to occasionally record and edit my vocals but even more importantly to record and edit me playing my Native American Flute. All of the settings, features and instruction I needed was here in this one video. Thank you again.
I used to produce an audio podcast and used GB in much the same way. Still I’ve found this video to be a useful tool when I find the time to revisit the topic. Thanks for another great video Gary.
Thanks for the tip Gary, I recently bought cable for my electric guitar and can now plug myself directly into my mac. I can do things today that was much more difficult 20 years ago (remember tape dubbing ? One screw up and you had to start from scratch )
Thanks for speaking english so clearly, I can understand 100% while many others just mumble and spit words that only people in their own neighborhood can understand
Mate, this was amazing. I’ve been looking to cut my podcast up and never even thought about garage band. As you Said it’s almost intimidating. Good job simplifying it!
your a really good teacher other people make learning hard to understand where was you at back in high school days haha love what your doing you should do one for fl studio
Very informative video today! To be honest I have never used it. In my mind I thought it was for young people getting away from their parents and making music in their garage. Well, I was wrong. LOL! Thank you, Gary! 👍🏻❤️
You can also use Garageband to mix multitrack audio for video. It can play back I believe any QT supported video from the start of the timeline. And then with the automation tools, program the mix levels one channel/fader at a time. Really cool. My only wish, as a non-musician audio nerd: Have the ability to make GB just a mixer and hide the music tools.
have a friend who uses GB and she messaged me asking where the "little yellow line" went after the update :) your video made it super easy to help her out. thanks!
I’m kinda slow on this but maybe you or anybody can help me. I have a song that has a part where an instrument plays for like one second but I would like it to stand out more. Is there a way to edit that particular instrument?
@@macmost What I failed to mention is that it’s a song from my favorite band and there is one part of the song that bugs me cause it’s too faint. Is not a song I composed or anything lol. I don’t know of I’m making sense. Sorry for the trouble.
@@CFernandoC So the instruments aren't on separate tracks, it is just a song all in one track. If the instrument is playing by itself with nothing else at that time, then you can use automation curves to just boost the volume in that one second. But if other instruments are playing at the same time then it will take some serious audio engineering to accomplish this. macmost.com/automation-curves-in-garageband.html
@@macmost Ah damn and to make it worse it’s an instrument I hear but don’t know what is used lol all I know it’s like a chime. I’ll keep looking. Thanks for your help
I liked the OLD GarageBand. I found it pretty intuitive to use. I got frustrated with the new GarargeBand because it was more complicated than I needed or wanted so I never used it. I recently found the need to use the new GarageBand, but most TH-cam tutorial videos was unhelpful except yours which I found straightforward on basic editing. The only problem with your video is on AUTOMATION. In your video, you just click ONCE on the yellow line and a volume point appears on the yellow line. That didn't work for me. After doing some additional research, I found that I had to DOUBLE CLICK on the yellow line to get a volume point.
Why there is no Tempo and Key for the loops in the browser of Garageband 10.4 or higher version? The older versions of Garageband have Tempo and Key for the loops in the browser.
oh goody! i admit i'am not the sharpest tool in the box, but, i learned more in this vid' than i have in three days searching and pondering Garage Band so called help Files (Grrr) If Garage Band has a beginner tutorial that walks us thru a first project i dint find it? And if they dont... WHY NOT!?!!??!?
Do you know how to go back and edit a section while not affecting all your other volume automations? I have been working on a 5 minute mix of songs and all the cuts/volume automation is perfect, but now I want to add some more music to the beginning and if I do that, it will effect all my volume automations on the rest of the song because it will have moved all the other tracks..
Thanks much for this useful crash course. Is there a minimum duration for a track? It doesn't seem possible to drag the timey cursor thing to a track duration under 4 seconds...
You mean after they are recorded? I don't know if there is an automatic way to do that, but you could always zoom in the maximum amount and adjust left and right.
Excellent tutorial. Could you demonstrate how to adjust several songs to have the same volume in playback after exporting? I have a set list but they all have different volume levels when I’m playing them. Some are way lower some are way higher. Also is there a decent VU meter available for garage band for MAC computers? The garage band meter really bites the big one. Thanks You.
I recorded a series of songs of a band. All of the songs are recorded at the same time. I want to save these songs individually. I know I could cut the track and then reload the file again and then cut and so on. but is there a way to save them without closing the file. and reopening it? thx for the lessons here too great and very clear.
you're a great teacher! do you have any videos on how to finalize and clean up audio to sound as professional as possible? also do you do one on one tutoring.
I'd ask an audio engineer that. "Clean up" is a broad term you probably want to do a variety of things and learn some techniques and skills there. No, I don't do any tutoring, sorry.
Ok so i tried this exactly the way you show it and im importing a large m4a file and it just stopped loading it. It just stops completely and doesnt load anything. Any idea what i can do ?
Came to find out how to easily cut out stuff in the middle of an audio file. Didn’t get that. Do I have to cut the file in two and then trim the edges? Seems like a workaround for such a common action. Doing an audiobook of The Lord of the Rings for my kinds and have to clean up my mistakes:)
I upgraded to Catalina and now Garage band does not work. GB is not listed in my purchases as it originally came with my late 2013 MacBook Pro. What can I do?
This was soooo helpful! BUT once I cut the beginning of the track I can’t seem to move it so there isn’t blank audio before the song starts. Help please!
Is there a way to strip out all unused audio in Garageband.? I have a multitrack recording I would like to send to a producer to clean up. The file contains lots of audio regions that are edited and so most of that audio does not get used in my final mix. If I could strip that away the file size would be way smaller for the project. Other DAWS I use can do this, but I don't know the process for GB. Would be a useful tutorial if there is a way .Thanks for what you do!!
I realise I can just export each track as stems (have done this), but am looking for the less time consuming method which also allows me to keep all plugins intact.
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Exactly what I was looking for. Explained so well without any nonsense. Really appreciate your teaching style. Thank you
My wife challenged me with finding out how to edit an audio track she had recorded so I Googled 'how to start an audio edit in Garage Band' and your super video came up first. It's EXACTLY what I needed and so simple and straightforward, THANK YOU!
Usually, I remove GarageBand from my devices and use Audacity. This goes against my instincts to always use Apple software. Frankly I had no idea how much better GarageBand is for doing these simple things. Great video, to add to your entire website of great Apple how-to videos. I encourage everyone who uses Apple hardware to share your channel with other Apple users. This is the single best channel I have discovered for quickly ramping up one's skill set, and it's superior to both Apple help files and their support forums. Top drawer work, Gary. Heading over to Patreon to show my support financially. Excellent.
Thanks!
Thank you! Within the first 1:45 you'd already given me more than most other video tutorials for how to get started with my dance mix project! Excellent!
Having spent a frustrating half hour trying to stop the cursor from speeding on past the newly edited end of the track, I watched your tutorial and sorted it in a minute. Many thanks!
You are a natural teacher, so thank you for offering this low-anxiety intro to audio editing on GarageBand. I took notes every step of the way and was able to do so up until the end, when you discussed filters and went a little fast for me. I need to learn an easy method for grabbing audio segments off of a TH-cam meeting video and then mixing it with my narration--the latter part I think I can do, based on your instruction, but editing the TH-cam video to import only selected audio sections will be the challenge. Thank you!
Thank you SO very much for making this video! I used to use Audacity years ago. My first attempts using GarageBand earlier today were...sloppy. This covers the basics very well. My only suggestion on content to add is how to cut a segment from the middle of a section. That's what has messed me up the most so far.
This is what I was desperately looking for. Perfectly explained. Finding such useful videos on youtube is like finding a treasure in a jungle :-) Thanks again!
haha Gary, what don't you know about softwares and apple "complexities"!!! You're the only non-boring yet not too fast teacher that I really think is the best of the best of the best!!! Thanks again, Gary!
I am a Mac user for 7 years and I have never thought that garage band is that useful, thanks a lot
Super useful. I used to use Garage Band for recording and other things but that was years and versions ago and I was just looking for a quick reminder of how to edit audio. Ten minutes and done. Thank you.
One of the best tutorials I've seen on youtube. Simple, to the point, not overly complicated but provides all the basics to actulally do what you need. Thank you for taking the time to make this 😊
Thank you so much--just what I need. I'm so grateful.Very straightforward and so clear. Heaven sent tutorial! You are such a good teacher. I can really use this training to work on a long audio project.
Thank you, this video was excellent and exactly what I was looking for, for my needs. I only need Garage Band to occasionally record and edit my vocals but even more importantly to record and edit me playing my Native American Flute. All of the settings, features and instruction I needed was here in this one video. Thank you again.
So much helpful information done so professionally and easy to understand. Thank you Gary. You have helped this old man get back on track.
I used to produce an audio podcast and used GB in much the same way. Still I’ve found this video to be a useful tool when I find the time to revisit the topic. Thanks for another great video Gary.
thoughts on doing a podcast?
Thanks so much for making this so clear and easy. After watching this I was able to edit my audio with no problems at all. Again, thanks so much.
Thanks for the tip Gary, I recently bought cable for my electric guitar and can now plug myself directly into my mac. I can do things today that was much more difficult 20 years ago (remember tape dubbing ? One screw up and you had to start from scratch )
Thanks for speaking english so clearly, I can understand 100% while many others just mumble and spit words that only people in their own neighborhood can understand
Diction is *KEY*!!!!
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You are incapable of disappointing. Thank you SO MUCH for your detailed, patient explanations. You are the BEST. Thank you!
I have wateched dozens of GarageBand tutorials and this was by far the most informative. Thank you!
Mate, this was amazing. I’ve been looking to cut my podcast up and never even thought about garage band. As you Said it’s almost intimidating. Good job simplifying it!
GARY!!!!! Out of all the others I’ve watched, this was nothing but the BEST tutorial I’ve watched!!!! Definitely subscribed! Thank you!
I've watched a ton of tutorials on GarageBand and this is the best, by far. Thank you!
I hope that you get soon the 200k subscribers!
I hope you get the 1 milion
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this is what i was looking for, how i can edit the audio over my vocals. very well explained to the point and simple.
Tried 2 others before yours (and still had to use trial and error!) You're a great teacher!
Another good blog Gary. Now, when are we going to see the interview with the wombat? 🤪😜👍🏻
So clear and straight to the point. I dont usually like youtube videos ever (oops) but this video was actually helpful. Thank you
your a really good teacher other people make learning hard to understand where was you at back in high school days haha love what your doing you should do one for fl studio
Very informative video today! To be honest I have never used it. In my mind I thought it was for young people getting away from their parents and making music in their garage. Well, I was wrong. LOL! Thank you, Gary! 👍🏻❤️
Excellent presentation! I found this video to be very informative.
No way not only did you teach me how to use numbers, you got GarageBand too !! Amazing 🙌 you are my hero ❤
Great simple and easy to understand explanations. Thank you!
You can also use Garageband to mix multitrack audio for video. It can play back I believe any QT supported video from the start of the timeline. And then with the automation tools, program the mix levels one channel/fader at a time. Really cool. My only wish, as a non-musician audio nerd: Have the ability to make GB just a mixer and hide the music tools.
have a friend who uses GB and she messaged me asking where the "little yellow line" went after the update :) your video made it super easy to help her out. thanks!
THAAAAANK YOUUUU!!!! Finally I've figured out GarageBand.
Wow, just another amazing tutorial. I have learned so much from you (in my migration from PC to MacBook). Thanks!
I’m kinda slow on this but maybe you or anybody can help me. I have a song that has a part where an instrument plays for like one second but I would like it to stand out more. Is there a way to edit that particular instrument?
If it isn't already in its own track, move that one part to its own track. Then on the left side increase the volume of that track.
@@macmost What I failed to mention is that it’s a song from my favorite band and there is one part of the song that bugs me cause it’s too faint. Is not a song I composed or anything lol. I don’t know of I’m making sense. Sorry for the trouble.
@@CFernandoC So the instruments aren't on separate tracks, it is just a song all in one track. If the instrument is playing by itself with nothing else at that time, then you can use automation curves to just boost the volume in that one second. But if other instruments are playing at the same time then it will take some serious audio engineering to accomplish this. macmost.com/automation-curves-in-garageband.html
@@macmost Ah damn and to make it worse it’s an instrument I hear but don’t know what is used lol all I know it’s like a chime. I’ll keep looking. Thanks for your help
very clear and concise for a beginner like me, thank you so much
exactly what I needed! Excellent Presentation, thanks so much
Concise yet highly effective! Brilliant!!
Thanks for all your tutorials! Use them a lot
Super helpful for my first time using this tool. Thank you so much!
Best Mac-channel out ther!
Absolutely amazing tutorial. Thank you a TON.
Thank you so so much for this video. It was easy to understand and so easy to learn.
Very useful info - thank you!🙏🏼👍🏼😊
SO HELPFUL ! Thank you SO MUCH, Gary !
Thank you so so so so so much for this video, it helped a LOT ! You are the best !
Before watching your video,I felt it so hard to learn how to edit audio in GarageBand. Wonderful video and thank you so much😊
What a great video!!! Thanks so much Gary...You are appreciated!
This was extremely helpful. Thank you so much.
Thank you! Very useful and beginner friendly!
Came here and found everything I was looking for. Thanks!
I liked the OLD GarageBand. I found it pretty intuitive to use. I got frustrated with the new GarargeBand because it was more complicated than I needed or wanted so I never used it. I recently found the need to use the new GarageBand, but most TH-cam tutorial videos was unhelpful except yours which I found straightforward on basic editing. The only problem with your video is on AUTOMATION. In your video, you just click ONCE on the yellow line and a volume point appears on the yellow line. That didn't work for me. After doing some additional research, I found that I had to DOUBLE CLICK on the yellow line to get a volume point.
amazing thank you Gary, such clarity
As below. Fabulously clear, fabulously understandable. Thank you.
This was really helpful, thank you so much 🙂🙏
Amazing, you are a great teacher! Just what I needed!!!!!!!
Thank you. This was absolutely helpful.
This video is amazing!!! Straight forward with no BS. Thank you!
I finally understand someone explaining GB.
Why there is no Tempo and Key for the loops in the browser of Garageband 10.4 or higher version? The older versions of Garageband have Tempo and Key for the loops in the browser.
Very well done, as usual, Rosey. Thank you🌟👏👍
Thank you so much for showing how to edit on Garageband. This is so helpful.
Best video on GarageBand…. Thank you
oh goody! i admit i'am not the sharpest tool in the box, but, i learned more in this vid' than i have in three days searching and pondering Garage Band so called help Files (Grrr) If Garage Band has a beginner tutorial that walks us thru a first project i dint find it? And if they dont... WHY NOT!?!!??!?
This was really helpful. Thanks!
Do you know how to go back and edit a section while not affecting all your other volume automations? I have been working on a 5 minute mix of songs and all the cuts/volume automation is perfect, but now I want to add some more music to the beginning and if I do that, it will effect all my volume automations on the rest of the song because it will have moved all the other tracks..
Is there an easy way to nudge audio left or right in GarageBand?
Thank you. Usually I can just figure things out but these days I'm too scatterbrained. This helped.
Very Good Video . Excellent basic tips
Thank you so much Gray, really informative & clear concise 😊😊😊
Thanks Gary. Clean, clear concise.
Thank you for the very helpful video!!
You helped me greatly! Thank you!
Thanks much for this useful crash course. Is there a minimum duration for a track? It doesn't seem possible to drag the timey cursor thing to a track duration under 4 seconds...
What are you making that is that short? Maybe use something like Audacity instead for that.
Very good, Gary!
Thanks. Just what i needed. What if 2 different recordings needs to be synced. How can that be done ?
You mean after they are recorded? I don't know if there is an automatic way to do that, but you could always zoom in the maximum amount and adjust left and right.
Thank you Gary. Very informative and to the point.
Excellent tutorial. Could you demonstrate how to adjust several songs to have the same volume in playback after exporting? I have a set list but they all have different volume levels when I’m playing them. Some are way lower some are way higher. Also is there a decent VU meter available for garage band for MAC computers? The garage band meter really bites the big one.
Thanks You.
I don't know of a way to do that automatically. You'll have to adjust it for each project.
I presume if I want to edit out a cough, I would do control T before and after that cough - similar to how I would blade a video cut in Final Cut Pro?
Sure. Try it and see.
I recorded a series of songs of a band. All of the songs are recorded at the same time. I want to save these songs individually. I know I could cut the track and then reload the file again and then cut and so on. but is there a way to save them without closing the file. and reopening it? thx for the lessons here too great and very clear.
Cut, export, undo, repeat.
Thank you for this video!!!! SO HELPFUL :)
How do you normalize multiple tracks on GarageBand?
I don't know if you can.
you're a great teacher! do you have any videos on how to finalize and clean up audio to sound as professional as possible? also do you do one on one tutoring.
I'd ask an audio engineer that. "Clean up" is a broad term you probably want to do a variety of things and learn some techniques and skills there. No, I don't do any tutoring, sorry.
Ok so i tried this exactly the way you show it and im importing a large m4a file and it just stopped loading it. It just stops completely and doesnt load anything. Any idea what i can do ?
I ALWAYS USE YOUR VIDEOS FOR HELP, YOR ARE GOOD INSTRUCTOR
hi there, I have a question. How to add new audio clip in a track? Also how can I move the splitted sections of an audio to insert the new clip?
Drag and drop any audio file into GarageBand to add it. You can drag the sections of a track to move them.
Nice video! You maken the best Mac videos. You kwark so much from your videos! Insane!
Came to find out how to easily cut out stuff in the middle of an audio file. Didn’t get that. Do I have to cut the file in two and then trim the edges? Seems like a workaround for such a common action.
Doing an audiobook of The Lord of the Rings for my kinds and have to clean up my mistakes:)
I upgraded to Catalina and now Garage band does not work. GB is not listed in my purchases as it originally came with my late 2013 MacBook Pro. What can I do?
This was soooo helpful! BUT once I cut the beginning of the track I can’t seem to move it so there isn’t blank audio before the song starts. Help please!
Just select it and drag.
Is there a way to strip out all unused audio in Garageband.? I have a multitrack recording I would like to send to a producer to clean up. The file contains lots of audio regions that are edited and so most of that audio does not get used in my final mix. If I could strip that away the file size would be way smaller for the project. Other DAWS I use can do this, but I don't know the process for GB. Would be a useful tutorial if there is a way .Thanks for what you do!!
I realise I can just export each track as stems (have done this), but am looking for the less time consuming method which also allows me to keep all plugins intact.
So very useful. Thank you, Gary.
Great video! Thanks!
Really excellent! Thank you.
Thank you for this tutorial!
thank you for the captions.