Apple GarageBand '08 - Manual (Page 51)

Chapter 6 Tutorial 4: Playing and Recording Software Instruments 51
4 Click the Record button to start recording.
5 Start playing your music keyboard, clicking notes on the onscreen music keyboard, or
using Musical Typing. As you record, a new region appears in the selected Software
Instrument track.
6 When you are finished, click the Record button again to stop recording. Click the Play
button to stop the project playing.
After you record, you can listen to your new recorded part to see how you like it.
To hear the new recording:
1 Move the playhead to the point in the timeline where the new region starts (align it
with the left edge of the region).
You can also move the playhead to an earlier point in the project, or to the beginning
of the project, to hear the new recording in the context of the project.
2 Click the Play button, or press the Space bar.
Recording a Software Instrument with the Cycle Region
As with a Real Instrument, you can record a Software Instrument using a cycle region.
When you record a Software Instrument with a cycle region, you can keep recording for
as many times as the cycle region repeats. By default, each new cycle is added as a new
take. You can change the default behavior in the General pane of GarageBand
preferences so that multiple recordings you make using the cycle region are merged
into a single take.
For information on recording using a cycle region, see “Recording Multiple Takes with
the Cycle Region” on page 42.
Play button
Cycle button
Record button