Apple GarageBand '08 - Manual (Page 77)

Chapter 9 Tutorial 7: Mixing and Adding Effects 77
Adjusting Effects Settings
Each effect has a slider that you can use to adjust the amount of the effect, or a pop-up
menu from which you can choose different effect presets.
To adjust a track’s effects:
1 Select the track, then click the Track Info button to open the Track Info pane.
2 Click the Details triangle to reveal the track’s effects settings.
3 Drag the sliders for the Gate, Echo, and Reverb effects to adjust the amount of each
effect. Choose a new preset from the Visual EQ pop-up menu to adjust the equalizer,
and choose a new preset from the Compressor pop-up menu to adjust the compressor.
If your project is playing, you hear the changes in real time.
4 Choose an effect from one of the effect pop-up menus on the left, then choose an
effect preset for the effect from the preset pop-up menu on the right.
Additional effects you can add include treble reduction, bass reduction, amp
simulation, chorus, flanging, phase shifting, and tremolo. The available effects are listed
in the effect pop-up menu, including any third-party Audio Units effects you have
installed on your computer.
Creating and Saving an Effect Preset
Some effects include several presets, which let you easily adjust the effect’s settings
together to achieve a particular sound.
To choose an effect preset:
m Choose the preset you want from the pop-up menu to the right of the effect.
You can adjust effect presets to fine-tune the sound of the effect, and save your own
presets to use with other instruments or in another project.
To edit an effect preset:
1 Click the Edit button (with the pencil icon) to the right of the effect’s preset pop-up
menu.
The effect’s Preset window appears. Each preset setting has a slider, button, or other
control, which is labeled to indicate its purpose.
2 Drag the sliders in the Preset window to adjust the settings for the preset.
When you adjust an effect preset, it appears as “Manual” in the pop-up menu, so you
know you’ve changed it from the original preset. You can go back and forth between
your manual settings and other presets to compare them before saving the new preset.
You can create your own effect presets and save them to use on another track or in
another project.