Apple GarageBand Tutorial: Lesson 1 - Manual (Page 9)

Lesson 1: Building a Basic Arrangement 9
Resizing Regions
You can resize regions by either shortening or lengthening them.
• When you shorten a region, only the visible part of the loop plays.
• When you lengthen a region, you add silence (blank space) to its beginning or end.
To resize a region:
1 Move the pointer over the lower half of either edge of the region. The pointer changes to a resize
pointer, with an arrow pointing away from the region.
2 Drag the edge of the region to shorten it or lengthen it.
Resizing a region by lengthening adds silence to the region. This can be useful if you want to
make copies of the region, each lasting for a certain number of beats.
Note: You can’t lengthen a Real Instrument region beyond its original length.
Moving Regions
You can move a region by dragging it to a new point in the timeline. You can also move a region
to another track of the same type as the region (Real Instrument regions can only be moved to
Real Instrument tracks, and Software Instrument regions can only be moved to Software
Instrument tracks).
To move a region:
• Drag the region left or right to a new point in the timeline.
• Drag the region up or down to another track of the same type.
Two regions cannot overlap in the same track. If you drag a region over part of another region,
the region being covered is shortened to the edge of the overlapping region. If one region
completely covers another region, the region being covered is deleted from the track.
Try adding a new drum or bass loop to the timeline. Move it so it starts at the end of the one
you’ve added earlier, then loop it to create a new rhythmic groove.
Transposing Regions
When you add a loop to the timeline, the loop’s region is matched, or transposed , to the key of
the song. In most situations, you’ll want regions to be in the same key as the song. You can
transpose a region to a different key when you want the song to temporarily move to a new key,
or to create tension between the region and the rest of the song (called
dissonance ).
Resize pointer
Drag the Transpose slider, or type the
number of semitones in the field.