GarageBand2. The Missing Manual

2017-07-07 02:10:07

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Playing more tracks makes GarageBand work harder. In many cases, though, you can combine the material from several tracks into a single one.

It's especially easy to combine blue Real Instrument tracks. Figure 10-3 shows the procedure.

Combining green Software Instrument tracks is more difficult, because dragging a region into a different track usually means that its instrument sound changes. Not to worry: You can always turn Software Instrument regions into Real Instrument regions , as described on Section 2.3.2, and then merge them.

Figure 10-3. Top: These three Real Instrument tracks are making this old Power Mac's heart race. There's no good reason for them to occupy different tracks, since their regions aren't playing simultaneously .

Bottom: By dragging all of their regions into a single track, you ease your Mac's burden considerably. The only downside is that you've lost the ability to specify different effect settings for each track.

A reminder: Use this trick only on regions that don't overlap.

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