
How to properly use the Garage Band interface; learn how to create your own electronic music in this free instructional video.
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"Hey everybody, my name is Matt and I am speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. Alright, so we've successfully completed a new project in garage band and we are going to be presented with this screen here. This is the main interface for garage band, so you are going to want to probably familiarize yourself with this. Over here on the left, you will see tracks. These are going to be all the different tracks that you have in a project. You'll see some icons here that we will get into a little later. To the right of that underneath mixer, you can control the volume of each individual track here. You can also control the pan. You can pan left or right for each individual track. To the right of that you will see your main time line. You can scroll left and right by clicking and dragging this arrow here and you will see the time change accordingly down here at the bottom. You can zoom in and out of your time line by clicking this arrow here and dragging to the left to zoom out and dragging to the right it will zoom in for more detail view. Over here to the right of your time, you will see a volume slider. This is your master volume control and it will control the volume of all of your tracks together. To the left of your time here, you will see some VCR type controls and you can use these to play, rewind, fast forward and also record. You will also see some icons here on the bottom left and bottom right which we will get into a little bit later. These you just basically create new tracks and can browse different loops and can get more information about each individual track and do some other settings there. Like I said we will get into those a little bit later but this is the main interface for garage band and like I said you should mess around and familiarize yourself with this."
Expert Village: Matt Nichols
Video Series: Computers
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