HI Paul, I'm just getting started myself. I know very little at this stage. I'm just producing some backing tracks with Apple Loops.
I've been using Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand 11, which can be found in the iBooks Store or from www.takecontrolbooks.com/. I've found it really useful. It's not written with VoiceOver users in mind, but it's not too difficult to infer what a VoiceOver user might be able to do (e.g. press VO-Shift-Space instead of clicking, VO-Comma instead of dragging etc). I got stuck at a few points with stretching and moving regions on the Timeline. I found the following documentation produced by the GarageBand master Ricardo really helpful for learning a couple of VoiceOver tricks: http://icanworkthisthing.com/docs/mac_with_voiceover/audio/GarageBand_6_with_Voiceover_editing_using_loops_and_more_rev3.shtml If you don't want to buy a Take Control Book there are plenty of free resources out there that are probably just as good if not better. The GarageBand help documentation I've found useful as well. I've just downloaded Ricardo's podcasts which I'll now go and listen to. As well, people keep mentioning Safari Online Books which I'll check out too. Anyway, finally, to get to your actual question: The Arrangement Track can be distinguished from the instrument tracks. Each instrument (in my case usually loops) you add to your song (basically referred to in GarageBand as your timeline) becomes a track. When you have lots of these composing a song it can get difficult to move things around. So you can use the Arrangement Track. this allows you to create sections of your song, such as the intro, verse, chorus etc. Then, to rearrange your song you merely need to rearrange these sections or arrangement areas, and all the instrument tracks within each section move accordingly. However, as I haven't actually seen or used the Arrangement Track I can't give you too much more information. I've just read about it in the GarageBand help documentation, which I encourage you to do if you would like more information. Best Nic P.S. Thank you kind sir for the suggestion to look for Ricardo's podcasts! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
