Thanks Ioana, That all made good sense, but I was surprised by the use of the cycle region. Is that necessary? You say that only the cycle region will be shared into iTunes? That's interesting.
----- Original Message ----- From: Ioana Gandrabur To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:20 PM Subject: My procedure for recording tapes with garageband into itunes Hi, Here's a quick overview of how I got my tapes into iTunes. I should say it is an on-going process as we speak. I am no expert about setting levels etc so I will not go into details. I have a tape recorder with line out and I connected it in mic port of my mac mini mid 2010. My husband checked levels to not go into red and adjusted recording level. In fact here I am a bit confused about finding the best way of doing this between recording level and master track volume , etc. Any good pointers about setting this optimally will be appreciated. 1. I open project and select real instrument track. 2.I changed lcd display to time rather than seconds. 3. I used head-phones with monitor on option in track info group so I could hear what I am doing. If you know your tape you could just put monitor off and leave it going and be sure you are there to stop. 4. If it is a music track you could listen as it is recording and stop and re-start recording between tracks. This will create regions on the track. 5. The challenge is how to import this to iTunes so each region is a track. 5.1 In arrange layout area, interact with time line group and finally with instrument track scroll area and select the region you want to import as a track. 5.2 Note start and end time. I always work with the first one so start time is 0:0:0. 5.3 Press c to turn on cycle region. 5.4 In timeline group interact with multiple indicators ruler timeline (it is the first item). 5.5 Here the last item should be a cycle layout item or something of the sort. YOu have to resize it by pressing VO shift command accent and make sure start and end match those of your region for the track. No need to be super precise with milliseconds since we are talking about blank space between songs. 5.6 Press escape when done resizing. 6. Finally with the desired region selected go to share menu and import song to iTunes. It will only bring in the cycled region. 7. (Optional) Personally I find I like to delete the region from the project once it is safely in iTunes to avoid confusion. SO I select the region and press control delete this moves the other region back to fill space. So for ex region 2 will now be moved to beginning of song. 8. repeat steps 5.x for subsequent regions. I know, not very easy I guess that's where Amadeus might make things easier. If anyone knows how to auto split track detecting silence in garageband it would be cool. Hope this helps someone. Best, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Dec 18, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: Yes, please post your information. All GarageBand discoveries are worth posting. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ioana Gandrabur To: MacVisionaries Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:44 PM Subject: solved Re: A few questions about GarageBand HI all, I answered my own questions about renaming regions and splitting tape into tracks. If anyone is interested ask me for steps and I will post. Best, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Dec 18, 2012, at 12:45 AM, Ioana Gandrabur <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I am trying to transfer music tapes to my Mac using GarageBand. What is the best way to separate the tape in tracks? Also, how can I rename regions to better reflect what is recorded in each region? I remember having seen this control somewhere but I couldn't find it again later Thanks for your help, Ioana -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
