Thank you Toby, I'll give it a go. Shirley x On 9 Sep 2011, at 18:50, Toby Leighton wrote:
> I think the cycle button is a once per song thing. its most typically used > when saving a ringtone into iTunes, or re-recording over a piece until you > get it just right, at which point you turn off the cycle and carry on > recording your song. > > For doing more than one edit try this method instead. > > create a new empty track underneath your recording, Thats the plus bottom on > the bottom left of the garage band window, make it a real instrument with no > effects when it asks you. Then press the scissors button next to that plus > button to bring up the editor. If it ever asks about flex time, make sure to > say reset or no, or whatever is appropriate because that is for stretching > music to the beats, and you are dealing with voice so you want to avoid > stretching. > > So in the same way you are used to with the cycle editor, select pieces of > voice and cut (command x) and paste (command v) like in a word processor the > pieces you want to edit to alternate between those two audio tracks. > > In a very simplified way your garageband should look a little like the > attached screenshot. in the top half of the window you can drag the purple > blobs of audio back and forth to get them to line up in the right place. > > When you are finished make sure you have the cycle audio part turned off and > when you press Share...Send song to iTunes, or Export, or burn to disk, > Garageband will flatten both audio tracks back into one and it will sound as > it plays in garageband. > > you can use the same cut and paste between tracks method to do other things > like make unclear parts of dialog sound louder for instance, without having > to over boost the whole track. > > Hope that helps. > > On 9 September 2011 11:16, Shirley Lovett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all > > Can anyone help me with a Garage problem? > > I often record voice scripts and they go fine. If I want to change part of > the recording I know to switch on the cycle button which gives me a yellow > line to stretch to where I want the end of the cut in bit to be. > > My problem is that this works fine the first time I do it, but if I want to > make another change further through the recording, I stop it, switch on the > cycle button as before, but no yellow line appears. > > If I don't use the cycle button, the recording sounds great played back in > garage with the changes in place, but when I take it into Itunes, the > original recording plays. > What am I doing wrong? > > Shirley > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
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