Edit Mp3 On Mac Garageband

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This is a next new tutorial in our Garageband tutorial series. You can read the first tutorials here and here.

Need to remove some background noise, mistakes or unneeded fillers from your audio files? Perhaps you want to clean up a podcast or conference call or a song you’ve just recorded. Well then I highly recommend using Garageband.

Garageband, by far, has one of the most user-friendly interfaces. The easy-to-use software enables quick editing that doesn’t require any specific skills. All you really need to know is how to click and drag and you’re ready to go.

Here are several techniques to help improve your Garageband editing.

Mar 20, 2011  Garageband, by far, has one of the most user-friendly interfaces. The easy-to-use software enables quick editing that doesn’t require any specific skills. All you really need to know is how to click and drag and you’re ready to go. Here are several techniques to help improve your Garageband editing. Simple Cutting and Editing. Part 1: How to Edit MP3 Music with GarageBand Step 1. Download the latest GarageBand application from Apple Mac store and Install it on your Mac. Open GarageBand application, go to 'File' menu and then click on 'New' followed by 'New. Next, you have to give a name to the new.

Simple Cutting and Editing

The first step involves isolating and deleting unwanted recordings. Let’s say you want to delete a segment of a whole audio file. All you need to do is locate the beginning of the segment you want to cut and place the red line there. Go to the Edit menu and click on Split. This will divide the file into two parts. Next, go to the end of the segment you want to delete and split it once again. Now you should have three separate parts. Simply click on the unwanted segment and press delete.

If you want to merge the two remaining parts all you have to do is click on one of them, and drag to connect.

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Fine Tuning Your Audio

Now that you’ve edited out all the excess noise you’ll want to fine tune your recording. Unless you used a professional microphone and recorded your audio in a sound proof room, there will probably be some hiss and crackle in the background. To remove these unwanted sounds you should adjust the volume and the EQ.

On the track menu you’ll see a slider where you can adjust the volume. Sometimes lowering the volume can remove hiss while keeping the recording at an audible level. However it’s not always that simple and you might have to adjust the EQ.

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The EQ graph can be accessed by clicking on the Edit button on the Real Instrument column on the right side. Here you will see a blue wave icon. Click on that to open the EQ graph. This is a little tricky to understand so I suggest playing around with the different parameters until you get the noise reduced. The quality of your voice may change slightly but at least you will be rid of any background noise without too much volume reduction.

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To the left of the volume slider on the track panel you’ll see an arrow pointing downwards. Click this to open the volume meter. By lowering and raising the volume curve you can fade in/out the audio or even crossfade separate audio recordings. Try playing around with this for a few minutes and you’ll get the hang of it in no time.

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Using the GarageBand Track Editor in iLife ’11, you can view the music in a region as though you’re seeing it in a microscope, viewing either the actual notes in a Software Instrument track or the waveform of a Real Instrument track.

To open the Track Editor, select the track to edit and click the Editor button (the one with the scissors) in the lower left corner of the GarageBand window (or choose Control→Show Editor). The Track Editor appears below the timeline and Transport buttons and has its own Zoom slider. Depending on the type of track, you see either a note-by-note representation of a Software Instrument or the waveform of a Real Instrument.

With both kinds of tracks, you can move the region forward (to the right) or backward (to the left) in the timeline. You can zoom in to see larger notes or a more detailed waveform by dragging the Track Editor’s zoom slider in the lower left corner.

Editing Real Instrument tracks in GarageBand ’11

Your performance with a Real Instrument may be slightly off the beat, but you can use the Track Editor to edit the track in one of these ways:

  • Move a region to adjust its location in the song. You can move a region precisely in order to line it up with the beat.

  • Adjust the timing with flex time. You can drag any part of the waveform to change the timing of a note or beat.

    Stretch or shorten the timing of a Real Instrument performance by using flex time.

  • Select, and then cut or copy, a section of a region and paste it into one or more locations in the song. You can cut or copy part of a Real Instrument region and paste it over another part of a region or in another place in the track.

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Editing Software Instrument tracks in GarageBand ’11

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Software Instruments were made for the kind of editing the Track Editor enables you to do. Using the Track Editor, you can change the actual notes of a Software Instrument track (performance or loop), including the note’s duration, pitch, velocity, and location in the timeline. You can also adjust the pitch and fix the timing of notes automatically.

When you open a Software Instrument region in the Track Editor, it starts out in Piano Roll view, which looks like an old-style piano roll with holes that served as instructions to a player piano. The following list describes the different ways you can edit the notes in the Track Editor’s Piano Roll view:

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  • Shorten or lengthen the duration of a note: Drag the lower right corner of the note to resize it. As you drag, the note’s edges snap to the lines in the beat ruler.

  • Change a note’s starting point: Drag the note itself to the left or right, using the timeline grid as a guide.

  • Change a note’s pitch: Drag the note up or down.

  • Change the note’s velocity (from soft to hard): Drag the Velocity slider from left to right.