GarageBand User Guide
- Welcome
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- Play a lesson
- Choose the input source for your guitar
- Customise the lesson window
- See how well you played a lesson
- Measure your progress over time
- Slow down a lesson
- Change the mix of a lesson
- View full-page music notation
- View glossary topics
- Practise guitar chords
- Tune your guitar in a lesson
- Open lessons in the GarageBand window
- Get additional Learn to Play lessons
- If your lesson doesn’t finish downloading
- Touch Bar shortcuts
- Glossary
- Copyright
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Import audio and MIDI files in GarageBand on Mac
You can import audio files of the following file types into a GarageBand project:
AIFF
CAF
WAV
AAC (except protected AAC files)
Apple Lossless
MP3
You can also import MIDI files into a GarageBand project. MIDI is a standard file format for synthesisers and other electronic music instruments. MIDI files don’t contain recorded sound, but do contain data that electronic instruments can use to produce music. MIDI files are available online and can also be exported by many popular music software applications.
Import an audio file from the Finder
In GarageBand on Mac drag the audio file you want to import from the Finder to an audio track or to the empty area below the existing tracks in the Tracks area.
The audio file appears on the track.
Import an audio file from the Music app
In GarageBand on Mac drag the audio file from the list in the Music app to an audio track or to the empty area below the existing tracks in the Tracks area.
Import a MIDI file from the Finder
In GarageBand on Mac drag the MIDI file you want to import from the Finder to a software instrument track or to the empty area below the existing tracks in the Tracks area.
The MIDI file appears on one or more software instrument tracks. You can choose the software instrument used to play the MIDI file in the Library.