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
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Change General settings in GarageBand on Mac
Use General settings to change how performances are captured, enable Force Touch gestures, reset warnings and more.
To change these settings, choose GarageBand > Settings, then click General.
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Cycle Off: Choose whether software instrument recordings are replaced or merged when recording over existing MIDI regions when Cycle mode is turned off.
Cycle On: Choose whether takes are created or software instrument recordings are merged when recording in Cycle mode.
Enable Force Touch trackpad: Enable additional functions in GarageBand using Force Touch trackpad gestures. For more information, see Force Touch trackpad gestures in GarageBand on Mac.
Note: This tickbox is visible only if you have a Force Touch trackpad.
Open plug-ins in Controls view by default: Open plug-in windows in controls view, making plug-in parameters available for use with VoiceOver.
Reset Warnings: Reset all warnings and alerts that were previously set to “Do not show again”.