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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Save custom patches in GarageBand on Mac
You can save a patch’s settings in the Library and apply the settings to other instruments, or use them in another project.
You can delete a patch you created from the Library, but you can’t delete patches included with GarageBand.
Save a patch
In GarageBand on Mac, select the track you want to use as a starting point for the custom patch.
Change the patch settings by adjusting Smart Controls, or adding or adjusting plug-ins, until you have the sound you want.
Click the Save button in the lower-right corner of the Library.
In the dialogue that appears, enter a name for the saved patch.
Custom patches are saved to a User Patches folder in the Library (created in the Library the first time you save a patch). You can use these patches in any GarageBand project.
Delete a saved patch
In GarageBand on Mac, select the track, then click the Library button
if the Library is not already open.
In the Library, select the patch to delete from the list on the right, then click Delete.
Important: After you delete a patch, it can’t be recovered for any project. Deleting a patch cannot be undone.