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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Force Touch trackpad gestures in GarageBand on Mac
Using a Force Touch trackpad with your Mac, you can perform some GarageBand functions by force-clicking or tapping with three fingers. The trackpad also has haptic feedback built-in that, when Force Touch is turned on, lets you feel a light vibration when you drag a Volume slider to the 0 dB position or a Pan knob to the centre position.
Turn on Force Touch
In GarageBand General settings, select the Enable Force Touch trackpad tickbox.
See General settings.
In macOS System Settings > Trackpad > Point & Click, turn on “Force click and haptic feedback”, then click the “Look up & data detectors” pop-up menu and choose an option:
Force Click with One Finger: Press firmly on the trackpad until you feel a deeper click.
Tap with Three Fingers: Use three fingers to tap the trackpad.
Create a new, empty MIDI region
In the Tracks area of GarageBand on Mac, force-click an empty area in a software instrument track.
Create a new Drummer region
In the Tracks area of GarageBand on Mac, force-click an empty area in a Drummer track.
Add an audio file to an audio track
In the Tracks area of GarageBand on Mac, force-click an empty area in an audio track, then choose an audio file from the menu that appears.
Add a note
In the Piano Roll Editor or Score Editor of GarageBand on Mac, force click an empty part of the editing area.
Delete a note
In the Piano Roll Editor or Score Editor of GarageBand on Mac, force click a note.
Open the New Track dialogue
In the Tracks area of GarageBand on Mac, force click the empty area below the last (lowest) track header.
Add automation points at region borders
In the Tracks area of GarageBand on Mac, force click the automation curve of a region.