hello it's Patrick here from the GarageBandguide.com. When it comes to
playing and recording in time nobody's perfect
we all make timing slip-ups no and again and I'm sure I'm not the only garriage
band user who's had their Mac slash GarageBand itself
slash MIDI controller galette show or freeze on them while in the middle of
capturing an epic genre-defining software instrument track recording
luckily GarageBand from Mac has an incredibly useful built-in feature that
will help you fix any timing errors in your software instrument tracks in this
video I'll show you how to use it
using the quantize feature and any software instrument tracks editor window
you can automatically correct the timing of notes in MIDI regions so if you've
ever found yourself and the infuriating situation of having the notes and your
recording being correct but they are not perfectly in time of the rest of the
project then here's the fix so here's a simple software instrument recording and
the timing is way off have a listen
I have a couple of options of how to fix this piss-poor timing with the offending
software instrument track selected I need to open the editor window either by
clicking on the scissors icon in the top left selecting show editor from the View
menu and the toolbar at the top of the screen or by hitting the shortcut key E
if I want to have the timing for every note in the track quantized I just need
to select every region in that track by clicking on my software instruments
track header you can see once I've done that all the regions in that track are
highlighted then if I make sure the region
and the editor window is selected I can choose a note value that I want to use
to quantize the notes in the regions I have selected
here's how that quantized recording sounds compared to the previously out of
time original
you
if you're just having trouble with a couple or even a single MIDI notes
timing you can fix those on their own with quantizing - again with the
software instrument track selected and the editor window open click on a single
MIDI note or drag and select multiple notes to highlight make sure the notes
tab is selected in the editor when the less time and any note of value you
choose will affect the highlighted MIDI notes only this can be useful if there's
only a few really out of time notes in your recording I find myself using this
single note quantization most often on the first note that I've recorded
there's nothing more irritating than having the first note and your software
instrument recording not trigger on playback because the timing is just a
tiny bit out
selecting that first we were Bluth and quantizing it as a quick and easy way to
fix this issue
working out what not value to choose when quantizing is as simple as matching
up to the amount of beats and a bar though if you're not sure of this off at
the top of your head are we a bit of experimentation will get
you there as well
so there you have it that's how to fix the timing of your software instrument
tracks and GarageBand for Mac if you're just getting started with GarageBand on
Mac or just want a refresh on the basics you can grab my GarageBand Quick Start
Guide absolutely free I'll put a link to that in the description below
I've been patrick from the GarageBand guide.com and I'll see you next time
bye for now