[macvoiceover] Re: garage band could keith explain it please?
- From: Keith Reedy <wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:24:47 -0500
Scott,
You have picked one of the most labour intensive parts of GarageBand
to work with.
Sounds like what you are looking for are not only loops, but, maybe
Jingles. You can find them both in the loops browser.
This is a guide which I have not completed, but, give it a look.
*** This is not for the faint of hart.
GarageBand is one of the only programs with built in loops and at this
time, they are not fully accessible with Voiceover.
Good luck and remember, I have told you all I know.
Keith Reedy
Working with loops in GarageBand
Feel free to pass this around.
Please read all of this document before trying to work with loops.
If you are going to be working with GarageBand, please take the time
to download the GarageBand guides from,
www.icanworkthisthing.com
under, MAC with Voiceover, or, at,
www.lioncourt.com
From time to time, I will be quoting from the Book,
Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand, GET THIS BOOK!
I don't have all of the answers, but, maybe just enough of the answers
to help you to find the rest of the answers for all of us.
Getting a loop in to your project is only part of the answer and that
is the thing we will be talking about.
A loop is just a short segment of a recording, some times just a few
seconds. Lingthining a loop and changing keys on a music loop, or,
changing the tipe of purcushion is done by modifying your track and
that is another thing all together.
But first of all, on to moving a loop.
This will be helpful, pressing c will make your loop repeat and
pressing c again will make it stop.
The first trick is to move your selection from the loop browser to the
tracks window. Once you have done this, Garage Band will create a new
track for your loop.
First of all in menus, under control menu, press enter on "show loop
browser, or just press command-l
Now escape from menus and VO keys-right arrow past, media browser, a
slider, then you will come to a table. This is the table where your
loop choices will be placed when you have chosen a group.
The loop browser is a mess, none of the buttons are labeled, but,
thankfully, you really don't need the buttons to choose your loop.
You will need to remember 1 button. The first button after the table
should be dimmed. This button resets the browser so that all of the
buttons are usable.
Now, on to searching for loops. Do the following. With the item
chooser, VO keys-i, search for, "search text field". Once you have
found this field, leave the item chooser with VO keys-space bar. Now
type in your choice, lets say drums and press enter.
Now go back to the table, the easiest way I have found to do this is
to use, VO keys-shift home and VO keys right arrow to the table. You
should find a list of choices.
You will see the name of the loop and some information about it.
Interact with one of the names on the list and make sure the mouse is
on the name, with, VO keys-f5. If it is not, rout the mouse to the
name of the loop with, VO keys-command-f5 and check with VO keys-f5 to
make sure that the mouse has moved.
At this point you can play your loop with VO keys-shift-space bar.
When you find one you like, you can move your loop in to your project
by doing the following.
Press, VO keys-command-shift-space bar
If you do this a lot, you will want to assign a hotkey, or, if you
have a full keyboard, a key on the num-pad-commander.
Now stop interacting and VO keys-left arrow all the way back to the
tracks column.
Make sure that the mouse is on the tracks column with Vo keys-f5, if
it is not, rout your mouse to the tracks column with, VO keys command-
f5, then make sure that it has moved with, VO keys-f5.
Now, drop your selection in to the tracks column, by pressing
VO keys-command-shift-space bar.
Garage Band has created a new track with your loop in it.
Now, play your loop. If it does not work at first, try pressing s,
something may have been soloed.
Your loop may only be a few seconds long.
With this document, we as Voiceover users have really come a very long
way. We have learned how to find a loop and move it to a project,
but, we are not home yet. We must learn how to work with arrange
tracks and lingthining loops and regions. The window where the
timeline information is located does not speak, it just says scrol
area, this must be fixed.
I have written to Apple, PLEASE, write to Apple as well. But until
this window is fixed, please help me to find the workarounds.
Special thanks to, my wife Suzie for helping me to learn this most
complicated screen. And to, Greg Kearney for help with drag and drop.
Keith Reedy
wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx
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