GarageBand User Guide
- Welcome
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- Measure your progress over time
- Slow down a lesson
- Change the mix of a lesson
- View full-page music notation
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- Practice 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
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- Glossary
Quantize note timing in the Score Editor in GarageBand on Mac
You can quantize, or automatically correct, the timing of notes in the Score Editor. This technique is useful when regions in the track contain the right notes, but are not perfectly in time with the project. When you quantize the timing, items are adjusted to the selected note value.
You can use the Time Quantize controls to quantize complete MIDI regions, or quantize selected notes in a MIDI region. Select the Region button to quantize all the notes in selected MIDI regions using the Time Quantize pop-up menu and strength slider. Select the Notes button to quantize individual notes using the Time Quantize pop-up menu and Q (Quantize) button.
Time quantization works nondestructively, for playback only. To recall the original timing, set the value to off.
In the Score Editor, you can also visually quantize the display of notes (independent of their MIDI time quantization) using the Grid pop-up menu, to maintain the readability of notes in the Score Editor while preserving more subtle timing differences in the recorded MIDI notes.
Quantize the timing of MIDI regions in the Score Editor
In the Tracks area of GarageBand on Mac, double-click a MIDI region, then click the Score Editor button.
In the Score Editor inspector, click the Region button.
From the Time Quantize pop-up menu, choose the note value you want to use to quantize the timing of the selected region.
Drag the Strength slider to the left to decrease the strength of quantization.
Quantize the timing of MIDI notes in the Score Editor
In the Tracks area of GarageBand on Mac, double-click a MIDI region, then click the Score Editor button.
In the Score Editor inspector, click the Notes button.
Select the notes you want to quantize.
From the Time Quantize pop-up menu, choose the note value you want to use to quantize the timing of the selected notes.