GarageBand User Guide
- Welcome
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- Play a lesson
- Choose the input source for your guitar
- Customize 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
- 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
- Touch Bar shortcuts
- Glossary
- Copyright
Use the Transform Pad in GarageBand on Mac
GarageBand includes a set of patches that use a powerful synthesizer engine. When one of these patches is selected, the Transform Pad appears in the Smart Controls pane. You can adjust the sound of the patch by dragging the rectangular framing box around the Transform Pad.
Each of the eight sections (called snapshots) in the Transform Pad represents a complete group of settings that control the sound of the patch. When the framing box is over one snapshot, you hear the sound of that snapshot. When the framing box partially covers multiple snapshots, the sound of those snapshots is transformed to create a new sound. The amount which each covered snapshot contributes to the sound is determined by how much of the framing box covers the snapshot.
On a Mac equipped with a Touch Bar, you can use the Touch Bar to select and morph between Transform Pad snapshots.
Control the sound of a patch using the Transform Pad
To play using a single snapshot: Drag the framing box over the snapshot.
To transform the sound between snapshots: Drag the framing box so that it partially covers multiple snapshots.
Patches using the Transform Pad include Deep Synth Bass, Classic Techno Lead, and Celestial Voices.