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
Use automation in the Piano Roll Editor in GarageBand on Mac
You can view region automation data directly in the Piano Roll Editor. This is especially useful with region-based automation, because you can see the notes that will be affected. For information about using Automation, see Add and edit automation points in GarageBand on Mac.
Note: Region automation is the same as MIDI Draw in previous versions ofGarageBand. If you had MIDI Draw data in a project created in a previous version ofGarageBand, it appears as region-based automation data.
Show automation in the Piano Roll Editor
In GarageBand on Mac, do one of the following:
Click the Show/Hide Automation button
in the Piano Roll Editor menu bar.Choose View > Show Automation from the Piano Roll Editor menu bar (or press A).
An Automation button, an Automation Parameter pop-up menu, and an Automation Mode pop-up menu appear at the bottom of the Piano Roll Editor inspector. Existing automation is displayed in the Automation Lane under the main editor window. Click the Cycle Through button to cycle through multiple lanes of automation data.