So when you click and drag you must immediately decide am I dragging left and right or up and down. You can also drag left and right but you only can do in one dimension. Then you can drag each one of these up and down. So I'm going to add another point in the middle there and another point here. The way to do that is to add multiple points. Now you may want more of a curve here than a straight line. Now the volume for all tracks will follow this automation path. I can create another point here and I can drag this down. I can click here to create a point and drag the initial point down. Then you have this line here that you can control. So it obeys the Show or Hide Automation there and you can select Volume here for Automation. It is the Master Track that will control volume for all tracks. I'm going to go to Track and then Show Master Track. The idea is I want to fade them both in and out at the same time. So now I've added a second loop to this and I have two tracks. I can also just click the enable automation button to turn it off and that way it ignores the automation here and I can set one for the entire song. Once I do that it will return to a regular line and then I can position it where I want. I can also select each point and delete the points.
How can you fade in and out the entire song? So to get rid of the automation on this I can do that several ways. Chances are you're going to have multiple tracks if you're working on music in GarageBand. I'll drag this last point all the way down. I'll click here on the line to create a point and I'll click here at the very end to create a point. I can drag the starting point down and now you can see it ramps up the volume. The starting point here and this second point. If I click on that line it's going to create a point there. Maybe right here and what I'm going to do is click. So what we want to do is have it start with the volume completely off and then gradually build up. So if we were to drag it up that would increase the volume. Then here we've got this line in the middle of our track. For fading Volume is exactly what we want. There's actually a bunch of different stuff you can automate. Over here we see a pull down menu and the default one is Volume. So to view Automations you need to go to Mix, Show Automation. An automation is when something gradually changes over time. So the key here is to realize that fading is an automation. But it may not be the effect that you want and it's not going to help you with fade in. If you search you'll find there's is a Create volume fadeout on main output and you can use that just to get the fadeout. So you can look through here and you won't find too much. Here I've just laid in a sample loop and I have it playing for a little while. But once you learn where this functionality is, it's pretty easy to do.Īlright, so note that I'm using GarageBand version 10.3.2. It doesn't seem like there's a fade in or fade out command or there's an easy way to do it or anything like that. You just want to either fade it in or fade it out or both. You have some audio and you want to do what seems like the simplest thing.
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Today I'm going to show you how to fade audio in and out in GarageBand. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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