
124 Recording and Editing Software Instruments
Quantizing Notes in a Region
Rather than manually moving each and every note in a region to fix the timing, you can
quantize the timing. Quantizing is a digital music term for automatically fixing timing
based on set parameters. In this case, GarageBand will automatically move all the notes to
the nearest gridline based on the settings in the Piano Roll Editor inspector.
You can use the Time Quantize button to fix the timing of all the notes in an entire region or
selected notes. These timing changes are nondestructive. The original timing is never lost, so
you can turn off Time Quantize at any time to return to the original recorded timing.
Region Name field
Time Quantize pop-up menu
Transpose slider
One thing to keep in mind is that the Time Quantize feature is selection based. If you have
a note selected, only that note will be fixed. To fix all the notes in a region at once, you
need to first deselect any notes. The Piano Roll Editor inspector controls change depend-
ing on whether you have a region (all notes) or individual notes selected. The Region or
Notes tabs change automatically based on your selections.
1 Click any empty space in the editor display area to deselect all notes within the
region. The top of the inspector shows which items will be modified.
2 In the Piano Roll Editor inspector, type My in the Region Name field so that the name
of the region changes to My Fingerstyle Bass. Press Return to implement the change.
This will help distinguish your recording from the one provided in the starting ver-
sion of the project.
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