
I've successfully been able to slow this down, just this section of it here. Now when I set the playhead here you can hear it slow down. So I'm just going to go and do the middle thing right there. Or I can have it drop off quickly and then the rate of slowing down will change. So slow it down a little bit at first and then suddenly it drops off quickly. So obviously this will slow it down at an even pace and this will do it at a curved pace. I can click that and now I can put a curve.

Then this will jump and change so that it adjusts there. Notice the number there next to Change Tempo, 60, 50, 40. I've got this point, that point, and this middle point that was created. Actually there is three points now when I created that other one. Then I'm going to, you can see this is a line here I can drag. I don't want an abrupt change in speed so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back up here to 120 and I'm going to put another point right here at the end. Now I can adjust this line here so I can have a sudden abrupt change in speed right at this point. But I can click right there and I create a dot. I'm not sure what that icon is supposed to be. You can see it when I hold the Command key down I get this little pen or knife here. So I'll go back to 120 beats per minute and I'm going to use the Command key on my keyboard and click on the line right here. But we don't want to slow down the entire thing. I could just drag this line down here and it would slow things down and you can hear it slower. Now that we have Follow Tempo & Pitch turned on we can slow down this track for real. The bottom line is you need to get this checked either by checking it or by turning this on and off here. I don't know why you need to do that sometimes and not others but you can see that everything is the same. Sometimes I find that you have to do something like turn on Flex and then off Flex and then it will check it off. It's got to be selected else you won't be able to check off Follow Tempo & Pitch which is what we want.Įven with this selected, sometimes, this won't check off. See I can have it not selected and then selected.

Then you can drag this line here up to make sure you see everything here at the bottom.Īnother thing you want to make sure, is make sure you have this selected up here. If you can't see the Follow Tempo & Pitch down here at the bottom first make sure you are set to Region not Track. So we will see no change if we adjust tempo, at least not yet. It will just affect other things we bring in like other loops and things like that. I'm still playing at the same speed but you've just told me that speed is 90 beats per minute. Well, if we were to change it to 90 it would say great. So we've told it, ah it's a 120 beats per minute. At least not right now because what it will actually do is it will tell Garageband that the tempo of this is something different.

But that's not what the tempo track does. We can drag this line down and slow things down. Now you would think this is exactly what we want, the tempo track. Now I'm going to go to Track and Show Tempo Track. So now I just have the recorded guitar track there. I'm going to select it and then use Command Delete to get rid of it. So in order to do that I need to enable some things. But what I want to do is here at the end, right about here, I want it to slow down to the end there. If I play it you can hear the loop.Īlright, so that just loops over and over again. I'm going to position it all the way to the left and now I've got this guitar bit right here. Let's create the empty project here and then I'm going to drag and drop this file in. It loops at the same speed and I want it to slow down at the end. This audio file is just a looping guitar piece. But I want to point out that I've got this audio file right here. So I'm going to go into Garageband and create an empty project. Like if you want a song to slow down at the end, or at least a track from the song. How do you slow down some audio using Garageband? But not just slow down the audio in its entirety but only a section of it. So here's something I get asked every once in awhile. On today's episode let me show you how you can slow down a portion of a track in Garageband. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Slow Down a Portion of a Track In Garageband at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
