Garage Band Tempo

[nathanprovan]

Dear Sir/Madam

I'm using Garage Band 09, I need to know how you change the tempo of individual tracks in a songwriting project, not a whole song. I have recorded an acoustic instrument, and vocals but when I try and put a apple prerecorded drum track behind the song it doesn't fit; So I need to change the tempo of the drum beat to match the song, I have tried all the different preloaded tracks but none of them fit, I need to speed up the tempo of the individual track, not the whole song.

Nathan Provan

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

It doesn't seem like you can change the tempo without also changing the pitch, but that may not matter to you... I dunno!

Give this a read, and see if something there helps:

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Specifically, try:

You can slow a song down using GarageBand! You don't have to resort to Audacity or whatever.

It's a weird, but very simple procedure:

1. Drag your audio file (MP3, M4A, ...) in GarageBand. It's shown as an orange track.
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+G
3. Click the audio track. It is now blue.
4. Check "Follow Tempo & Pitch" (this is in the wave editor section, which you get by clicking the scissors symbol next to the eye)
5. Now change the tempo (next to the song time display)

...maybe it will also work for an Apple loop, too.