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In our series on native applications AppWe continue our analysis of GarageBand for MacIn today's episode, we will discuss the procedures for arranging songs created in this application.

Within arrangements, you can position items in your GarageBand project according to a ruler—the ruler, for example, was discussed in the chapter on tracks or regions, and is a bar with numbers that runs horizontally along the top of the track area. The ruler can be found in GarageBand on Macu can be used to align items in the Tracks area more precisely. When you align items in the Tracks area, you will see yellow alignment guides. You can use the alignment guides in GarageBand to Macu can be activated or deactivated, when you activate them you also activate the alignment function. To activate or deactivate the alignment guides, click on the toolbar at the top of your screen. Macu to Edit -> Alignment Guides. You can also align individual items in GarageBand to a grid. To activate the grid in the track area, click the toolbar at the top of your screen. Macu to Edit -> Snap to Grid.

The toolbar at the top of the application window contains tools for further editing the properties of your project. To adjust the tempo, click on the LCD image with bar, time and tempo information. Click on the tempo data and adjust by dragging the cursor up or down. You can adjust the tempo and time on the LCD in the same way. If you prefer to enter the values ​​on the keyboard, double-click the selected item and then enter the required data. To set the tone, click on the corresponding data on the LCD and then select the desired tone in the menu.

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