How To Add A Fade On Garageband

GarageBand: How to fade out

The easy way to adjust audio like a pro

Right after trimming a track, fading out on a clip is one of the most common things you lot'll desire to do in GarageBand for Mac. The process sounds a fiddling tricky at get-go — it involves a feature confusingly called Automation — simply after reading our directions, it'll be a easy.

Offset, click the Evidence/Hide Automation button, which is adorned with two connected dots and resides under the rewind button at the top of the window. Doing so causes Automation buttons to announced next to the principal volume command for every track.

Next, click on a prune and a horizontal yellow line will appear across it — this line represents book. Click anywhere on it to create a dot that can be used to elevate the line up or downward, louder or quieter. Create more than dots and elevate them to shape the line as you run into fit, creating spikes and dips in audio.

To fade out, simply identify one dot at the signal you'd like to outset the fade, and a second dot where you'd like the clip to get fully silent. The amount of space you lot leave betwixt the two dots dictates how long the sound volition take to fade abroad.

And that's it! At present yous tin terminate a song with a graceful fade to silence, or manipulate the Automation line to quiet parts of the audio while pumping up others. This technique fifty-fifty helps when podcasting, to help hide annoying bits of background noise or make a mumbled word more discernible. Go crazy!