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10.11. "Bounce Down" Many Tracks into OneAnd now, one of the most useful and powerful tools in the GarageBand musician's arsenal. It involves exporting several tracks, or even all of your tracks, and boiling them all down into one. Suppose, for example, that your Mac can play only five tracks at once before bogging down. However, you've got 20 tracks' worth of music in your head! Using the "bounce down" trick, that's no problem. You could simply proceed as shown in Figure 10-5. Here's the step-by-step version:
The one big caution here is that each time you export your tracks, you're freezing them. You're giving up any ability to adjust their effects, rebalance their volume levels, change the song's tempo, and so on. Take care to finalize each semi-mix as much as possible before exporting. Tip: You might also want to use the File Save As command along the way, preserving each set of exported tracks before you delete them, so you can return to the original GarageBand files if necessary. (Like when you finally get that dual-processor Power Mac G5 with 1 gig of RAM.) | ||
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