23.4. Cycling (Looping)Looping means playing a certain section of the music over and over again continuously. (That's what musicians call it. Apple calls it cycling , because in GarageBand, the word loop has a very different meaning. You can read about loops in the next chapter.) Cycling can be very handy in a number of different situations:
To loop a certain section of your piece, start by clicking the Cycle button (identified in Figure 23-3). Or just press the letter C key on your Mac's keyboard.
Either way, the Cycle button lights up, and a yellow stripe appears on the beat ruler (the numbered "ruler" strip at the top of the screen). That stripethe cycle region tells you which part of the song GarageBand intends to repeat. In a new song, the yellow stripe appears across measures 1 through 4. You can adjust its length and position, though, as shown in Figure 23-3. If you tap the Space bar now, GarageBand plays only the music enclosed by that yellow stripe. To end the cycling, click the Cycle button again to turn it off, or tap the letter C key again. (You can do that even while the music is playing.) |