Deleting Stuff on GarageBand for iPhone

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Deleting Stuff onGarageBand for iOSHow to delete songs, tracks, regions, and measures



Deleting on the iPhone, iPod & iPad

All screen captures in this presentation

are from GarageBand 1.2 on an iPhone

4S.

The actions are the same on iPad, but

the placement and labeling of some

buttons may be different. The iPod

Touch should be identical.


Deleting SongsGo to the My Songs screen.

To delete a song, you need to be on the main/home screen (as shown here).

If the app opens up in a different mode, such as the tracks view or instrument playing/recording view, click the top-left triangle (iPhone) or My Songs (iPad).

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Press and hold down the track you wish to delete for a couple of seconds.

This will select the song and activate the Song Edit functions.

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With the song now selected, press the trash can icon to delete the song. The song should disappear.

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Next Up:

Deleting Tracks

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Deleting Songs


To delete an entire track of a song, you

must be on the Tracks screen. Deleting a

track completely removes the track and

its data.

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In Tracks view, tap the head of the track you want to delete. The track will darken, showing that it’s selected.


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Tap once more on the head of the track, popping up the Track Edit menu.


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Tap Delete. Your track will be history.Next Up:

Deleting Regions

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A region (or sometimes called “segment” or “clip”) is part of a track.

You can make a region by just recording for a few seconds into a fresh

track. If you recorded a few seconds more from there, you’d make a

second region.

Also, if you divide a song into sections, and are working in just one

section, the green bar would represent only a part of the song, and

you’d be viewing a region. You might want to delete a region if you’re

doing multiple takes over a part of a song. Or you could clear out the

drums just in the last verse to create a gentler dynamic.

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Two taps on a region brings up the Region Edit menu.

The first tap changes the region’s look, giving it a border plus left-and-right grabbing handles.


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The second tap brings up the Region Edit menu.


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Tap Delete. Poof! The region will disappear.Next Up:

Deleting Partial

Regions

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Sometimes you might need to perform minor surgery on just part of a

region—a couple of measures or even just a beat or two. On a recent

project, I removed the first few measures of a region in the introduction

of a song, delaying the second guitar’s entrance until measure five.

(You can edit individual notes for most (but not all) of the GB4IOS

instruments, but definitely not recorded audio.)

Deleting Beats, Measures, or Part of a Region

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Position the playhead to the beginning of the area to be deleted.



Double-tap the region to evoke the Region Edit menu.



Tap the Split option. This will draw a line at the division point with a scissors tool.



Drag down the Scissors tool to make your first cut.



This splits the region into two regions.



Now reposition the Playhead to the end of the area you wish to delete.

Then repeat the same process as you performed for the first cut. (Double-tap for the menu, choose Split, and then drag down the Scissors tool.



(Almost done) You should now have three regions. Double-tap the region that is the area you want to delete, bringing up the Region Edit menu. Tap Delete.



You have successfully removed the partial region. Congratulations!

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Deleting Stuff on GarageBand for iPhone