It was kind of cool to hear this old recording again. Note that VoiceOver doesn't provide an audible confirmation that the paste succeeded. Pasting the WAV files in GarageBand creates four new tracks in the project, one for each WAV file. With VoiceOver enabled, VoiceOver focus must be in the Tracks group. To import these files in GarageBand, copy them from Finder (Command+C) and paste them in GarageBand (Command+V). The download contains four WAV files, one for each audio track in my original recording. To follow along, you'll need to download a ZIP of my four audio tracks. Compressed formats such as MP3 can be lossy and compromise the recording quality.

I used WAV to transfer the recording from Audacity because WAV is uncompressed.

Hit the K key to disable GarageBand's metronome, which will be slightly off the beat. The audio for this project wasn't recorded with a click track. And if you download my audio tracks and follow along, the tempo also helps you find specific locations by bar and beat. Some GarageBand effects require the tempo to sound correct. Interact with it, then use VO+Shift+Left and Right Arrows to set the value to 68. After you create a new project, find the Tempo slider control using the Item Chooser (VO+I). It's just as easy to take the defaults and set these values in your new empty project. You can set the tempo, key signature, and time signature in the Details group of the New Project dialog. Start by creating a new GarageBand project. In this blog, I'll use song to refer to a song, and track to refer to one track in a multi-track recording. Note: The term track has two meanings in the recording industry. The information in this blog is accurate for GarageBand v10.3.4 running on MacOS Catalina 10.15.3. Why not remaster them with GarageBand instead? I intended to eventually remaster those old recordings. Many years ago, I recorded some songs on an analog four-track cassette recorder, and later made an Audacity project file from the master tapes. In this blog, I'll try something a little more elaborate. That blog also contains a keyboard shortcut reference and growing list of accessibility issues. In GarageBand Part 1: The Basics, I covered creating a project, recording simple audio, GarageBand's playback controls, and exporting your recording. In this series, I hope to fully explore nearly all of GarageBand's many features. With no accessible 64-bit Audacity build available, GarageBand has become my new digital recording solution on MacOS.

Related podcast: The MacOS Audio MIDI Setup app.

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