![]() ![]() Here are some instructions for a few different scenarios. If you have the audio file in one of the other commonly-used cloud service like Google Drive or Dropbox or the audio file is in your email inbox, you can still transfer it to GarageBand – you’ll simply need to get it from that location to iCloud Drive (and then import it into GarageBand from there). Any audio files that have been placed into iCloud Drive can be imported into GarageBand (I have few tips below). If you want to do this on the iPad only, you will need to use Apple’s iCloud Drive service as the “go-between”. Or perhaps you want students to use GarageBand to record their voices over the top of a drum part they created elsewhere. Let’s say you or your students have created an audio file in another app or software program – maybe on a laptop even – and now you want to import that audio file into GarageBand because you’d like to use the Smart Drums to add a backing. You can use GarageBand for iOS to do the same thing.Importing audio files in GarageBand: why do that? (This isn’t the only path for creating ringtones. We’ll use those skills in our next lesson when you create a musical work based entirely on GarageBand’s bundled loops. You’ve additionally learned something about creating and editing tracks. You, the person who claims to lack any skill for making music, have found a practical use for GarageBand. Of course you needn’t use it only for ringtones: On the iPhone you can choose it as an alert sound as well.Īnd that’s it. Tap it, and it will be the sound your phone plays when a call comes in. You’ll find it at the top of the list of ringtones. To use your creation as a ringtone, on the iPhone tap Settings > Sounds > Ringtone. The ringtone will be copied to your phone. Drag your ringtone to the iPhone’s Tones entry and then click the Sync button that appears at the bottom of the iTunes window. If your iPhone isn’t configured to sync wirelessly, connect it to your Mac using the sync cable. Sending your completed ringtone to iTunes. ![]() Complete the job by dragging the right edge of the cycle bar so that it aligns with the end of your track. Delete the material to the right of the split, and drag the remaining track to the 0:00 mark. Move the playhead where you’d like the ringtone to end, click the track, and once again split the track. Click the portion that you don’t want to keep (the stuff to the left of the split) and press Delete. ![]() Then drag the right edge of the track to the left so that it ends somewhere before the 0:40 mark.Īlternatively, you can move the playhead to the point where you want the ringtone to begin, click the track in the workflow pane, and choose Edit > Split Regions at Playhead (or press Command-T). Now click somewhere in the middle of the track and drag it to the left so that it starts at 0:00. A readout will show you the edge’s time position as well as the overall length of the track. Then click the track’s bottom-left corner and drag it to the right, to that point. Play the track to the point where you want the ringtone to start-when the vocalist comes in, for instance. The first method is to trim the beginning or the end of the track by dragging its bottom edge toward the center of the track (a Trim icon will appear as you hover your cursor over the track’s bottom corner). And it’s not difficult to do, though you have a couple of ways to approach the task. The best ringtones are those that are edited within an inch of their digital lives. And even if it does, when it loops on your phone (because these ringtones keep “ringing” until you answer or the call goes to voicemail) it may do so at a musically awkward place. The resulting ringtone, however, may not contain the part of the song that you really want to hear. You can simply split the track and delete everything after the first 40 seconds. If all you want to do is use the first 40 seconds of the track as a ringtone, you’re close to being done. (If you additionally hear a ticking sound, click the purple Metronome button to turn it off.) Editing the track The resulting track is brown with a white waveform.Ĭlick Play in the control bar, and you’ll hear the track. When you’ve found the correct track, drag it from the list to the workspace, to the right of Audio 1. To preview a track, just select it and then click the Play button that appears to the left of the Search field (or double-click the track). You can also narrow the list by using the Search field at the bottom of the pane, where you can search by All, Artist, Album, Composer, or Song. You can sort the resulting list by track name, artist, or time by clicking the appropriate column heading. GarageBand lets you use tracks in your iTunes library as ringtones. ![]()
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