Tar, this is so frustrating. Hey, you. Me? Yes, you. It looks like what? It looks like you're having trouble recording in garage band. Yeah, I'm new to this whole recording thing, but I need music for my podcast, so I thought I'd give it a go myself. Pm is I'm not used to playing with a metronome, and I keep falling out of tempo. I think one of my strings is broken to. Sh, that sounds frustrating. By the way, how many takes have you recorded so far? Don't worry about it. Well, hey, what if I told you that Garage Band offers ways to easily fix the tempo and tuning of your audio recordings after they're recorded? Really? Sure. The tools are called flex time and pitch correction, which allow you to quantize both standard audio recordings and software instrument recordings. In this video, guys. Wait, hold on. What does quantizing mean? Sorry, quantizing and garage band can refer to tempo or pitch. Quantizing tempo is the process of taking off tempo notes or beats and adjusting their positions within the project timeline so that they are no longer off tempo. Quantizing pitch is a similar process. Only instead of adjusting the placement of the note within the timeline, you adjust the pitch of the note so that it is in tune. Does that make sense? Sort of. Well, here, let me walk you through the process of both so that you can get a better understanding. Okay. Here we have a garage band project with a tempo set to 120 beats per minute and the time signature set to three four. On the timeline, there is an audio recording of some notes being played on a classical guitar. I'll hit play, making sure that first Garage bands metronome is enabled. As you could probably hear, the guitar notes are pretty out of sync with the metronome. But not to worry, we'll begin to fix this by first enabling garage bands flex time feature on this audio track. To do this, we first make sure our audio track is selected. Then we click the scissor icon in the top left corner of the screen. As you can see, this opened the editor window towards the bottom of our workspace. To the left of the editor window, you can see there are two tabs, tracks, and region. First, switch to the track tab and check the enable flex box if it isn't already selected. Then switch to the region tab. Here you can see this drop down labeled T quanti. We're going to click that dropdown and select one eighth note. This is because some of the guitar notes being played are one eighth notes. Now you can see the garage band has placed a marker called the flex pointer at the start of each note and warp the actual recording so that each note now starts at the nearest eighth note position. There's also a strength slider that allows you to adjust how thoroughly a quantizing is applied. You will want the strength to remain high to achieve an ultra clean rhythmic sound. For more natural lo fi recordings, you might want to turn down the strength to retain some of the more minor imperfections. We're going to keep it high for our purposes. Overall, this is a quick and easy way to perfect the tempo of an entire track, although at times this method can be imperfect, especially if the audio recording is complex or if the notes played are not as pronounced. That's okay because Garage Band also allows you to go back and individually adjust the position of each flex pointer. For example, I'm going to go back into our recording, and I'm going to move this note slightly. Now, when I go back to the recording and hit play, You can tell that that note happens a lot sooner than when I originally played it. You can also add additional flex pointers by clicking anywhere on your recording that isn't already occupied by a flex pointer. Lastly, hovering your mouth over top, a flex pointer causes an x to appear, which you can then click to remove the flex pointer if it's not needed. Quantizing can even be done with software instrument tracks. In fact, it's a much simpler process. For example, I recorded this electric piano software instrument track, and if you listen, you can tell it is out of tempo. To fix the tempo, I simply make sure the track is selected, and on the region tab of my editor window, I set the time quantities drop down to the value of my choosing. In this case, I'm going to select quarter note. You might have noticed that my guitar take was slightly at a tune when we were adjusting its tempo. Thankfully, like with tempo, garage band allows us to adjust the pitch of recordings to be more in tune. To do this, we simply navigate back to the track tab within the editor window and move the pitch correction slider to the desired level. Like with the time quantized strength slider, this tool will adjust how thoroughly applied the pitch correction will be. For slight corrections while maintaining minor imperfections, keep the position low, and for a near auto tune sound, slight position higher. Like with tempo, results may vary depending on the complexity and quality of your recording. Okay. And lastly, the pitch of software instrument notes can be adjusted simply by clicking and dragging said notes up or down on the piano role within the editor window. Now, do you understand how to quantize in garage band using flex time and pitch correction? You know what? I think I do. Great. Do you feel like you're more confident about recording, knowing that garage band offers so many ways to fix mistakes in post production? Absolutely. I honestly can't wait to get back to recording. Thank you so much. You