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Split a drum track into multiple tracks

Split a drum track into multiple tracks - GarageBand Tutorial

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Split a drum track into multiple tracks

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- [Instructor] All right, so here I have this drum track I played on my MIDI Keyboard into a single region onto a single softer instrument track. Now, one of the frustrations some people have when recording softer instrument drums is that all of the individual drum parts, the kick, the snare, and the hi-hat in this case all end up together in this one region. Now you do have control over the levels of individual instruments by opening up the smart controls for the drums. And here you can see we have dials to adjust the levels of the kick, snare, tom, hi-hat, cymbals, and percussion instruments. So this will let you mix the parts in a single region. However, sometimes you want more control in this. For example, you might want to use one drum kit's snare sound, and another drum kit's kick sound, or you might want to apply different effects to just single drums instead of the whole kit. So what we can do is split our…

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