From the course: GarageBand for Mac Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Use plugins

Use plugins - GarageBand Tutorial

From the course: GarageBand for Mac Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Use plugins

- [Instructor] We've seen that you can select individual tracks in your project and then come over to the library to adjust their sounds. But in GarageBand, you also have access to a large library of effects independent from the instrument or amp sounds you've selected. First to make sure all the effects are enabled and available. Go to preferences, and here under audio/MIDI, make sure enable audio units is checked. Audio units are plugins that are used by applications like GarageBand and Logic Pro and others to process audio. And all Macs include a collection of Apple audio units. Audio units are not an exclusive part of GarageBand, but instead are built into the Mac operating system. So all we're doing here is telling GarageBand that we want to be able to make use of those plugins in GarageBand. So that's pretty much all there is to enabling audio units, then select the track that you want to process. I've selected my…

Contents