Zoom/Change the "height" of each track?

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Zoom/Change the "height" of each track?

Hi - New to Mac & iLife - In most other audio editing programs I've worked with, you can adjust the "height" of the tracks, to zoom into them and get a better look at the wave. I can't seem to find a way to enlarge the track size view in Garageband - am I missing something obvious, or are you really just stuck with one tiny track size?

When I'm only working with 2 or 3 tracks on a 19" monitor, it seems a shame to always be squinting at those tiny bands at the top of the window without being able to zoom in and make more use of the garageband screen.

Posted on Oct 9, 2005 12:21 AM

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Answer 1

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Brian Battles

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Oct 9, 2005 4:30 AM in response to mchlspllrs

You can zoom the tracks by moving the slider at the bottom left of the tracks section or using Control-right arrow. However, to see the waveform you need to open the track editor at the bottom of the application window. You do this by clicking other button that has the scissors icon. The section that opens can be zoomed in the same fashion.

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Answer 2

Oct 10, 2005 8:32 AM in response to Brian Battles

That doesn't affect the HEIGHT, though, just the width.

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Answer 3

Oct 9, 2005 4:05 AM in response to mchlspllrs

When you double-click on the regions, you get a really big view in the editor window.

By the way: I often would like to lower the height of the tracks so I could see more of them on my little Powerbook screen, like in other programs. But then the controls would be inaccassable, maybe that's why GB doesn't have this feature.

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HangTime

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Oct 10, 2005 8:38 AM in response to Scott Laughlin-Richard

That doesn't affect the HEIGHT

The scale slider doesn't, but if you open the editer window (Scissor icon) you can stretch that window to extend the height.

There is, as Scott said, no way to change the height of the tracks in the timeline B-(>

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Answer 5

Schneb

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Oct 10, 2005 10:59 AM in response to mchlspllrs

You can do this in Soundtrack Pro if you really want this option.

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Answer 6

Oct 10, 2005 4:05 PM in response to Schneb

As well as Logic Express 🙂

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