How do you gently move tracks in garageband? Ive spent hours upon hours trying to simply move complete tracks to the right or left with precision but it jumps or wants to introduce flex timing?

I had the same problem, but could not find the menus and fixes that were suggested. I finally figured out that if you zoom your tracks in so you are looking at a much smaller part of the track in your window, then sliding with your mouse is much more precise and you can easily line up tracks with each other. The zoom function is option-control-left arrow and option-control-right arrow. Once you zoom your tracks, use the Editor (command-E) to see your waveforms and clicks real easy.

Are you using GarageBand '11?

Then turn off "Quantize Note Timing" in the Track Editor and set it to "None"; also disable "Follow Tempo and Pitch" for all tracks (below the Pitch slider in the Track editor for the selected track).

Regards

Léonie

More importantly: turn off the "snap to grid" and the "show guide lines" functions (cmd-g, cmd-shift-g) in the Control menu. And in the Editor window, only move the regions by placing the cursor on the upper edge (it will turn into a <|> shape.) Otherwise you will move little snippets of the audio, and the whole flex time thing will start up which you don't want.

Hello keazerdog !

You've definitely got the most helpful solution:

"if you zoom your tracks in so you are looking at a much smaller part of the track in your window, then sliding with your mouse is much more precise"

Thank you - this helped me too!

🙂

Yes, zooming helps A LOT. Just drag the slider. Gracias.