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Nov 08, 2018 Keyboard shortcuts in GarageBand. This is the big one. While you’ve long been able to plug a MIDI keyboard into GarageBand, there has never been support for hooking up a regular Bluetooth keyboard, or a Smart Keyboard. Now, that’s changed, and there is a deluge of new shortcuts.
Garageband Keyboard Commands
GarageBand, which comes with iLife ’11, gives you great flexibility for recording and playing back songs, dialog, or whatever you want to record. But with great flexibility comes options, options you can execute quickly in GarageBand with the following keyboard shortcuts. After you use them a few times, your hands might start zipping around the keyboard like a DJ at the turntables on a Friday night.
Key | Function |
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Space bar | Play from the playhead or stop the currently playing song |
Right arrow | Move playhead forward in small increments |
Left arrow | Move playhead backward in small increments |
Option+Right arrow | Move playhead forward in larger increments |
Option+Left arrow | Move playhead backward in larger increments |
Home or Z | Move playhead to the beginning |
R | Start or stop recording |
C | Turn the cycle region on or off |
Command+U | Turn the metronome on or off |
Command+Shift+U | Turn the count-in on or off |
M | Mute/un-mute the selected track |
S | Solo/un-solo the selected track (that is, hear an instrument solo) |