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by **eatriceorgohome** on Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:32 am

Anyone know if there is anyway to speed up the tempo of a song imported into Garageband?
Ex. If I were to drag an acapella track of 120 BPM from iTunes into Garageband and wanted to match that with an instrumental track of 100 BPM dragged from iTunes into Garageband.

by **ChunkyEatsMyDinner** on Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:14 am

At 1st I thought this was going to be a read the manual question but I have just opened Garageband and I cant see any obvious way of doing it and Im a Logic user!

Have I got up to early this morning?
Surely Garageband has a timestretch function somewhere?!
Try going to the help tab and check out the tutorials or search if this question has been asked here before.

by **eatriceorgohome** on Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:45 am

Is it worth it to upgrade to Logic? Seems like a dumb question, but figured I'd ask anyway.

by **ChunkyEatsMyDinner** on Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:05 am

Each to their own really, I personally say a definite yes, now studio 8 is released at half the price of Logic 7 you cant go far wrong.
Have a look if there are any Apple stores near you and ask if they have any Logic workshops on soon.
The Apple stores in the UK have workshops on for many of their products from time to time, its a good way to actually see the stuff being used and learn what you get.

by **styx021** on Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:33 pm

ya ive been using garageband for quite some time and have recently gotten logic

there is no real way to change the tempo to match unfortunately, you could use something like audacity and then import the mp3 once you're changed the tempo

by **InternetRebel** on Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:11 am

There is no real time-stretching in GarageBand, but you CAN fix a track to the BPM you select. Unfortunately this requires some preparation outside Garageband, but it works pretty fine in the end.

What you need is the Apple Loop Utility and just turn the entire track into one giant loop. You need to know/calculate/find the EXACT BPM of the track, import it into the Apple Loop Utility and set the tempo. Then save as AIFF.

If you import that AIFF into GarageBand, it will stretch along with any tempo you set in GarageBand.

Sorry if my description is a little fuzzy, but I can't give you exact examples or menu-structures since I switched to Logic several months ago and GarageBand ain't on my system any more.

by **R4mPaGe** on Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:56 pm

garageband doesnt have time stretching you should try ableton

by **syrus1** on Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:11 pm

Just instal cubase or protools, edit+save. then open again in garage band

by **gmoore03** on Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:52 pm

there IS a way to do it, for future reference (if anybody is still reading this!). If you hit control+option+G while highlighting a track that you've imported you'll change the color of it from orange to purple, essentially changing it from an audio file to a recorded instrument track. From there on the edit panel you can select follow tempo & pitch and you can match it up to whatever you want. Imported audio tracks won't follow tempo but recorded ones will.

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