Why isn garageband recording

If you have the latest MacBook Pro, the headphone jack is on the right-hand side near the screen. Having a good pair of headphones for mixing and mastering is important for a number of reasons, which I explained in my review of the Audio Technica ATX-M50x. I hope this article was helpful to you. If it was, do me a solid favor and share it with your friends on social media. GarageBand will dutifully re-create its loop index, based on the current location and contents of that Loops folder.

Select the sound source you want to record, and then adjust the Input Volume slider for your singing or playing. The loudest notes should briefly illuminate the rightmost bars. Click on the Audio Input pop-up menu and make sure that the correct input is selected.

If a green Software Instrument track is selected, GarageBand ignores your microphone or instrument. Step 3 GarageBand may be set up to listen to the wrong channel. If so, your MIDI status light can help you identify the culprit. Contact the manufacturer for support. If the project opens and plays back properly, you might need to update or service your audio interface. If you're using Audio Units plug-ins, try disabling them. Damaged or incompatible Audio Units plug-ins can create unexpected behavior in GarageBand.

If the project opens and plays back properly, a plug-in you're using in the project might be damaged or incompatible with your version of GarageBand. Check with the manufacturer of the plug-in for support. You can create a new project and test to check if the issue is with your project or with the GarageBand app.

Create another user account on your Mac , then try to recreate the issue in the new user account. If the issue doesn't occur in the new user account, settings in the original account might be causing the issue. Resetting preferences doesn't affect your project files, presets, or patches.

However, you do lose any custom preference settings you might have made. If so let us know. Nov 29, PM. Page content loaded.

Have you selected a real instrument track for recording? If a software instrument track is selected, the cursor will move, but nothing else will happen, when you try to record. You have to be more specific about what " it " is. Are you clear on the basic concept of GarageBand and how to choose an input signal the "it" to record? Unfortunaelty, creating a track and click the record button is not whole story. There are a few more steps and concepts you have to understand first. Make sure you have that covered and let us know at what part you are stuck.

Thanks for the reply, Leonie! Yes, I selected "real instrument track" and that's what was happening--the cursor was moving but nothing was recording and there was not the usual purple-colored track appearing.

I work as a voice-over artist and I've been recording voice-overs in GarageBand for over a year now, and have never had this problem before. I checked everything I could think of, including quitting the program and opening it again. Also tried just starting over with another "new project" but every time I hit "record" I got the same result. The funny thing is that after posting my question, I went back and hit "record" one more time and it suddenly worked!

There's absolutely nothing that I had been doing differently. It's as if it just woke up and recognized the command all of a sudden. I'm wondering if this is something that others have run into after working in the program for awhile.

Or if there's either a glitch I don't know about or some trick to jogging it that I don't know about. What if it happens again? Also, I'm wondering if perhaps I should delete old projects. Could that be bogging it down somehow? Good suggestions, Edgar. Thank you!