In garageband I have one audio track with many regions. I'd like to adjust the volume for each region. Is there an easy way to do that, or do I have to make a new track each time, and adjust the tracks volume?
GarageBand – How to Change Volume of a Region
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GarageBand is basically a simple version Logic, in a similar way that iPhoto is a simple version of Aperture.
What you want to do is easily done in Logic, and it also has the functionality within it that you probably wouldn't even need to export it to Audacity at all.
You can import anything created in GarageBand directly into Logic.
(if it's something you can't justify buying Logic to do, you could get someone with Logic to export the GarageBand tracks for you)
Yeah, it does result in distortion or clipping. But you can also reduce the master volume:
If individual tracks were clipped before they were mixed to the master, they will still be clipped though. GarageBand always normalizes volume when you export a song, so you can reduce the master volume as much as you want.
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Finally found the answer, not very intuitive but cool once you know.
There's a button to toggle 'automation'. Once that's on you can select from a dropdown whether you want to change volume, echo, reverb, etc. Then you click on the actual waves on the track and a coloured line will appear. Clicking along the line creates break points, and you can move either points or the line segments between points to shift the volume. It's not based on regions—you can adjust it anywhere.
For more information: https://www.howtogeek.com/238649/how-to-use-automation-in-garageband/