I created a new piano project in Garageband. When I click the on-screen keyboard, it plays notes. On a normal piano, one of the pedals causes notes to continue playing even after they are released (I believe they eventually begin to slowly fade away). How can I get this same effect in Garageband?
How to use piano pedals in Garageband
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Assuming you’re using GarageBand ’09 (I think it’s the same in iLife ’11), you can still follow those very same instructions.
AUNetSend is an audio unit that uses Bonjour to send a stream of data in the format that you specify.
You can then modify the properties of the “send”:
The “listening” side should be using AUNetReceive…
I haven’t really tried this since the age of dawn, but assuming both Macs are in the same network, it would be more or less straightforward.
Incidentally, this bug stopped happening in Garage Band 10.0.2; I can no longer reproduce it.
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Best Answer
The ⇥ Tab key functions as the sustain pedal in the on-screen keyboard, if you switch to the Musical Typing mode:
If you must use the Keyboard mode, you can insert pedaling after the fact in the Score editor: