Optimizing Garage Band

Apple’s Garage Band is surprisingly powerful, but easy to work with, even for beginners. But in some cases it can bog down, particularly when working with high-end sample libraries like Vienna Instruments and East West/Quantum Leap. One thing you can do to put less of a strain on the application is by locking the tracks. This renders the samples used in your tracks to the hard drive. Essentially, Garage Band now sees an audio file rather than a bunch of CPU-gobbling samples. This is pretty much like the Freeze function in Apple’s Logic Pro. Note that you can still make volume and pan adjustments even if a track is locked.