# using voiceover with garage band help

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Sunday, 11-May-2008 1:44:45

Hello all, I need help with using voice over with garage band. Basically what I am trying to do is record through my mixer which already works fine, but i need to be able to add effects and such, but i can't quite make sense out of the layout of the garage band interface. I'm kind of VO arrowing randomly around. Can someone please point me towards a good tutorial or help me one on one with this issue?

## Post 2 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Sunday, 11-May-2008 10:23:34

R your buttons labeled? I tried it out once, bt mine weren't so i gave it up.

## Post 3 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Sunday, 11-May-2008 17:28:20

The buttons are labeled just fine I just don't know what is what and where to go to do certain things. I have messed with it in Tiger, however Those buttons weren't labeled, but I actually got al the sounds to work, Also, I could have been in a different recording mode.

## Post 4 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Saturday, 17-May-2008 9:08:22

go to www.icanworkthisthing.com and you will find a variety of guides including one that hopefully will assist you in your quest.

## Post 5 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Saturday, 17-May-2008 12:25:19

Awesome, thanks.

## Post 6 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Saturday, 17-May-2008 18:32:19

thanks willie, however will this help me with voice over and the navigation functions. I was messing around with it but I astill not solid on what I would like to get done. I need to be able to make a track and then record another track over that one while hearing the first one as I record over it. Thanks. BTW, do you ahve skype I would really like to talk to you on skype. I am having soe issues that I think you could help me sort out.

## Post 7 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Saturday, 17-May-2008 20:36:51

I am not sure exactly what is in the guide but hopefully what you are looking for is there. I have not used garage band personally although did have a look and was pleased to see what did work. I do have Skyp and if you would like to work out a time for contact we can do that. Monday or wednesday evening at about 8:30 PM eastern standard would work for me. Let me know. My info is in my profile. Thanks.

## Post 8 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Sunday, 18-May-2008 12:46:58

Helo Willie, I might be able to tcall you some time considering I am only in Pennsylvania a short distance from you I have figured out some, however I haven't figured out hwo to export, or how to make selections or how to interact with the scroll area where the actual recording is shwon. Thanks i will be contacting you soon hopefuly

## Post 9 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Sunday, 18-May-2008 19:56:08

Sounds good. You should be able to interact with anything by pressing control-option-shift-downarrow

## Post 10 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Sunday, 18-May-2008 20:48:53

no some things don't let you for whatever reason. Also willie, have you heard of voiceover crashing and automatically relaunching. I'm having an issue where in open office crashes voiceover then relaunches it again. I had this same issue once in apple mail when arrowing through a list of emails in my inbox. When I came to a subjet voiceover kept crashing and relaunching. Do you know if there is something taht is like the sapi virus thing that will crash voiceover or a word like anti [c a e s u]re? I'm having an issue when I make tracks in garage band it coes out ok but then like a few minutes after that file plays each part plays. I can't figure out how to edit that crap out.

## Post 11 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Sunday, 18-May-2008 21:07:21

Cody, I'm having the same problem, but with me its with adium. I was doing anything, but the mac was just sitting their, because I had a walkthrough for a game I was playing open in text edit, and then I heard "voice over on". It did it about 3 more times.

## Post 12 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Monday, 19-May-2008 20:13:48

spike seems to do it in adium however adium s fine for me. I've only had it done once in mail, and always in open office. to where ooo is not useable.

## Post 13 by ¤§¤spike¤§¤ (This site is so "educational") on Monday, 19-May-2008 20:48:10

I'll elaborate for post 12.
In my version of Adium, voice over doesn't crash if I'm in the middle of a conversation, or a conversation.
It does however crash and restart if I command+slash to go to or am in the contact list.

## Post 14 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Tuesday, 20-May-2008 16:47:37

I have just tried command with slash and it does not crash my version of voiceover or adium. Just as responsive as always. There have been no new updates as of 05/20/2008.

## Post 15 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Thursday, 22-May-2008 8:56:48

Wow, very interesting. I have seen voiceover reset itself and really don't know what is causing this. I have heard of some words causing a crash but not many at all. I know that crash logs are generated but unfortunately, don't know where they are placed. Geeks! find them please!!! I haven't seen any openoffice updates yet either but hopefully they are working on things. It's may and they are targeting september so there is some time.

## Post 16 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Friday, 23-May-2008 11:58:39

Can you specify if you remember what some of those words are, so taht we can verify they indeed do crash voiceover