Apogee gio [13/29] Setting gio s audio parameters from garageband

GiO by APOGEE – User’s Guide

Using GiO’s Stompbox buttons to control GarageBand eects

With GiO’s Stompbox buttons, you can turn GarageBand’s Stompbox

effects on and off with you feet.

• Add an Electric Guitar track in your GarageBand song by

choosing Track > New Track, selecting Electric Guitar in the

New Track dialog, and clicking Create.

• Select a guitar preset using GiO’s Previous and Next buttons.

• Once the preset is loaded, each of GiO’s Stompbox indicators

light to a color that corresponds to a GarageBand stompbox

effect. Press the stompbox button to toggle the effect on and off;

the corresponding stompbox indicator lights brightly when the

effect is on, dimly when the effect is off.

• To display stompbox effects of another Electric Guitar track,

highlight that track’s header in the timeline. If an Instrument or

Real track header is highlighted, GiO’s stompbox indicators turn

off.

Setting GiO’s audio parameters from GarageBand

• Double-click a Real Instrument or Electric Guitar track header

to open the Track Info pane.

• In the Track Info pane, click the faders button to the right of the

Input Source menu. On an Electric Guitar track, highlight the

guitar amp and click Edit to reveal the faders button.

• Set GiO’s input gain using the Recording Level slider

• Click Connected to: Line (e.g. Home Stereo) when GiO is

connected to headphones, powered speakers, a mixing

console or a home stereo.

• Click Connected to: Instrument Amplier to set GiO’s output

to a xed level, to avoid inadvertently changing GiO’s output

level.

• Mute and unmute GiO’s output with the On and Off buttons