Using Gio's Stompbox Buttons To Control Garageband; Setting Gio's Audio Parameters From Garageband - Apogee GiO User Manual

Using GiO's Stompbox buttons to control GarageBand effects
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.
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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 Amplifier to set GiO's output
to a fixed level, to avoid inadvertently changing GiO's output
level.
• Mute and unmute GiO's output with the On and Off buttons
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