I simply want to record myself reading a story and share it.  How can I do this?  How long can it be?  I find the interface not intuitive for this.

I simply want to record myself reading a story and share it with others.  How can I do this simply?  I find the Garageband interface is not intuitive about this at all.  Or would the voice memo recording work better?  Thanks.

Thoughtful
You just need to adjust two default settings:
Turn off the metronome and count-in in song settings.
Set the Song setting section length to auto.
You can now record a section without it being prematurely stopped.
GarageBand has can record a maximum 320 measures (bars). At the slowest metronome setting of 40bpm and with a time signature setting of 4/4 (the maximum beats per measure) this gives a theoretical maximum of 32 minutes recording time.
Hope this helps
DM

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