Tracks / Instruments

Hi !
My english aint good but will do my best to explain my question.
In Garageband i start up with my digital piano connected to my Imac, of course select the piano ( Picture of a piano ) then it start up and make a track i can record on, then you got several possiblities to select a instrument you want your digital piano to sound like, the question is, is it possible to make dual sound ( 2 sounds in 1 track eg. Grand piano and Trumpet´s ) ?
If it is possible how to do it, i used hours reading truhe Garageband help and not found anything about it.
If not possible i will point out the importants of this cause eg. The song " Titanic My hearth will go  on " and loads of other songs as well sounds best with dual sound, Titanic my hearth will go on for example sounds wonderfull with Eg. Piano and Violin ( in 1 track ) or Piano Chor ( in 1 track ) etc.

Digitalpianoman wrote:
 is it possible to make dual sound ( 2 sounds in 1 track eg. Grand piano and Trumpet´s ) ?
no, not as you describe it.
what you can do is create another "software" track as which ever instrument you want, then option-drag the recorded region (to duplicate it) into the new track

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