The Mac|Life weblog demonstrates how to hook up your Rock Band drum set to your Mac for a low-latency electronic drum kit. If you do a lot of music-making on your Mac with GarageBand, one of the two ...

Apple has created a collection of individual characters, or ‘virtual session player’, that each bring their own flavour to the party. To start with you only have one rock drummer, Kyle, but for a ...

Apple’s Music Memos app is just about about the best way to record musical ideas before they evaporate into the ether. For years, musicians used the built-in Voice Memos app to record snippets, but ...

With GarageBand for the Mac, Apple created something no one else had – a relatively inexpensive, very powerful music recording studio right on the computer. Several iterations later, GarageBand came ...

Reader Bill Pendry has discovered that you can easily get your PlayStation 3 Rock Band’s drums to work perfectly with GarageBand, the music composition software that comes with every Mac. The “hack” ...

The last time I drummed, I was still in elementary school. But even without a lot of skill or talent, playing drums in GarageBand is a delight—mostly thanks to its virtual tap-based drum sets and ...

If you don’t have a keyboard, you can also use the virtual keyboard in the GarageBand by using Command+k. 3. Recording Vocals or Voiceover When adding a vocal track, make sure you have a microphone ...

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Apple has updated its mobile version of GarageBand, offering a number of new features, including 3D Touch support and Beat Machine-style loops. Arguably the biggest new feature in the app is that it ...

Aspiring musicians with a gentle touch should check out this project from the Australian group behind the Wallee mount for the iPad. The designers are developing rubberized accessories, branded Pix & ...