Now that I’ve finished recording the basic guitar part for “The Barnyard Dance,” it’s time to add more instrumentation—and what better place to start than with the bass part? To keep it simple, I’ll ...

With the new, much more guitar-like Rock Band 3 controllers on the market, it's actually possible to configure them to create MIDI music in GarageBand on a Mac. Mac magazine Mac|Life shows us how. The ...

Once you’ve laid down a solid rhythmic foundation with your drums and your bass, it’s time to sweeten things up with some different sounds, like guitar or keyboards. GarageBand for iPad makes this ...

MIDI Guitar for GarageBand is a Mac app (remember those?) that turns your guitar into a MIDI controller for, well, for any instrument you like. Thus you can thrash away on your axe like the heavy ...

Guitar maker Fender has partnered with Apple to create a new USB-equipped guitar in the form of the Squier Stratocaster, which has been designed to be used with Apple’s Garageband iOS software. The ...

Optek Music Systems has released a plug-in for GarageBand users, which allows Mac users to interact with the company’s Fretlight Guitar. The guitar features lights embedded in the fretboard that light ...

So I wasn't all that interested in GarageBand at first - cool app, but I probably wouldn't use it.<BR>Except then I got around to checking out the MWSF footage, and was blown away by the amp ...

These rubberized accessories promise to amp up the fun you can have playing music on your iPad -- but they're still no substitute for the real thing. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...