PLAYING GARAGEBAND'S SOFTWARE INSTRUMENTS

Perhaps the coolest thing about GarageBand is that for your $49, you get over 50 great-sounding instruments with it. You get practically an entire orchestra inside your Mac. Previously, when you bought a MIDI sequencer you either had to buy add-on Virtual Instrument packages costing hundreds of dollars or have MIDI hardware sound modules hooked into your Mac. No more, thanks to GarageBand.

Let's find out just what Software Instruments are. Also, how you can use either GarageBand's onscreen Musical Keyboard or a MIDI keyboard to play music with Software Instruments.

WHAT ARE SOFTWARE INSTRUMENTS?

In GarageBand there are two kinds of instruments.

  • Prerecorded sound files (such as Apple Loops and imported ...

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