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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's a fun tip from Mac | Life that describes how to use the Rock Band drum controller with GarageBand. The pricier rig requires a paid version of JunXion ($95 ...

Drummer is one of GarageBand’s best features. It’s a virtual drummer that comes up with entire drum parts for your song. Or rather, it’s 15 drummers, each of whom has a different style, from hard rock ...

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 ...

Apple has deployed an update for the iOS version of GarageBand, with the new version taking advantage of the Super Retina display on the iPhone X, as well as adding a new sound library and a "classic" ...

Apple's GarageBand app for iPad makes music creation so simple that a band produced an entire album with it in just two weeks. The Ultramods, an independent punk duo, recently released its album ...

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 ...

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 ...