
To begin, we’ll concentrate on a real keyboard that you connect to your Mac.Ĭonnected musical keyboards use something called MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) to transmit the keys you’re playing on the music keyboard to your Mac. You have a few ways to play those instruments. Essentially, GarageBand turns your Mac into a music synthesizer-one capable of playing purely synthetic sounds as well as mimicking real instruments such as pianos, other keyboards, guitars, drums, basses, voices, and orchestral instruments. Embedded in the application are software instruments.

But this isn’t the only sound it’s capable of producing. In our last lesson I told you that GarageBand has a collection of prerecorded loops and a Drummer track.
