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” ...

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 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 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" ...

A fancy new iPhone’s as good a reason as any to bring a big upgrade to Apple’s free music production service, GarageBand. The iOS version of the app is getting a slew of updates for 2.3, starting with ...

Apple recently released version 1.1 of GarageBand for iOS, adding a few features and squashing a few bugs on the iPad version of its music creation software. Perhaps the biggest new feature, however, ...

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 ...

Making music on a phone or tablet is generally an unpleasant experience. It's easy enough to bang out a melody in a cute app like Bebot or whip up some controlled chaos in a soft synth like Animoog.

Let’s get this clear: I’m not a musician. I can play the piano a little bit, and I can sight-read music a little bit, but my musical education ended when I was in my early teens. Over the years, I’ve ...