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Connect a keyboard controller

Connect a keyboard controller - GarageBand Tutorial

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Connect a keyboard controller

- [Instructor] Now, let's talk about how to connect a MIDI Keyboard to your Mac for use in Garage Band. The first step of course is figuring out which keyboard to buy. If you're only planning on using a MIDI Keyboard to play music with Garage Band you can buy just about any keyboard on the market today. The only decisions you really have to make are how many keys you want the keyboard to have and whether you want the keyboard to also be a synthesizer. Calling a keyboard a synthesizer simply means that the keyboard is capable of producing its own sounds without being hooked up to a computer or MIDI device. The synthesizer has its own banks of sounds to play and either speakers or an audio output jack through which to play the sounds. The keyboards that can produce sounds on their own and are just used to trigger samples in programs like Garage Band are called controllers. Actually Garage Band itself could be referred to as…

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