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Apple GarageBand ®
MIDI Setup Guide: MIDI Control with 3rd Party Applications
POD Studio or TonePort KB37 works automatically with Apple GarageBand to record MIDI
notes and trigger the Software Instruments within a GarageBand Instrument track - all that is needed
for this is to connect the KB37 to your Mac ® USB port and then launch GarageBand. When a Software
Instrument track is selected, playing on the KB37 keyboard will trigger its assigned instrument, and
the Pitch and Mod wheel will often each control a performance parameter, depending on how the
Software Instrument is written to utilize them.
Additionally, the Line 6 Audio-MIDI driver includes a MIDI Mapping preset that configures the
KB37 Knob 1 and Knob 2 to controls the current GarageBand track’s Volume and Pan, respectively. To
load the GarageBand preset, launch the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices utility (within you Mac ® System
Preferences). within the MIDI tab, select the GarageBand preset from the MIDI Mapping menu:
Unfortunately, GarageBand uses its own proprietary protocol for controlling most of its other parameters,
therefore, the UX2/UX8/KB37’s MIDI controllers cannot access other GarageBand functions directly.
However, there are 3rd party software utilities you can install on your Mac ® that will allow you to use
the KB37 Transport buttons to control GarageBand transport functions.
In order to control the Transport functions in GarageBand with the KB37 you will need to have
version 2.0.1 of GarageBand or later. The GarageBand software cannot do this natively and so you will
need to download add-on software that permits MIDI messages to control the play and stop buttons
in GarageBand.
GarageRemote is one such 3rd party software and is available here: http://www.muratnkonar.com/
otherstuff/garageremote/
Once GarageRemote is installed and set up, start GarageRemote’s ‘Listener’ (it is off by default) so that
it can relay MIDI notifications to GarageBand. GarageBand responds to MIDI CC’s 007 and 010 for
current track volume and pan, and these parameters can be assigned to the existing GarageBand MIDI
preset of the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices settings.
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