RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

I. Bought the iPad because of the touch screen operation. Most of the time it's great

If I want to Play keyboard app on iPad , do I get camera kit and select midi in GarageBand? What I'm trying to do,is use a moog for example in GarageBand. Please advise Cheers

Oh my god! Just found the answer. How dumb am I..) GarageBand rocks

Pretty cool

Okay, I have GarageBand ( no bass amps). I have amplitude ,and it all works in my monitors. I have played around with GB ,and am impressed by what you can do. What I would like to do , is play my bass , with the GarageBand drums at the same time. Can it be done? I think it can on the normal version of GB. Also, I have downloaded some cool synth apps , and would like to use them in GarageBand the same way. Please could someone advise me how to record song ideas? While all these apps and the iPad look lovely, I don't want complication. Please advise .) Cheers

I'm on here a lot too.having said that, I can't do it at work, so instead of watching brain dead tv I browse here most evenings. I ve run out of inspiration again for about a year. Just recently got iPad to regain some inspiration. As for yo EH : I advise you to relax. Don't beat yourself up about your learning of songs. I also think that you could either see a teacher on a weekly basis if you can afford. Or you could get DVD not too advanced of your favourite bass players. Or you could leave the bass alone for a few weeks, and see if you miss it. Hope it works out

I'd imagine you'd have to get the nut removed and another put on in it's place. Also , you may have to give the truss rod a slight adjustment .

Okay.. Got a little worried when a I connected bass to irig. I had to Go to amplitude app to confirm I was using loudspeakers. The Kaossilator was working but the guitar output wasn't. It's all sorted now. Played my steinberger through the gk free app. It was okay but noisy. I then went into amplitude , and despite playing through a Marshall stack , there was not as much noise as the gk app. I switched the amp off. However, when doing this , there was still sound. !?! I then went to GarageBand. That was good, but there are no bass amps available! If I could buy one, I would. A bit ignorant from apple. I may purchase the bass amp from amplitude .There is only one. It amazes me that, despite the products telling us to "plug your guitar or bass" , the bass is overlooked. Anyway, the pod farm has to stay with the mac mini, now moved to the living room. I am pleased at the results of the irig so far. I believe line6 will release the equivalent of podfarm in2012 and that will probably be best for us bass players.

Love the look of 'em, but too much fiddling around , getting an average sound at best . Eden nemesis combo, blows it out of the water. Aguilar also . What I love about the aggy and Eden, Is that there is minimum fiddling with the tone controls...unlike the trace. And of course , the weight".....

Xmas update ! Got some leads from Maplin. Setup will be:iPad , irig, studio monitors. Briefly plugged irig into pad, and played the Korg Kaossilator which sounded great. Will try bass later. If Gk app sounds ok, I will download full version. Will let you know how it goes. Merry Christmas

Mmmm could be a sale nxt year.)

Okay, we all love our basses.whether its 1or more . It's seems that (and I could be wrong) guitarists Have the amp that goes with the axe.They have valves , tubes etc. With bass, until recent times , it was like carrying a herd of buffalo to a gig big or small venues. Then ,as it's a bass amp , more vibration means more chance of repair.(IMHO) Anyway , after getting fed up with the band situation, I wonder if it's worth keeping my Aguilar set up. At the moment it's just stuck at the top of the bed. As my brother is a lodger for the unforseeable future, I'm not sure when it will be displayed properly .shame as its a nice tweed cab. Am I getting too attracted to the amp, or should I jut plug in to the iPad from now on? Do you display your amps?

Yeah, think I'll. Do that . Cheers

Must just be my machine then

I've decided the thing to do , is buy a speaker dock from it with USB. Also , I've just found out that line 6 are gonna do a similar irig/apogee type of thing probably next year. Cheers

My first gig was, in a pub opposite where capital radio used to be . It was for my 3oth birthday, in front of 200 people. Before , I was scared. After 2 songs and dodgy monitor box sorted out ,I loved it. We found venue by chance. , as there was a flood in the pub we were gonna play in.we had4 days to get somewhere or my birthday was ruined. The band was formed of workmates(some of my best friends still now ) The singer was already in a band, the drummer quit so we had a friend who was also a gig virgin. , who played drums through his keyboards. The guitarist. who now runs ch guitars, showed ginger from the wild hearts how to play. He also showed me how to play. Great night

About 2 weeks ago I was prompted by software update to download the latest version of iphone(5from4) also my iTunes on my mac mini. What's happening since, is that I every time I try to go into I tunes , it keeps telling my to download the latest version that I've already done. I have to manually go into my iTunes folder go access music etc Does anyone else have this problem?

just tried the free version of gk app (very briefly). The sound is slightly better. Just wondering whether I should take this back to Apple and go for the Apogee instead. Wonder how many days I have to do it...Got the irig last Friday

Thanks for that chaps. I don't fancy returning the irig(bought it last friday) . If I get the GK app , will that do it?

Just looked at the preferences on the irig. (setup /level in/level out) The volume is a tad better. I am getting feedback . Now another (silly ) question: If I purchase the Bass head from amplitube, will the feedback disappear? What seems to be happining(in a nutshell), is that the lead amp on the irig is acting like an ordinary guitar amp. If it was not a virtual amp ,it would blow up. Please could you advise

Okay , I got myself a new iPad .also a new irig. I downloaded a few apps. When I plugged irig into the iPad , the sound was not very loud.(admittedly , I only played the bass through the 1amp provided and never downloaded the bass amp yet.) Questions and set up: currently I play my bass through pod farm and a pair of studio monitors. I tried plugging the irig into the line6 ux1 box which leads To the monitors. The sound was barely audible. I then tried the iPad into my hi fi and that seemed okay. So , do I sell the studio monitors? Or is there something I could do instead? I haven't tried GarageBand yet. Please help Cheers

Jackson bc rich ESP Spector and the rest already mentioned

Cheers rob and all

Thanx guys. This week, ipad and irig.Garageband will also be tried. Then ,I record (something)