Music Production

Jamstik Quick Tips for GarageBand - How To Set the Metronome in GarageBand

When you record, you’ll usually want a reference for tempo. The metronome (the triangular icon next to the volume slider in the top bar) provides an audible click for you to play to.

Jamstik Quick Tips for GarageBand - How To Select an Instrument in GarageBand

The Jamstik plays more than just guitar sounds if you know how to select them. Connect your Jamstik to GarageBand for iOS via Bluetooth so you can make music, write songs, produce, and have fun.

Jamstik Quick Tips for GarageBand - How To Connect Your Jamstik to GarageBand

Apple's GarageBand is a great first step into music production. We'll walk you through getting connected to GarageBand on your iOS Device.

Ableton Live 10 Release Date Announced - Feb 6

Ableton announced the release date for Live 10, the promised and awaited update to their tremendously popular DAW.

Create Music Online with Soundtrap's DAW for Google Chrome

We're excited to announce the integration of the jamstik with Soundtrap—an online music studio that operates directly in your Google Chrome browser and allows you to collaborate with others in real-time.

Start Making Music On Your PC with Cakewalk's SONAR Artist

Jamstik and Cakewalk have teamed up again! Our good friend Craig Anderton released custom presets for Rapture Session as a bonus download exclusively available for this bundle.

How to Create Your First Song in BeatHawk with the Jamstik

BeatHawk is a music creation app created by UVI, a France-based development team that makes software for professional audio production. From the quality sound-packs, clean interface, and usability, it’s a homerun for any mobile musician.

Check out the new Audio FX Chain in the iOS jamstik+ App!

In the latest version of the jamstik+ app (v 1.7.3) we’ve added an Audio FX chain with simple effects and amp models for you to play with your jamstik+. An effects chain can string together guitar-pedal and amp simulations on top of your sound.

Revolutionize boring GarageBand tracks with killer drum samples

For all of GarageBand's amazing features and improvements, there's one place where some users believe GarageBand falls flat quickly; drum sounds. This blog is going to walk through a specific AudioUnit Extension enabled app, UVI's BeatHawk, to play new drum sounds in GarageBand like a software plugin.

Transcribing with Guitar Pro 7 and the Jamstik+

If you've wanted to use the jamstik+ for composition or notation, Guitar Pro 7 allows you to do exactly that for guitar, bass, drum, or keyboard using tablature and/or standard notation!

Helpful Tips for Using SONAR with the Jamstik+

With the recent announcement of SONAR & Windows compatibility, the opportunity for connecting Bluetooth MIDI Controllers like jamstik is now available with ease.

Making Beats with the Jamstik: How MIDI Drums Get Mapped

Get the lowdown on how to use the jamstik+ as a MIDI controller for playing drum kits in your favorite app or DAW, and why we have to deal with something called "General MIDI."

How to use the Jamstik+ in Ableton Live - Free Ableton Patch Download

We've been working on developing some tools for Jamstik+ users working with Ableton Live, check out this cool-sounding Instrument Rack you can download to try yourself.

New MIDI App Review Series Launch: Apps We Got To Have

"Apps We Got To Have” is a series dedicated to sharing info about the apps that we love to use with the jamstik. We’re not concerned with doing “deep dive” style reviews where we go over every detail of an app in exhaustive fashion, we’ll leave that to Dischord and Synthtopia. What we want to do is demonstrate the one or two things we love about an app, what makes it valuable for use with the jamstik.

Thoughts on Mark Ronson's TED Talk "How Sampling Transformed Music"

Sampling isn't about "hijacking nostalgia wholesale," says Mark Ronson. It's about inserting yourself into the narrative of a song while also pushing that story forward.

How to Re-Create the Sound of a Pop Song in GarageBand

Recently, I re-created Charli XCX’s song “Boom Clap” using only a MIDI guitar controller (jamstik). We set out to do as much as we could with the jamstik exclusively in GarageBand and the iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 really works well for this, so it’s not really a challenge to work only in the iPhone as a “limitation.” Like we demonstrate in our “GarageBand Loop Recording” video, you can record your ideas without stopping the music if you make your instrument track selections in advance.

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