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<blockquote data-quote="mhektoen89" data-source="post: 1568854" data-attributes="member: 300530">Funny getting a reply on an old thread. I don't use garageband anymore, I started using cubase, but anyway, a DAW is a DAW. I have done some various recordings from my electric drum set and if you want to use a midi-cable you won't get any sound, because you're only sending a signal. The midi signal is just a trigger, so to get drum sound you will need a virtual drum set instrument in your DAW. Don't know if garageband has any by default. Type StudioDrummer, or EZDrums in google to see examples of VST-instruments. So, the easiest may be to use a jack/mini-jack directly in your line in and set up a audio track instead of midi track in garageband. If you have an external sound card you could record stereo out from your drums set and that could be satisfying if your drums produce a nice sound themselves. Hope any of this helped, Michael</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mhektoen89, post: 1568854, member: 300530"] Funny getting a reply on an old thread. I don't use garageband anymore, I started using cubase, but anyway, a DAW is a DAW. I have done some various recordings from my electric drum set and if you want to use a midi-cable you won't get any sound, because you're only sending a signal. The midi signal is just a trigger, so to get drum sound you will need a virtual drum set instrument in your DAW. Don't know if garageband has any by default. Type StudioDrummer, or EZDrums in google to see examples of VST-instruments. So, the easiest may be to use a jack/mini-jack directly in your line in and set up a audio track instead of midi track in garageband. If you have an external sound card you could record stereo out from your drums set and that could be satisfying if your drums produce a nice sound themselves. Hope any of this helped, Michael [/QUOTE]

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