GarageBand For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 21

Jamming with Others over Wi-Fi

IN THIS CHAPTER

Becoming the leader of a jam

Becoming a member of a jam

Playing in a jam session

Did you know you can jam with other GarageBand users over Wi-Fi? Playback and recording is synchronized among all connected devices, which means you can play and record together as a duo or even a whole band. In this chapter, you discover how to set up a jam session, how to control playback and recording of your session, and anything else you might need to know in order to jam with friends.

You should know three things before you get too excited. The first is that the Mac version of GarageBand isn’t invited to this jam session — only iOS and iPadOS users can play. The second is that jam sessions work only with touch instruments and tracks view. In other words, the live loops grid is off-limits for jam sessions (although that would be a hoot). Finally, a jam session can have no more than eight tracks. I talk about this again later in the chapter, but for now, that’s all you need to know.

Let’s dive right in.

Becoming the Bandleader

A jam session’s creator is called the bandleader. I’m going to assume that’s you for the rest of this chapter to ...