Minilab 3 w/iPad Garageband

[Howard L Shure]

Hi. Just starting my journey in the world of midi controllers and DAW's. I picked up a Minilab 3 to use with GarageBand on my iPad and wanted to know if I need to do something specific to get the knobs, sliders, and transport controls to work. I plugged it into the iPad and was able to play using the keyboard, I just can't seem to get the other controls to integrate.

I appreciate any help you guys can offer.

Thanks!

[Perry Bennett]

Hi, just from my general experience, midi controllers used with GarageBand on iOS can only use the basic features like keys, mod wheel, and pitch bend wheel. There isn’t a way that I know of to assign midi to the knobs, sliders, etc…

On a related topic, I picked up the Minilab 3 recently for use with GarageBand on the Mac, and was testing it out with GarageBand on iOS and can not get any sound when I play the keyboard. I am using a direct USB C to USB C apple-branded cable.

Perry

[unklebooey]

I got sounds working in Garageband for iOS with the Minilab 3, I just don't see the keys moving on screen, but that is ok. I am still able to record the parts I am playing.

Perry

[Dallinga]

The standard Apple usbc cable is charge only I believe, a thunderbolt3 (usbc-usbc) cable works fine