Tag: Apple

  • Logic Pro’s Apple Loops: The Gift That Keeps on Giving…

    Logic Pro’s Apple Loops: The Gift That Keeps on Giving…

    If Apple Loops can be good enough samples for Rihanna, Usher, and Linkin Park, they can be good enough for us too! Here’s how to use them.

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  • Kaki King Will ‘Never Go Back to a Pedalboard.’ Here’s Why

    Kaki King Will ‘Never Go Back to a Pedalboard.’ Here’s Why

    In the above video, featured in our free online course, Digital Pedalboards with Kaki King, our instructor, guitarist and composer Kaki King, shares her reasons for making the switch to a digital pedalboard, after years of touring around with a full rig of hardware. Here, she’s using Apple’s MainStage 3 software with a MIDI trigger pedal…

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  • Let Kaki King Walk You Through Her Live Electronics Setup

    Let Kaki King Walk You Through Her Live Electronics Setup

    In Kaki King’s brand-new, free course for Soundfly, Digital Pedalboards, she takes us through why she decided to make the switch to a digital pedalboard, how she makes use of this new, more compact electronics setup, and some helpful tips for how to customize the tech for our own use. Kaki’s setup involves only five pieces of gear.…

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  • Learn to Use a Digital Pedalboard Alongside Kaki King

    Learn to Use a Digital Pedalboard Alongside Kaki King

    New course announcement! Today, we’re launching a brand-new, free course with one of our absolute favorite guitarists on the planet (we are not alone), Kaki King, and no, it’s not a course in guitar shreddery. In this course, Digital Pedalboards with Kaki King, we take a deep dive into how and why she uses the Apple MainStage 3…

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  • The Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up a Home Studio: Picking the Right Computer

    The Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up a Home Studio: Picking the Right Computer

    If you’re tired of spending your hard-earned cash on hiring other people to record your demos, the logical next step is to set up your own recording studio at home. If that sounds daunting, it really shouldn’t. You can do so much with so little these days, and as time goes on, you can expand your gear…

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  • 5 Top Wireless Headsets for the On-the-Go Music Lover

    5 Top Wireless Headsets for the On-the-Go Music Lover

    With Apple having recently done away with their headphone jack, wireless headphones are popping up everywhere! Here are a few of our faves.

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  • A Short History of the Nearly Obsolete 1/8 Inch Headphone Jack

    A Short History of the Nearly Obsolete 1/8 Inch Headphone Jack

    Last week, Apple announced the release of the iPhone 7, among other new products and partnerships. The phone features innovative additions such as water resistant technology, dual lens cameras for professional quality photo and video, and sleek new design tweaks to the screen and phone body. Yet you’ve probably heard that something very noticeable will be missing from the new…

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  • The Essential Starter Kit for Performing Live with Clicks and Backing Tracks

    The Essential Starter Kit for Performing Live with Clicks and Backing Tracks

    + Learning to record and mix at home? Check out Soundfly’s acclaimed online courses on mixing, production, beat making and more — Subscribe for access. If you’re looking to set up your own laptop rig for live performance using click tracks and backing tracks, you’re going to need quite a bit of gear. Seeing as most of us…

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