Hey, is there a way to load a song from a CD onto a Garageband track, so it can then me mixied and manipulated?

Save the song as a WAV file...or maybe it's MP3. Can't remember, but I think it's WAV.
Drag and drop it into an open track.

Viola!
-A

Excellent. Thanks....I thought that maybe it was something like that.

Wait, the file on there right now is AIFF how do I save it as a WAV?

Oh, nevermind. I see what to do on iTunes....

Did you read your piano manual on midi?Are you running from Midi Chanel 1 Master Voice?Do you have Local set to Off?

I recently bought a digital piano, a Williams Legato Plus, so I can practice without irritating everyone in the house. I was hoping to get it working as a MIDI controller on Garageband as well but it's not happening as easily as I'd hoped. Checking 'Preferences' > 'Audio/MIDI,' it shows that Garageband picks up that a midi controller is plugged in, but it's not registering a signal when I open up a new track. I've called in to Apple and they couldn't figure it out. They told me to call Williams who was no help whatsoever. Everything on youtube says, 'Yeah, just plug it in to your USB port and open a track. Have fun!"Has anyone had/resolved an issue like this?

The channel was my issue. I was not following the verbiage of the manual but for some reason it clicked upon your responses. Thank you!

MWilke wrote:I recently bought a digital piano, a Williams Legato Plus, so I can practice without irritating everyone in the house. I was hoping to get it working as a MIDI controller on Garageband as well but it's not happening as easily as I'd hoped. Checking 'Preferences' > 'Audio/MIDI,' it shows that Garageband picks up that a midi controller is plugged in, but it's not registering a signal when I open up a new track. I've called in to Apple and they couldn't figure it out. They told me to call Williams who was no help whatsoever. Everything on youtube says, 'Yeah, just plug it in to your USB port and open a track. Have fun!"Has anyone had/resolved an issue like this?A couple of things that stick out from your post...- How, exactly, is the digital piano connected?- While I know this one is my fix for almost every problem I cannot fix with a Boss Line Selector pedal, Reaper has a fully functional demo. I would see if I could duplicate the issue in Reaper.

Big John wrote:Did you read your piano manual on midi?Are you running from Midi Chanel 1 Master Voice?Do you have Local set to Off?To piggyback on Big John... see pages 11 and 12. Try reset first. Then try Local Off. Then try changing the MIDI channel.http://williamspianos.com/wp-content/uploads/usermanuals/10190\_Williams\_Legato\_Keyboard\_Manual.pdf

Midi nomenclature is not intuitive as it was created from the hardware end and they don't rewrite it to make sense to you average user. Others who know more can correct me but the idea is that the keyboard is sending the midi data to the sound module in the keyboard so you have the option to;+ Turn the routing to the internal sound module off and route the midi on to another sound module / computer.+ Have the sound in your keyboard still operate and record midi and another sound module both.+ Just trigger your internal sound module without any midi out.Your computer was recognizing that the midi device (handshake) was there it was just not receiving the data down the channel it was expecting it to come. You can think of it a bit like patch cables and you need the right send/output to the right resecieve/input.Originally there were 16 lines but I think with the new midi standards there are quite a few more over a 100 and as wireless midi become common it will be even more as the wires have previously restrained the channels. As well with DAWS and AU/VST computer synths you end up with a lot of need for more.Midi can get a lot more complicated with using your computer to operate a number of external modules or if you get to the point that you are sending sysex data across to program things.There are some real fun synths in Garage Band and that you can download from internet free. So have fun and don't stress the techno. We all have these problems the first time.