Hello there, (General Kenoby)
I've been a Mac user since 2014 and back then I bought a used macbook pro 2011 13 inch. I've also played guitar since 2009 and when I bought my 2011 macbook pro, I was thrilled to see that I could actually plug my guitar into the single audio jack via a 1/4 inch to 1/8 inch audio adapter and use GarageBand without any issues. I continued to do so for a few years afterwards, then the mac broke, I used a windows laptop a couple of months and a month ago I bought a new 2017 macbook pro 13 w/o touchbar.
I was again thrilled for GarageBand, as I was expecting even better performance, less input lag, better audio quality etc, but unfortunately, no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to work. I tried setting it as input in all kinds of settings panels, both in GarageBand and in macOS (btw Mojave 14.4, but previously was on High Sierra 13.6, same story), but to no avail.
I am trying by using a 1/8 inch - 1/8 inch audio cable, with a 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch adapters plugged into my guitar. I can play that way with my amp, by using another adapter, without any issues.
I also tried using the cable of my Marshall Major II headphones, which is removable, and also has a microphone. And when I do that, the system defaults to External Microphone, which uses the cable's microphone, and I cannot change the input source to anything else.
I read somewhere that you could only play guitar with GarageBand via an audio interface of some sort, which is objectively wrong to me, because I used to be able to play without one, using my previous 8 years-old computer. If Apple have removed the line-in functionality of the new macbooks, that would be very unfortunate.
I would appreciate any comment on the topic, as maybe I'm doing something wrong, which I hope is the case.
I've been a Mac user since 2014 and back then I bought a used macbook pro 2011 13 inch. I've also played guitar since 2009 and when I bought my 2011 macbook pro, I was thrilled to see that I could actually plug my guitar into the single audio jack via a 1/4 inch to 1/8 inch audio adapter and use GarageBand without any issues. I continued to do so for a few years afterwards, then the mac broke, I used a windows laptop a couple of months and a month ago I bought a new 2017 macbook pro 13 w/o touchbar.
I was again thrilled for GarageBand, as I was expecting even better performance, less input lag, better audio quality etc, but unfortunately, no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to work. I tried setting it as input in all kinds of settings panels, both in GarageBand and in macOS (btw Mojave 14.4, but previously was on High Sierra 13.6, same story), but to no avail.
I am trying by using a 1/8 inch - 1/8 inch audio cable, with a 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch adapters plugged into my guitar. I can play that way with my amp, by using another adapter, without any issues.
I also tried using the cable of my Marshall Major II headphones, which is removable, and also has a microphone. And when I do that, the system defaults to External Microphone, which uses the cable's microphone, and I cannot change the input source to anything else.
I read somewhere that you could only play guitar with GarageBand via an audio interface of some sort, which is objectively wrong to me, because I used to be able to play without one, using my previous 8 years-old computer. If Apple have removed the line-in functionality of the new macbooks, that would be very unfortunate.
I would appreciate any comment on the topic, as maybe I'm doing something wrong, which I hope is the case.