About the Workshop Booklets, About This Booklet

About the Workshop Booklets

Roland’s SonicCell is designed for modern musicians. Using USB, It adds a huge set of sounds to your digital audio workstation (or “DAW”) without adding to your computer’s workload. It’s also an audio interface that can get signals from mics, instruments, or other devices to DAW tracks for recording. SonicCell’s Editor software allows you to program SonicCell from within your DAW. Onstage, its compact size also makes SonicCell the ideal companion for a laptop DAW, letting you perform and sing along with recorded tracks. Or use it to play back sequences and audio files from a USB memory stick.

Each SonicCell Workshop booklet focuses on one SonicCell topic, and is intended as a companion to the SonicCell Owner’s Manual. This booklet requires SonicCell O.S. Version 1.11 or higher. You can download the latest SonicCell O.S. for free from www.RolandUS.com.

About This Booklet

This booklet contains instructions for using SonicCell with Apple’s GarageBand. First we’ll discuss how to use SonicCell’s synth sounds with GarageBand. Next, we’ll talk about SonicCell as as an audio interface, telling you how to record live audio from SonicCell into GarageBand.

We’ll assume you’ve installed and know how to operate GarageBand— otherwise, consult GarageBand’s built-in documentation in its Help menu. We’ll also assume you’ve read the Using SonicCell with a DAW and Using SonicCell as an Audio Interface Workshop booklets, that SonicCell and your computer are hooked up and turned on, and that you’re listening through SonicCell.

Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet

Throughout this booklet, you’ll come across information that deserves special attention—that’s the reason it’s labeled with one of the following symbols.

A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.

A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.

Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.

Configuring GarageBand to Work With SonicCell

Setting Up GarageBand for SonicCell Audio

Since GarageBand records only at a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz, set the SonicCell to 44.1 kHz as described in the Using SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet.

To configure GarageBand so it’s using the SonicCell for its inputs and outputs:

1From the GarageBand menu at the top of the screen, select Preferences...

2At the top of the Preferences window, click Audio/MIDI to open the Audio/MIDI preferences pane of the Preferences window.

3Set both the Audio Output and Audio Input parameters to Roland SonicCell 44.1 kHz.

After each selection GarageBand asks “Change audio driver?” Click Yes to proceed both times.