Kid Ambition

Is It Really?

i just bought the 100 dollar keyboard from m-audio to have some fun and mess around with making some beats, but i am having a problem with looping. ok say for instance i make a real quick melody or whatever, once i finish hitting the keys i have to go to my keyboard and hit stop. now the problem is that when i go to loop the beat it does not loop right, its off beat, so i find my self trimming "cutting" parts of the track back and forth. its pissin me off really. i know im not doing something right cause this is too much. what is it that im doing wrong?

Garageband Loops

When i open GB loops there is nothing there. all the loop buttons are gray as if nothing is there. i hit reset but nothing. is it because of my new keyboard? i've used it before and everything was fine, but all of a sudden today this happened.

I Cant Get A Clear Connect To Garageband

I'm pretty new to macs and computers really, but i am having a big problem and it does not let me move forward. Ok am a DJ and I have never used a computer to record. Now the thing is that I am trying to record my yinyl records onto the computer as i mix it ( I have a 1200 turntable and a vestax mixer hooked up up to an maudio interface). my problem is that when i record into the computer the result is a crappy sound. Now i don't have the beat ear but i know the sound is crap. i try to use the the equalizers and things like that but nothing. Now to add to that problem is that I also want to ad aiff, wav, mp3, etc. whatever the file maybe to the rest of the tracks that I put in, but the quality is so different in them that you can tell as you hear the mix. I need help bad, I want to drop mix cd's but can't. Can someone help me? One more thing. I also need something to split my tracks, is audacity good?