New - Pls Help. Confused About Hardware, iMac with 10.5 - need USB MIDI interface Options

[pigletto78]

Hi
I've been surfing the net to find a USB MIDI interface which will work with my Intel iMac using 10.5. I'm a bit confused and would welcome any advice.

I would like to connect my Yamaha PSR 550 to the Mac and use Garageband. I also have an acoustic guitar and would like to buy a mic and also be able to connect this and also record vocals. I think I need a 'condensor' mic for this?

So in short, I need a USB Midi device with Mic for vocal (and mic for acoustic guitar without a pickup), and Midi input.

I would rather spend a bit more on something with all these features than a 1 MIDI in/ 1 MIDI out cheapo wire, but I don't want to end up paying for things I will never use as a beginner amateur.

I've seen some bad feedback on some models which don't yet have drivers for 10.5.

Can anyone help recommend some hardware?! Thanks in advance.

Hannah

[DeniseMusic]

Got the Tascam interface today and was able to record a guitar and vocal track on garageband. Seems like a small accomplishment for some but not me - it was a big one. Took a little while to figure out a few things but the recording came out very clean. I just used my stage mic, a Beta 87A, and it worked great. I understand the latency issue but there is a dial on the unit to combine the computer signal with the input signal . So when i sang over the guitar track, I turned it so I could hear the input more and that seemed to work fine. What is helping the most is that I've been in real studios lots of times and watched and asked questions so at least I know how to do a few things. I didn't know why some beginnings and endings of words were getting cut off and then I accidentally adjusted the gate and solved the issue.
Hopefully this wasn't beginners luck. I am going to try adding bass and maybe keyboards tomorrow. Take care!