Not sure if this has been posted yet (not to my knowledge at leas), so apologies if it's redundant info: So I finally got GarageBand last week and had a small amount of time to play with it. It's a very intuitive and flexible tool for mocking up song ideas, and I suppose you could take it as far as you wanted to if you had the time. At the same time, while I liked the quality of GB's drum samples, I didn't like the inflexibility of the drum sequencing. So I started to think that perhaps they are using a drum sequencer of their own design, since beats can be slowed down or sped up without any effect of sound quality. This would mean they probably have some sample files laying around somewhere that just might be importable to, er, other applications. After some poking around, I hit the mother-load and discovered the directory containing all of the instrument samples in AIFF format, all ready for Doggiebox. Of course, I should caution this with the usual disclaimers and questions as to the legality of using Apple's samples in Doggiebox, but I also can't see how it would hurt, as you are essentially doing with them what you would do in GarageBand. At any rate, the kind folks at Apple have recorded the drum samples at various velocities, hit styles, and volumes, which lends itself perfectly to making new kits with Doggiebox. Basically, the samples all live in: /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/ In there anything ending with the word "Kit" is a drum kit. File names are prepended with the initials for that particular drum tool. I.E., BD for bass drum, HH for hi-hat, SD for snare, CR for crash, etc. Just open up Doggiebox, create a new kit, and go to town. Have fun! On a related topic, if you want to use GarageBand's midi capabilities for simple midi parts and don't own a midi keyboard, I found this app which lets your computer keyboard function as a midi input device. Pretty slick: http://www.manyetas.com/creed/midikeys_beta.html Not used it yet, but looks promising for my needs. -Bret