Long time Macintosh writer and Macworld columnist Anyd Ihnatko displayed a very cool instrument this past week at Macworld Boston. It was a ukuele with a built in USB port to hook directly up to a computer without the need for any other external devices. Dubbed the iUke, it was built for him by the folks over at Brian Moore Custom Guitars/iGuitar. You can read the story behind the iUke’s creation as well as see a picture of the instrument at the following link:
Welcome to iUke on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
The iUke works perfectly with GarageBand. Just plug it in, fire up GarageBand, and play away. Andy says he will post sample audio from the device on his personal site shortly.
That’s pretty sweet. As a uke fan, it might be pretty cool to get one. I’ll just keep dreaming!
I’m not a uke fan per se but I’d still like to get my hands on one of those. I bet Nick (who’s quite a talented GarageBand-er) could put out some pretty serious tunes in GB with this thing.