Just to put in a good word about Apple, after hammering it in two recent blogs. I've just been setting up an old Evolution MK-149 midi keyboard for a nephew to use, via an Edirol UA-20 interface, with the Garage music production software that comes with Macs. There was no reason to  expect that  the keyboard and interface would cause problems, but using legacy peripherals can be tricky sometimes and I can report that they set up home with my MacBook Air quite happily.

Garage looks like an excellent piece of software to introduce kids to computer music production, with a lot of grown-up features that hide their complexities well.

I'm still awaiting comment from Apple about my earlier blogs, and will keep you posted.