Can I play 2 instruments/tracks at once?

Is there a way to achieve this: Play my guitar through one of the amp sims (via my Tascam IU2) and also be able to play one of the built-in keyboard instruments?
I'm basically trying to use this setup at band rehearsal instead of lugging my gear. I normally play through a POD HD500 and a Roland Guitar synth. I mainly use the synth to play a keyboard part during part of a song or maybe a sax solo, etc. If I could somehow keep the guitar 'live' and somehow switch to the keyboard track that would be ideal. Any ideas of if this is possible? Or even using a second app for the keyboard synth and keep the guitar from Garageband running in the background.
Thanks,
Chris

Ok, tried the Jam feature and it didn't work as I had hoped. I had GB running on my iPod 4th Gen. I had my guitar hooked up to it via the Tascam iU2 and was playing a guitar sim. I then ran GB on my iPad and was running one of the keyboards. I initiated a Jam session on the ipod and joined the session from the ipad. I had thought that by playing the keyboard on the ipad it would transmit the activity to the ipod and the ipod would actually produce the sound (kind of like midi via the airwaves). But that's not how it worked. The ipad still generated the sound itself. I thought maybe you had to actually be recording in order for it to work the way I wanted, but no. When recording the ipad actually started when I hit record on the ipod and recorded its own part. When I hit stop, the ipod 'gathered' the performance info from the ipad and generated a new track with the keyboard info. Which is great, but not what I was trying to achieve. Oh well. Doesn't look like there's any way to do this, bummer.

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hey guys, i have a MOTU 24i interface and allen/heath board. with this setup i can record up to 24 separate "real instrument" tracks at once into my Mac Pro w/ 5GB ram and 500GB HD.
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