Exporting songs from Garageband on iPad to iTunes
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Yes, from this link (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4574), the post states:
"Songs created in GarageBand for iPad can not be opened in GarageBand for Mac. Projects created in GarageBand for Mac cannot be opened in GarageBand for iPad."
GB for iPad is not full featured and my desktop is not portable, so what then is the point if one cannot sync song files?!
Especially frustrating since in the Apps section of my iPad, when connected to iTunes states:
"File Sharing
The apps listed below can transfer documents between your iPad and this computer."
And right there in the list of sync-able apps is GarageBand, and it even let's me pick GB files from my desktop hard drive (fully loaded new iMac). They need a disclaimer that says "...but it can't play them!"
Use GarageBand for Mac 6.0.2 or later to open GarageBand for iPad songs.
But still not possible to send GB create from your MAC to your iPad
Hope they fixe that in the next version. I need that 😠
I've just started learning guitar and had the same problem as you. Here's the answer: You can use the original ipad, but you must have the latest version of garageband running on your mac as well.
Once you have a song for export, go to My Songs.
You'll see the export button, click it.
You can save the file in two formats, as a song for itunes (mp3 type of file) or a song for garageband (some other format that keeps the tracks/instruments separate).
Once you've chosen the type export.
Next:
Sync the pad with your mac in itunes. Go to apps and scroll down to the bottom where you'll find the garageband icon. If you click on this a list of songs you've saved previously will appear.
Click on the ones you want and choose to send to a folderr (this can be existant or you can create one just for export).
Find the folder on your mac and drag it onto the itunes window. This imports the files to your library.
For garageband tracks do exactly the same but open garageband on your mac and import from the folder.
Hope this helps, it was pretty frustrating at first but now I've got all my songs in Itunes and I can edit them in garageband.
Thank you! This was so simple but I just could not figure it out and really needed to send out a project...
God bless you
I get to this point but there are no tracks to select.....it looks as though GB is empty in iTunes but there are tracks there. It also only shows only 5 of the approx 30 documents in Pages. Any suggestions? And, there is no other file sharing option.....eg email.
I had the same question. Based on the answers here it didn't look like there was a "clean" solution if you don't own an imac which I don't.
I did the following:
1. Found a recording software on my PC
2. connected the ipad headphone output to the PC microphone input with a double sided 3.5mm jack
3. recorded the song by playing it on the ipad and recording it to the pc using the recording software
4. save the recorded song to the PC
5. added the file to my itunes.
a little cumbersome but works like a charm. The only problem is that my recording software is on a trial basis and will expire soon. But i assume you can find a free one or a cheap one on the net.
Hope this helps. If someone has a more efficient method, I'd love to hear about it.
<<The only problem is that my recording software is on a trial basis and will expire soon.>>
Trial-basis recording software?! I thought the whole world and his dog knew about Audacity...
Thanks so much! This did the trick after days of trying to figure it out.
Exporting songs from Garageband on iPad to iTunes