iPad GB song sounds very different loaded into GB on the Mac

Hello,

I've updated my GarageBand just now adding support for loading iPad GarageBand songs. Imagine my surprise when the two songs I had worked out on the iPad which needed some refinement didn't sound like the iPad would play them.

The sound of most instruments is right or very similar, but there are a few synths that do behave differently with certain settings. So much so, that I couldn't get the key part of one of my tracks to sound as good as on the iPad no matter how hard I tried.

Has anybody else experienced those discrepancies between what the iPad renders and what GarageBand '11 plays after importing the iPad song file?

Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.4.3), 1.5 GHz, Airport, Bluetooth, SuperDrive

Posted on Apr 1, 2011 11:57 AM

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Apr 1, 2011 12:21 PM in response to lastfuture

In addition I'm unable to edit the settings of those synths (sound generator "GarageBand Synths") as it doesn't give me any way to access the parameters. Neither through a click on the generator, nor via automation. How do I get to the parameters I can tweak on the iPad via the synth's knobs?
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Apr 3, 2011 4:00 PM in response to lastfuture

Yeah, the same happened to me: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13318758#13318758

Basically, the smart guitars tracks I recorded contained different, extra and missing notes when imported into GarageBand for Mac.

Looks like the problem is either in GB for iPad exporting to ".band", or in GB for Mac when importing the iPad ".band" files.

Or even worse, I think the problem may be in how the GB for iPad playbacks our songs :-/
Which means GB for Mac is accurate :-/
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