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How do I upload a song from itunes to garage band on my ipad?

How do I upload a song from itunes to garage band on my ipad?

GarageBand (iPad)

Posted on Apr 29, 2011 8:44 AM

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Jul 4, 2011 12:24 AM in response to Apfelwurm

This is a poor way of doing this but the only way I found to do this is to record your music into the sampler using the microphone then record the sample. I don't like doing this because of clarity and lack of manipulating the track once created. It would be nice if GB added this feature. Also it would be cool if you could mix down the tracks into one so we could have more tracks to work with.

Aug 30, 2011 2:29 PM in response to bluefray08

You need the song in an uncompressed format (wav or aiff) and you need Garageband '11 on your Mac if you want to be able to get the session off your iPad and back to your Mac, although you can probably still export to the iPad with GB '08 or even earlier- you're just using GB on the Mac to convert the file.


Here's how to do this under iOS 4- it might change under iCloud, who knows.


1. On the Mac, pick the track you want from iTunes, right click, Show In Finder.

2. Still on the Mac, launch GB, start an empty project. Go back to your Finder window, drag & drop the song mp3 into GB, which uncompresses the file.

3. In GB, go to Share, Export Song to Disk, and ensure 'Compress' is unchecked in the following dialogue box.

4. Back to iTunes. Plug in your iPad and click on its icon within iTunes. Select the 'Apps' tab, scroll down to File Sharing, click on Garageband's icon in the left column. Click 'add' on the bottom right. Go find the file you made in step 3.

5. Sync your iPad if it didn't already automatically do so. Start GB and create a new song with a blank Audio Recorder track.

6. Click on the jigsaw piece (sections.) Set Section A to 'Automatic.'

7. Tap anwhere in the empty track to get the 'Import' button.

8. Pick the aif file you mde in step 3 and synced in steps 4-5.

9. Enjoy!

How do I upload a song from itunes to garage band on my ipad?

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