How to transfer a garageband file from Mac to iPad?

It is not possible. You can open iPad songs in GarageBand on the Mac, but not a song modified on the Mac on the iPad. It is one-way. You can only bounce the Mac song as an audio file to iTunes and sync the song as an audio file to your iPad. Use that to add additional tracks in a new project.

The newest GarageBand for Mac, version 10.2.0 has a new Share command: Share > Project to GarageBand for iOS.

If you save this project on iCloud Drive, you can open it in GarageBand on the iPad. But all tracks will be mixed as one single audio track. You could as well share the mixed song to iTunes.

I have transfered a Garage Band song done on the Mac to my iPad by sharing each track individually via Airdrop to iCloud then importing them each into the iPad version in a new song. Go to Loops, audio file and drag each one into the GB timeline. Works perfectly and I don't know why Apple does not explain this.

I, too, want to work on a GB project, switching between my Mac (Sierra) and my iPad (10.1.1). I am able to get the files from the iPad to the Mac, and I can then work on them on the Mac. But, even when I simply rename the project or if i delete one track, and then put the file into iTunes sharing for GB, when I attempt to access them on the iPad, I get the message "Cannot Open Song-This song was created with GarageBand on Mac and cannot be opened. Please select a song created with GarageBand for iOS."

Any ideas?

Recorded some tracks on Garageband on the Mac; and want to transfer the file to my iOS device.

You can only sync GarageBand projects from your mac to the iPad that originally have been created on your iPad. Creating a project on the iPad, then sending it to a mac, opening it on the Mac, doing some edits (but nothing that is not supported on the iPad), then upload it again to the iPad will work. But sendind a Mac-created GarageBand project to the iPad is not possible. The applications are just too different.

You can open your mp3 in GarageBand on the iPad, however. Sync it to the iPad using iTunes, so you see it in the Music.app on your iPad. All songs there can be accessed from the Loop Browser on the iPad, see: Import a song from the Music app

To sync projects between iPad and Mac use iTunes.

To send a song from the iPad to your mac as a project, share the song to iTunes > GarageBand.

Sync your iPad with your computer.

In iTunes, the exported song appears in the Documents list in the File Sharing area when GarageBand is selected.

To send the project back to the iPad, add it to garageBand's Documents list in iTunes.

Regards

Léonie

You can convert Mac garageband songs to load on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch models that run Garageband, so Mac x to ios and ios to Mac X is indeed possible.

I did a video which I uploaded to youtube using my fixed1t name which shows how I constructed a song on the Mac Garageband and iPad Garageband by sending the song backwards and forwards adding a track and converting the song as required. There is also a video showing a converter Mac Garageband song running a a 4th Generation iPod.

I spent some time doing this manually then I wrote a converter which I sell for a modest £15 - £22 UK pounds, the video talks about using my converter because thats what I used to do the conversion.

In line with list policy I openly state: "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link."

But you don't have to buy I am happy to provide a trial, then if you want to do it manually for fre

Hello, does your software work in current 2017 versions?

Thanks