How to import/export individual tracks

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How to import/export individual tracks

I have a friend who records in Garage Band in the iPad. I use Sonar-Cakewalk on the PC (which is similar to Pro-Tools) and we are interested in collaborating by recording individual tracks in our separate studios and sending them back and forth. I have done this plenty of times with people in the past, but never with Garage Band.

Does my friend need to by a Mac and get the Mac version of Garage Band in order to be able to import/export individual tracks (aif/wav)?

I'm assuming this is not possible on the iPad version.

Side question - how can my friend export and share his iPad Garage Band files so I can open them on Garage Band on my iPad?

I appreciate any responses.

iPad, iOS 5.1

Posted on Sep 9, 2013 10:07 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 9, 2013 1:14 PM in response to gigasaurus

You can share songs in GB's iPad version, from the page which shows all the projects. That means mixing down the project to a single audio file which you can use on any platform.

So in order to export single tracks, you'd have to solo them and then export the song, go back and solo the next track, etc.

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gigasaurus Author

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Sep 9, 2013 1:26 PM in response to Christoph Drösser

Thanks Christoph, Thats very cool.

Do you know if the iPad version of Garage Band also has the ability to import an audio file (perhaps through iTunes) as a track into a GB file?

So if someone recorded a vocal track for a song in a separate studio, could that get imported into a GB file?

Thanks so much.

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léonie

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Sep 9, 2013 1:35 PM in response to gigasaurus

if the iPad version of Garage Band also has the ability to import an audio file (perhaps through iTunes) as a track into a GB file?

GarageBand on the iPad can import audio files from the Loop Browser. Your friend should sync the audio files to the iPad using iTunes, then the audio files will be available in the loop browser in GarageBand.

See this, for what is possible on the iPad: Get started

How to share songs from the iPad: Share GarageBand songs

How to import an audio file: Import an audio file

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