Garageband 10- Dead space at end of song

Hello,


I make songs for video games. As such, it is often necessary to loop songs seamlessly.


In earlier versions of Garageband, I would slide the end time bar to the end of the last note, and export it. I would then play it back in my game creation program and loop the song every time it finishes.


But in the new version, exporting adds an extra two seconds of nothingness to the end of the track! So I have to import the song into Audacity and cut off the end, which I can never do right.


So is there any way to export without the dead space?

All Mac and Windows PCs, I guess.-OTHER

Posted on Jan 17, 2014 8:15 PM

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May 10, 2014 10:41 AM in response to Nick GB

GarageBand does no longer honor the Cycle Region on export, if the song has reverb or echo. Then a few seconds will be added automatically, for the effects to die away. Only ringtones will be exported at the exact length without added silence.


Edgar posted a work-around somewhere.

The quick-and-dirty work-around to trim the song to an exact length is to export the song, reimport it, cut off the added silence, and then select the trimmed region and add it to the Loop Browser. (File > Add Region to Loop Library).


The loop audio file will have the exact length. You'll find it in your user library:

~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops/SingleFiles/

May 13, 2014 8:33 AM in response to Nick GB

You see! This is part of the bloody problem! How the **** did urging get in there? That was suppose to be 'think' You've got to be so careful with this spell 'corrector'. The software is getting too **** smart for... Everybody's good. I preferred Microsoft word where it would underline a bad spelling or dubious gramma... After all, I do make lot's of mistakes.


Anyway I digress too far

May 13, 2014 8:44 AM in response to Nick GB

Nick GB wrote:


You've got to be so careful with this spell 'corrector'. The software is getting too **** smart for... Everybody's good.


if you don't like the corrector, you can turn it off:


Edit menu->Spelling and Grammar->Correct Spelling Automatically


(though i've never had the problem with the new forum software, it has its own spell checker that doesn't auto correct anything here)

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