GarageBand Exporting Silence

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GarageBand Exporting Silence

I'm currently using GarageBand 10.0.3 on OS X Yosemite 10.10.2. When I export a song via "Share>Song to iTunes," GarageBand is adding several seconds of silence to the end. I have the marker set to keep the end of the track where the sound files end and I have tried both with "Export Cycle Area" selected and with it not selected. This is on multiple different projects.

Everything is set where it should be--

Then I choose Share>Song to iTunes. At that point, the end of song marker bumps out automatically--

And the "Bouncing" line (white line moving along the track as it exports) drifts out into the black--

And then the final song in iTunes has unwanted seconds of total silence at the end. As I said, choosing to export only a selected or looped region doesn't make a difference. It will still export with silence at the end.

Any ideas what's happening here?

MacBook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 10, 2015 4:16 PM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Mar 10, 2015 5:09 PM in response to CaptPostMod

GarageBand is automatically adding a few seconds to allow the "reverb" to fade off.

See Edgar's answer in this discussion: Re: Garageband AIF export ends with 1-2 seconds of silence

If your bounced region is short, you could try a different fix, if the sound quality is sufficient. The only way right now to share from GarageBand to iTunes without adding silence is sharing by "Ringtone to iTunes". This will create ".m4r" files. After revealing the ringtone in the Finder by ctrl-clicking it in iTunes and using "Reveal", I can copy it rename the file extension to .m4a. These files can be converted to .aiff in iTunes.

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CaptPostMod Author

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Mar 10, 2015 5:23 PM in response to léonie

Interesting. It never did that prior to 10. I held off upgrading for more than a year because 6 was just so much better at working with plug-ins than 10. I'm wondering if I should go back to 6 again if this is true.

Exporting as a ringtone won't work for me. I master the exported file after the export using other pro software and won't be happy trying that on a tiny ringtone file.

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léonie

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Mar 11, 2015 2:37 AM in response to CaptPostMod

I'm wondering if I should go back to 6 again if this is true.

why not keep both versions installed?

I never uninstalled version 6.0,5, when I upgraded to GB 10. Version 6.0.5 has quite a few features, that are no longer supported in GB 10 - I frequently need the sound Effect instrument to create custom Sampler instruments, and occasionally I need to create podcasts. It is much easier to create a Movie Sound Track in GarageBand 11, and the vocal transformer is easier to use.

So I keep both versions installed and frequently start a project in GarageBAnd 6.0.5, then upgrade it to GB 10 and add the Drummer track and rpeggiatr tracks, if I need them.

Both versions are working well side-by-side. apple even changed the icon for GB10, so we can tell them apart them in the Dock:

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CaptPostMod Author

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Mar 11, 2015 6:15 AM in response to léonie

My workflow's to start in GarageBand for iOS. Then I export to GarageBand for Mac after I have the basic parts and pieces recorded and replace the built in drum machine, amp sims, and virtual instruments with pro plug-ins I prefer (just transferring over the clean wav/midi files I recorded on iOS). Finally I export with no effects/eq on the master bus as an aif file and then import that into some other pro software I use for final mastering. It's a great system. Unfortunately, it doesn't really allow much room for using 6 and 10 both because GarageBand for iOS, once updated, only exports to 10. I kept from updating it for more than a year, but finally gave in. And the iPad doesn't let me keep both like the Mac does.

Mostly 10's working fine for me now. Except this reverb issue. Now that I'm thinking back, I think 6 did this some. But not nearly to the extent that 10's doing it. One track exported from 10 wound up with 9 full seconds of silence stuck on the end! I might just need to cut some reverb out of the end of tracks and fiddle with things to figure out a way to get it to calm down with all that.

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