matheo_s
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Q: How to record a session on GB for OS X El Capitan and open it on iOS device to work on the road through iCloud

I plugged my guitar on my iMac (OS X El Capitan), through an audio interface, I've recorded a few guitars on GarageBand... uploaded it to iCloud, downloaded it into my iPad (through iCloud), and it says that that file was created on an OS X device and can't be readed on an iOS device... Is the same developer and the same enterprise, also the same app... should be exportable from one device to another, don't you think?

GarageBand 10, iOS 9.3.4

Posted on Aug 25, 2016 11:19 AM

by Edgar,Solvedanswer
Edgar Edgar
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A:

Usually, apps are always "upward" compatible.

That applies to updated version numbers (GarageBand 6 vs. GarageBand 10) and also to different versions of the same app, "GarageBand for iOS" and "GarageBand for macOS". It is just based on the pure fact of feature set. If a light version doesn't have a feature that the bigger version has, then it wouldn't know what to do with that Project.

 

Here is a chart

COmpatibility.png

 

Hope that helps

 

Edgar Rothermich - LogicProGEM.com

(Author of the "Graphically Enhanced Manuals")

http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/

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Posted on Aug 26, 2016 9:59 AM

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Q: How to record a session on GB for OS X El Capitan and open it on iOS device to work on the road through iCloud

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  • by Edgar,Solvedanswer

    Edgar Edgar Aug 26, 2016 9:59 AM in response to matheo_s
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    Aug 26, 2016 9:59 AM in response to matheo_s

    Usually, apps are always "upward" compatible.

    That applies to updated version numbers (GarageBand 6 vs. GarageBand 10) and also to different versions of the same app, "GarageBand for iOS" and "GarageBand for macOS". It is just based on the pure fact of feature set. If a light version doesn't have a feature that the bigger version has, then it wouldn't know what to do with that Project.

     

    Here is a chart

    COmpatibility.png

     

    Hope that helps

     

    Edgar Rothermich - LogicProGEM.com

    (Author of the "Graphically Enhanced Manuals")

    http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/

    'I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.'

  • by matheo_s,

    matheo_s matheo_s Aug 26, 2016 9:59 AM in response to Edgar
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    Aug 26, 2016 9:59 AM in response to Edgar

    according to the chart, the correct path is to create something on the iPad to finish it on the iMac? not in the other direction...

  • by Edgar,

    Edgar Edgar Aug 26, 2016 10:03 AM in response to matheo_s
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    Aug 26, 2016 10:03 AM in response to matheo_s

    Exactly, just follow the red arrows that show a file created in what app can be opens in what app.

     

    I remember there was a hack to open a GarageBand macOS file in GarageBand iOS, but it involved major "surgery".