1. Garageband How To Use

Oosition Projects for iPad dition origt e n sic oan Garageband Projects for iPad Student Assignment #3 - Smart Drums Aim: To be able to use ‘smart drummer’ with variations, and record a new melody. You need: iPad with Garageband App Task A: Record an 8 bar drum pattern using the smart drummer, with a musical change at the fifth bar. Feb 14, 2016 I am using the latest version (2.1) of GarageBand for iPad and would like to be able to share my projects with other members of my band, preferably without having to use a PC/Mac, as a sort of audio sketchbook for song ideas. One idea would be to share it to iCloud Drive, when you do this it will offer on option to save the project file there. Then go into the iCloud Drive and share the project there via email. If it's especially large, iOS should offer the ability to send it via MailDrop. Oct 15, 2019  In GB, go to the 'My Songs' section, select the project you want and hold it so it starts 'wiggling', then use the share option and select iTunes, then choose the Project format. Once it's done, connect your iPad to your Mac/PC with the USB cable, and launch iTunes.

*I could use a Mac or PC to copy the .band file from iCloud to Dropbox/Google Drive to share it and then the other users would need to copy it to their iCloud drive (using a Mac or PC) and import it into GarageBand on their iPad. But surely there is a simpler way that does not involve using a computer?

No, there isn't. Without the detour to a computer you cannot exchange GarageBand projects between iPads, unless you all were using the same AppleID and iCloud.

You can only send audio files back and forth, so one of you would have to collect the separate tracks and mix them.

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Hey all,

I'm currently using GB on my iPadPro, and would like to collaborate with another fellow musician. I'm having a hard time being able to send him a GB project. It says online you can share it to iTunes, then share it from there, however I don't have a computer, I have an iPad Pro....
I have tried email, Dropbox, etc, and it wants to mix the project down to an MP4 before sending. Not what I want....
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

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Garageband How To Use

• edited September 2016

  one idea would be to share it to iCloud Drive, when you do this it will offer on option to save the project file there. Then go into the iCloud Drive and share the project there via email.

  If it's especially large, iOS should offer the ability to send it via MailDrop

  Additionally you could share it via 'open in', then choose Google Drive...when you do this It also presents the option to send the project file.

• edited September 2016

  .> @sirdavidabraham said:

  one idea would be to share it to iCloud Drive, when you do this it will offer on option to save the project file there. Then go into the iCloud Drive and share the project there via email.

  If it's especially large, iOS should offer the ability to send it via MailDrop

  Additionally you could share it via 'open in', then choose Google Drive...when you do this It also presents the option to send the project file.

  I have tried sending it via email from the iCloud Drive, but it shows up as 0 bytes....also tried to send it to google drive from iCloud, but it says it's uploading, but never does, just hangs up...>

• @Bängers said:
  I have tried sending it via email from the iCloud Drive, but it shows up as 0 bytes....also tried to send it to google drive from iCloud, but it says it's uploading, but never does, just hangs up...>

  What apps do you have available for Open In...?

• @telecharge said:

  @Bängers said:
  I have tried sending it via email from the iCloud Drive, but it shows up as 0 bytes....also tried to send it to google drive from iCloud, but it says it's uploading, but never does, just hangs up...>

  What apps do you have available for Open In...?

  From GB....Notes,Google Drive, Message, and Messanger....tried google drive, and it just hangs there saying 'uploading'....everything else, it wants to mix down.
  From iCloud no open in options

• edited September 2016

  Well I just managed it using ifiles2

  But it was a hell of a hassle.

• @Bängers said:
  From GB....Notes,Google Drive, Message, and Messanger....tried google drive, and it just hangs there saying 'uploading'....everything else, it wants to mix down.
  From iCloud no open in options

  Unfortunately, your options are pretty limited. Have you tried Apple support? They should be able to help with iCloud/upload issues.

  Otherwise, you're looking at a 3rd party solution like what @BiancaNeve is describing.

• @BiancaNeve said:
  Well I just managed it using ifiles2

  But it was a hell of a hassle.

  Please explain how??

• @telecharge said:

  @Bängers said:
  From GB....Notes,Google Drive, Message, and Messanger....tried google drive, and it just hangs there saying 'uploading'....everything else, it wants to mix down.
  From iCloud no open in options

  Unfortunately, your options are pretty limited. Have you tried Apple support? They should be able to help with iCloud/upload issues.

  Otherwise, you're looking at a 3rd party solution like what @BiancaNeve is describing.

  Apple support said to use iTunes....hate to think if you spend $1000 on the iPadPro, I now have to go buy a laptop to transfer files....

• @BiancaNeve said:
  Well I just managed it using ifiles2

  But it was a hell of a hassle.

  How does ifiles2 work

• edited September 2016

  Actually forget it. My method worked on iPad Air 2. But the transfer from iCloud on iPad Pro seems to get stuck.

  1st download the app

  iFiles 2 - File Manager, Cloud Storage, PDF Reader by Imagam.com
  https://appsto.re/gb/tBD2bb.i

  Add iCloud Drive as a service

  Open Gagageband App
  Press select
  Select a track
  Press the share button
  Press iCloud Drive
  Select Project

  Select the ifiles folder in iCloud Drive

  Open the ifiles app
  Press the iCloud button. (you should see a folder called whatever you named your song)
  Click on this and press download select local files

  Once the transfer has completed you can zip it and email it or upload to Dropbox one drive etc

• @BiancaNeve said

  Once the transfer has completed you can zip it and email it or upload to Dropbox one drive etc

  Yes...........
  but how to share it then with others?

  By the way: it is also possible to send a zipped .band file to Dropbox via the free iZip app, without using iCloud Drive. I just did it. But I have no good ideas about sharing it with others. As I understand it iCloud Drive is only about sharing with your own devices. I could send the link of the zipped .band Dropbox file to others, but I can't find a way for them to import the zipped .band file into their GB (without the use of a PC).

• They need to unzip the .band file and save it to their own iCloud Drive. Then in GB they can just press plus then import from iCloud

• Good info here for escaping the walled garden. Thank you @BiancaNeve and @Marcel

• @Marcel said:

  @BiancaNeve said

  Once the transfer has completed you can zip it and email it or upload to Dropbox one drive etc

  Yes...........
  but how to share it then with others?

  By the way: it is also possible to send a zipped .band file to Dropbox via the free iZip app, without using iCloud Drive. I just did it. But I have no good ideas about sharing it with others. As I understand it iCloud Drive is only about sharing with your own devices. I could send the link of the zipped .band Dropbox file to others, but I can't find a way for them to import the zipped .band file into their GB (without the use of a PC).

  @BiancaNeve said:
  They need to unzip the .band file and save it to their own iCloud Drive. Then in GB they can just press plus then import from iCloud

  Thank you guys for the input!!! I'm going to try it with izip cause it seems like the easiest way... I'll keep you posted if it works....

• I just tried Izip free on a very simple band file, but it wouldn't zip it because it was too big. But the process of getting it into izip was very simple so I may buy the full version.

• edited September 2016

  @BiancaNeve said:
  I just tried Izip free on a very simple band file, but it wouldn't zip it because it was too big. But the process of getting it into izip was very simple so I may buy the full version.

  If I remember it correctly: you have to zip the .band map. I first tried to zip all the files within that map, that didn't work, then I tried zipping the map itself, that worked. If it seems you can't select the map then press the file/map above it, then you can select the map.