KVR Audio

p51superace05 · Post by **p51superace05** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:15 am

Hey, I have a project recorded in GarageBand, and I want to convert everything so I can work with it in Cubase. Is there any way to do this without exporting every individual track from Garage Band?

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:17 am

Probably not... Maybe you can save the audio parts as WAV, and save the rest as a Midi file.

Good luck!

toxicoh · Post by **toxicoh** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:27 am

COOkie's right. I don't even think you can do the export midi file in Garageband. Why Cubase?

toxicoh · Post by **toxicoh** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:28 am

p51superace05 · Post by **p51superace05** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:10 pm

The project in question is a live recording of a gig that my band did a few days ago. I was using my windows laptop to run VSTs for the performance, so we recorded the show on the guitarist's iBook, which only has garage band. We have a couple other projects on there as well, because we have access to some good mac recording gear. However, I want to do production work on my machine, because I know it better and have more plugins to work with.

If there isn't any other way, I'm just gonna have to get him to export individual tracks for me.

Wouldn't life be easier if there was a way to do batch exporting???

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:44 pm

Seriously,what's the problem ?
You have folder on the Mac with the audio files,right ?
Transfer that one to the PC. Open an empty Cubase project. Import Audio Files, locate the folder, CTRL-A (select all), Cubase asks you if you wan't all files on the same Audio track or if you want separate audio tracks for each file, select separate. Done!!!!!

I just did it. It took me less time than typing this post. What is the problem ?

p51superace05 · Post by **p51superace05** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:11 pm

The problem is that I don't have the computer with Garageband, and didn't know that it has all the audio files tucked away neatly in a folder. (in a format that Cubase can read while running in XP) I'll see if I can get that folder from him. Thanks!

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:22 pm

I have admittedly never used GarageBand but every host so far i've used (quite a few) lets you specify a folder where it should save the projects audio files.
And i'm 99 % certain that they're AIFF files (Mac audio file standard) which Cubase reads, so no problem there either.

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Mon May 01, 2006 6:00 pm

OK, so it seems GrageBand is a bit unorthodox in the file department.It saves everything in one huge file.
But if you locate that file and right-click on it and choose "Show Package Contents" then go into the media folder all AIFF files should be there.

p51superace05 · Post by **p51superace05** » Mon May 01, 2006 6:04 pm

Ah, ok. That makes more sense. Thanks so much for you help.

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Mon May 01, 2006 6:06 pm

Note that this has to be done on the Mac. The PC would'nt know what to do with a GarageBand file.

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