Importing Garage Band recorded tracks onto Logic Pro 9 projects...

Hi, What I am wondering is, can I use the Garage Band on my Mac Air to record tracks and then import them onto Logic Pro 9 projects that I am currently working on? I have a MacAir which I like for the the portability factor, and then do Logic Pro 9 on my iMac at home. Will this work for recording tracks of real instruments such as bass guitars or acoustic ones via an UBS interface and my MacAir? And then be able to import them onto Logic Pro 9... Im wondering if there will be a big sacrifice of quality or incompatibility issues?

Yes, I use it over WiFi and while it may not be as fast as manual copying via an external disk or thumbdrive (depending on the speed of your WiFi and the size of the fles involved), it can be a lot more convenient... and it is very simple to achieve.
To answer your other question
There are two types of compression.. Lossless and lossy....
If you simply zip up your projects before sending you won't lose any quality.. as doing so doesn't affect the quality of any samples.. (ie this would be lossless compression)

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