Opening Garage Band file in other applications

I am a film director whose scorer composed the soundtrack in Garage Band 3. I cannot open it in GB 2.0.2? Do I need to pay for an update or can I open it in Final Cut Pro or Soundtrack Pro? I want to be able to manipulate some of the instrumentation tracks so I am wondering if there is another way to open the files (besides GB 3) so that all the individual tracks are sequenced as originally composed.

Depends. If the tracks were made using Software Instruments, you must use GarageBand. Logic may be able to open this file.
If the tracks were made using Real Instruments, you can right-click on the file, "Show Package Contents" and copy the files from the Media folder. You can then drop these files into FinalCut.
However, really, $79 to upgrade to GarageBand 4 is not a bad investment for your movie. Especially seeing that you can import the video to get your edits just right.

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Opening Garage Band File

I imported speech audio from my digital recorder. Now, after saving the file, I can't open it. How do I open the file? My goal is to simply transfer audio files from either my digital recorder or a cassette tape to my computer and then to burn the files on a CD. I want to be able to send a CD to someone with either a Mac or a PC.

I should have explained... Yes, I know that all you have to do is "double" click on a file to open it. However, when I double click on the Garage Band file, Garage Band does launch, but the file is not there. There is nothing in the timeline area to play or review. The Garage Band application is simply empty as though you were going to start a new project.
Then in regards to sending a recording to a PC owner on a CD, I would think there would be an option to export the audio file as a .wave file.
Thanks for the answer, I will continue my search for what to do. Maybe when the audio was done being imported, there was a way to save it that wasn't obvious.

Opening Garage Band files in Logic Express

I'm a school music teacher and have just started using Logic Express 7 to open kids' Garage Band files for tidying up and polishing.(Still a beginner with logic I'm afraid!) Have just purchased Logic Express 8 update, but haven't installed it because I heard that it won't open Garage Band 3 files. Is this true? If so, is it possible to have both 7 and 8 running independently on the computer? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The original release of LE8 had a bug which required a workaround to open GB files. The subsequent 8.0.1 update fixed that. After you install LE8, go to Software Update and install the 8.0.1 update and you will be fine.

Use garage band sounds in other applications?

I've never had any need to use Garage Band, but have heard that the sounds are good... is there a way to use Garage Band sounds with a DAW, specifically, Digital Performer?
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What do you men with sounds?
Apple Loops
Apple Loops are just aiff file with additional metadata. You can even play them in iTunes. However I heard that DP can utilize the Tempo Match and Key Match feature.
Plugins
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Drummer
The drummer is nothing other than a sophisticated EXS24 Sampler (a Logic Plugin), therfore no support in DP. If you have a lot of time on your hand, you can access the individual audio samples and build your own sampler that can be used in DP.
Settings
All the other sound settings are just settings files that are only compatible inside the Apple ecosystem of audio apps (GarageBand, Logic, MainStage)
This ecosystem comes in handy when moving between those apps. Now you can create sounds and settings in Logic and use them in GarageBand or MainStage. Here is screenshot from my new GarageBand book "GarageBand X - How it Works" that illustrates that ecosystem
Hope that helps
Edgar Rothermich
http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/
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Lost unsaved Garage Band File - PLEASE HELP

Lost unsaved Garage Band File - PLEASE HELP
I had an audio file made on Garage Band but it was unsaved. I left my computer on at night and for some reason this morning my computer had seemed tor restart. I opened the garage band file but nothing came up.
Is there any way I can recover this 'unsaved file'? It must be stored in cache somewhere.
Someone please advise.
Thanks.

I would just like to say Thanks to HangTime up there. This trick worked 100% ... I had recorded 8 or 9 rather long tracks; for an unexpected reason (first time I've ever seen the "gray screen of death") the popup window came up and in several languages told me I needed to restart the computer; did what it told me to, begrudingly. Came back online, opened the GB file, nothing was there. Yet, when I checked package contents for the file (which I didn't even know existed, compartmentalized "Media", until after reading this), there were the tracks! I owe you both for getting this up and running... album creds just may be in line. ~Matt

Need to rescue Garage Band Files with Data Rescue II - what kind of files?

Hi all -
After a particularly gruesome computer crash, I am trying to reconstruct my lost files using Data Rescue II..... This program goes into the damaged hard drive and downloads all intact files it can find, but it is NOT able to label everything correctly. All it can do is divide things into folders - Audio files, document files, images, mail, misc., and movies. And within these folders are other folders - for instance, in the "Audio" rescued folder, there are hundreds of AIFF files, AIFF1 files, AIFF2, MP3, WAV, m4a, and m4p files.
My question is: can someone please tell me what the heck a Garage Band project file is? That would save me a lot of time in digging through all this material trying to find one....
(Don't get me wrong... I'm grateful to have stuff to dig through! I just hope my Garage Band files are intact and recoverable.)
Has anyone had success saving Garage Band files with Data Rescue II?
Thanks in advance.

Aaaagh!
I spoke too soon. Yes,I did indeed find the file that contained all the files I needed to retrieve (using Disk Rescue II). When my 6-hour download of the 78 GB folder finished, I check the files again, and they weren't located in the orphaned section, but in the Hard Drive section under the normal directory, in a folder called .Trashes - within that there was another folder called "501", which contained all the Garageband files I needed to retrieve. However, when I tried to open the downloaded "rescued" files, they were inside a folder called "Macintosh HD", which could not be opened, and I got a message that said "Could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges." Not only that, but even after 6 hours of (apparently) downloading the 78 GB folder, my hard drive, which had close to 83 GB of free space, said STILL had almost that same amount.
So did it download anything or not? What was it doing all those 6 hours? I have a file that I can't open, but apparently it's going to be empty anyway.
Here's the full story, for anyone with the patience to listen and offer advice. It looks like now I'm looking for a way to 1) get the permissions to open the .trashes file so that I can download everything, or 2) figure out a way to get Disk Rescue II to open the files and download them regardless of the permissions.
Full Story -
I am pretty sure that my computer crash was caused by working with the newest version of Garageband 08. Ever since buying it and loading it, my computer has been acting funny whenever I use the Garage Band program - I could only record about one in three attempts since the computer kept freezing as soon as I finished recording a line. I would have to use force restart to get going again.
The day the computer crashed, I was working on a Garage Band project, which kept crashing, and I was also using Finale, Microsoft Word, and iTunes -- all of which are my normal procedure and I'd never had any problems with anything before loading the new Garage Band 08. (See my posts on other discussion topics for more details). After the last freeze, the computer crashed totally and could not be restarted - it would get to the gray screen with the spinning gear and just sit there while the fans ramped up to overload.
I used Disk Warrior to rescue whatever files I could onto an external hard drive, and I started to download all the Garage Band files. However, the "estimated time to completion" said over 6 hours , so I stopped the download after a minute or so and went on to rescue all the other files that were smaller in size and easier to download - I figured I'd set Disk Warrior to download the whole 78 GB set of Garage Band files overnight while I slept. But....when I went back to begin the download again, I noticed that the directory of Garage Band files went only to the letter "C" instead of all the way to "Z" like my original files had done during that earlier attempt to download. I am assuming that somehow, the directory for the files I download before aborting the attempt (A-C) got exchanged with the directories of the original version (A-Z), but the original directory was no where to be found.
I decided to try an archive install in the hopes that I could just restart my computer and get the files out by hand. The archive install went fine, and the computer started up fine and got to the log-in screen, which had changed. I now had two blanks - one for user name and one for password, instead of the choices of names. I tried all my user names and passwords, and asked my wife for her names and passcodes, but nothing worked. The computer had apparently re-set all its permissions and User accounts. I tried using Disk Utility to reset the password in its opening screens, but instead of getting several User options, the only one it allowed me to attempt was "System Administrator (root)", and even that wouldn't let me in to change any passwords.
That's when I downloaded Data Rescue II, which does seem to do a good job of locating lost files. However, since I didn't have permissions to open the computer the last time, I am still apparently facing the same thing when I try to access files copies OFF the computer.
So I'm not out of the woods yet. I can see the files on the Data Rescue screen, but I don't know whether they have permissions tied to them or not, and if they do, whether the system would let me since I don't know what the passwords and user names have defaulted back to.
Any advice? Please?

Timing off with Garage Band file

I created a song in Garage Band, and opened it in Logic.
The Logic metronome is off sync with the Garage Band file, even though the tempo is correct.
Does anyone know why?
Thanks,
Avi

That's not the problem. The song is at 126 bpm throughout.
I did a quick test with another Garage Band beat, and everything was OK. I have no idea why the metronome would be off with the other tune I created in Garage Band. Very annoying.

Iweb vs garage band file size

I posted this in iweb and thought maybe that was the wrong place. I opened garage band...found a simple piano loop...added it to timeline thing...made it loop for about 30 seconds by draging it. I saved it as the small option for sharing and it ends up around 9 megs. How can an itunes song be 2-3 and a simple 30 second loop 9? How can I make it smaller for iweb and how do I export or put it on my page properly? Mainly how to make it smaller??? I have never used garage band befor, am I missing a step?
Thanks and sorry for the double post!!!

I asume you used GB3's Share > Send Song to iTunes. Then, under iTunes, if you're using AIFF format (as I do), it's going to be bigger than an MP3 or AAFC file. Forgive me if this is a "duh," but if you go into Preferences > Advanced and change AIFF to MP3 or AAC encoding, you can then Command-click to convert the track into a dupe with the smaller format.
Those formats are pretty universal. I've streamed as well as put them in my Public iDisk folder in my old Homepage site. And while I haven't gotten to my iWeb version...
You might want to check out, in GB3, the feature under File > Save As > Compact Project. There you can select 64, 128 or 192 kbps AAC. You may/not need to also select Archive in the same screen. I haven't used this yet or read about it - someone else would know better - but it seems to me that it's (not a compression tool but) a streaming buffer optimizer.
Hope this helps. I'll want to visit back here myself, soon as I get cranking on my own stuff.

Opening a .band file in new garageband

Hello!
I wonder if anyone could help me. I have a new MacBook Pro. I used to have a PowerBook G4 (2005) and have garageband projects I was working on when my computer suddenly wouldn't start anymore. I have all the .band files but they won't open with Garageband on my new mac. (The dialogue box says it can't be opened as it might not be in the right format.) I haven't used garageband on the mac before and indeed the icons for the example files look different to the icons for my old files.
Please help! If there's any way to open the file or get the music from within or even is it possible to download an old version of garageband? The music projects I have are recordings of children with disabilities I've promised to put on CD for them so I would really like to get to them if at all possible!
Thanks for your time!

Usually the GarageBand Project files are upward compatible but not the other way around. Opening your .band files on a newer computer (=newer GarageBand version ?) shouldn't be the problem.
In case something went wrong and your files are corrupted, you still can try to open them in the Finder. Any audio recordings are stored inside the .band file which is actually a special folder (called Package File).
Ctrl+click on the .band file to get the Shortcut Menu. It should have the command "Show Package Content". Select this and the .band file opens its content. You should see a Media folder that contains all the recordings and loops from that Project.
Hope that helpsEdgar Rothermich
http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/
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When I open Garage Band '09 it says" No Apple Loops found; There are no Apple Loops installed on your System. Please reinstall the Apple Loop Package".

I have garage band '09 on my mac. When I open garage band a little notice pops up saying "No Apple Loops found; There are no Apple Loops installed on your System. Please reinstall the Apple Loop Package" I have followed the instructions on the apple web page and it didn't work. I looked in all of the locations on my mac and all of the folders that should contain apple loops are empty. Is there a way I can redownload the apple loops to my mac without buying garage band '11 or one of the jam packs????????????????

swimmerT wrote:
I have followed the instructions on the apple web page and it didn't work.
without knowing what you did, it's impossible to guess what might be wrong
swimmerT wrote:
Is there a way I can redownload the apple loops to my mac
no
swimmerT wrote:
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I use pdf files created from CamScanner and shared from DropBox. In DropBox, many times (over 50%) while opening the PDF the process freezes and the error message is Adobe Reader is not responding. If you close the program, and re-open the file, it opens fine. I have saved these files to my computer and the same issue occurs. The files are 100-500kb, so I do not think size is the issue. I have reinstalled Reader (11.1.10) and there is no improvement.

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I have an iMac late 2013 27inch
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