[MacDV] Soundtrack and Garageband

[Ryan Sutter]

FYI, the file exported from GarageBand to iTunes is not an MP3, it's
an AIFF.  It's not compressed or in any way degraded in sound quality.
 You can use those files in Soundtrack just fine.

Ryan

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:37:25 -0400, James Asherman <jimash at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, October 7, 2004, at 11:32  AM, Lene Wangmo wrote:
> 
> > I wrote a song in Garageband, then wanted to import it into
> > Soundtrack to create a music video (slide show) to sync to it,
> > but couldn't figure out how to copy my Garageband stuff and
> > export it into Soundtrack.  Soundtrack has "Apple loops" but they
> > don't have the same names as the Apple loops in Garageband.
> >
> > Do I have to create the MP3 (Garageband easily creates for iTunes),
> > which compresses the sound  (I don't want to do that, do I?) to
> > export Garageband creations into Soundtrack?
> 
> Looks like it. No aiff from Garage and no aiff import to soundtrack.
> 
> >  Or do I  have to
> > start all over in  Soundtrack, hunting through the loops in Sountrack
> > to try to find the loops that match Garageband sounds?
> 
> This might be a good bet
> >  I know this
> > must be easy, but I'm such a flaming newbie, I can't figure it out,
> > even
> > though I've searched the "help" files.
> 
> You can press the button marked "setup" in the soundtrack browser and
> presumably point it at garageband loops.
> 
> >
> > If it's possible to copy/paste (get my Garageband song into
> > Soundtrack),
> > is there someone here on our list who can give this newbie
> > the  one, two, three (etc.) steps on how to do it? I love creating in
> > Garageband because it's really easy and fun to use compared to
> > creating in Soundtrack.  (I want to add a vocal track, too.)
> 
> I couldn't paste from one to the other . You could try loading a
> garageband project (just the project file) into soundtrack (after
> redirecting the loop browser)but i doubt it.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Wangmo
> >
> >
> There may be some utility to the soundtrack loop utility here.
> Maybe you could save each individual track as a new loop and load them
> simply one by one?
> J
> 
> 
> 
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