I have 3 uke tracks I recorded on my iPad in GarageBand using my irig acoustic it I don't see any mastering or rendering features. Nor do I see any track export settings, what do I do now?
I suspect that the mixing and mastering are pretty obvious. If not, Google "garageband mixing and mastering" and you'll find lots of pages about it.
The part you're probably having trouble with is how to get the mixed & mastered song out of GarageBand as a finished stereo file. To do that, select "Export Song to Disk" from the Share menu.
(https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=24268.0;attach=87923)
If you just want an mp3 file, leave "Compress" checked and select the MP3 Encoder and whatever quality you want.
(https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=24268.0;attach=87925)
If you want a high-quality file to import into the BR or a DAW, uncheck "Compress" and select AIFF, which is Apple's equivalent of WAV. Most, if not all, BRs can import AIFF files directly.
I just knew the all-knowing 64 was going to swoop into this thread and save the day.
Kudos.
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Thanks 64 but that looks like the desktop version to me. I don't have any of the choices in the top bar. I'm attaching a screen shot of what I see on my iPad.
Thanks
To export to AIFF if you're on the iPad, make sure the iPad is attached to your computer and you also have iTunes installed on the computer.
Next, go back to Garageband and tap My Songs at the upper left, and then in the next screen tap on Select. Select the Garageband song, and then tap the Share button on the upper left, and choose iTunes. From the Choose Format dialog, choose iTunes again, and then you'll see Audio Quality - choose Uncompressed (AIFF), and then tap on Share in the upper right.
The iPad will then export an AIFF to iTunes. It gets a little trickier here: Click on Apps in iTunes, and then scroll down to the File Sharing section and select Garageband. You should see the AIFF you exported on the right panel. Just click and drag this file onto your desktop, and you should be able to import it into the BR-80 or your other recorders, or Audacity.
Here's a little visual demo of the iPad part of the export to AIFF workflow:
(https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=24268.0;attach=88534)
Thanks Cuthbert, that slide show is great. It doesn't look that difficult but I sure do hate iTunes. I will give all that a go later tonight.
Rock on!
Quote from: cuthbert on November 30, 2015, 12:22:18 PMHere's a little visual demo of the iPad part of the export to AIFF workflow:
Great idea using an animated gif to demonstrate the steps. %)!
i haven't had a chance to hook up to iTunes yet but I'm wondering what I'll be exporting, a mix of the song at the current settings or individual tracks. As I was recoding on GarageBand I noticed it seemed to record dry, I could change the amp setting after I recorded it. So if I can export individual tracks would they be dry or with the effect? I can't decide if I'm really interested in doing it all on the pad or just keep on keeping on as I've been, using it more as an instrument (or with this irig pickup).
I'm attaching a screen shot of this Auria multitracker app that looks pretty darn cool.
Rock on.
Quote from: Hook on November 30, 2015, 08:23:03 PM...I'm wondering what I'll be exporting, a mix of the song at the current settings or individual tracks.
You'd be exporting a mix of all unmuted tracks with their current settings. You could export one track at a time by muting all the others, if that's what you're looking to do.
Ah. Hi Hook. I know what you mean. Here is what I do. I send the garageband song to the audio mastering app ( which is very good indeed) Master it then record it on the BR80 using line in straight from audio mastering app, master it on BR80 using no mastering effect. I send the song from garageband to AM using open in and select a uncompressed AIIF file. I don't convert the file once in AM. I just tinker around till it sounds reasonable, then throw it through the BR. I then transfer to the PC, have a look in audacity, most of the time the i don't need to adjust anything. I then convert to mp3 so I can play the song in my car using a usb stick or I can burn a cd and leave it as a wav file
You can't use Garageband as an output from AM even using audiobus ( another great app) and you can't use garageband as an input, full stop. I don't know anything about I tunes, I don't have have an account and probably wouldn't be able to figure it out if I did, so I go the long way about it, but that's fine with me.
There mus be an easier way. But that audio mastering is very good and at the moment it is reduced in price. It still is https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/audio-mastering/id640515541?mt=8 as is audioshare which may or may not work I haven't used it so I don't know.
Quote from: chip on December 01, 2015, 08:23:29 AMMaster it then record it on the BR80 using line in straight from audio mastering app...
I wouldn't recommend doing that for this reason: unless you're recording and playing back uncompressed (lossless) audio on both the iPad and the BR-80, you're going to lose more musical information as part of the lossy audio compression of "on the fly" recording methods that are used, as well as running through analog to digital and digital to analog conversions many times over.
I know that all BR models use a lossy audio compression algorithm in their recording technology - at least in multitrack mode, as in the BR-80.
So as a rule, you're better off digitizing your audio once, and then keeping it in the digital realm for the remainder of the process. To keep from losing further audio information, always export to a lossless audio format such as uncompressed AIFF or WAV before doing further work in another recorder or tool.