How to Double the Audio Recording Time in Garageband from 90 to 180 minutes

If you are just using your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch as a Garageband digital sound recorder and you have come up against the dreaded 90 minute maximum recording time, here's a really simple fix.

The 90 minute limit is due to the maximum number of bars a song can have in Garageband.  For example you will get around 90 mins at 120 BPM.

If you need to double the recording time, then you can simply half the BPM to 60 BPM.  Suddenly you have 180 minutes of recording time.  Of course If you start adding other loops etc its gonna so a little ENO.

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Garageband 2 iOS7 and 10 prevent Mac to iPad.. Conversion But Here's a fixed1t work around ;-)

Note: 

iPad... =  iPad 2, 3, or 4, iPhone 4(s) - 5(s), iPad Touch 4th/5th Gen 

GB = Garageband

Please read my previous blogs about iOS7 and GB 2 and GB 10, I was quite enthusiastic about the potential for iCloud sharing between platforms.  I was excited a little too soon.

fixed1t Sum-up of the Garageband Song Sharing Issues

Apple has seriously modified the song/project code for GB 10, under Mavericks which totally blocks Mac GB to iPad...  Song transfer.

Here are the new game play rules as I see them if you want to collaborate with other iPad...  Mac Musicians.

Rule 1) Any song opened in Free Mac GB 10 currently refuses to load or open on any iPad...  ACTION -  Jump to Rule X

Rule 2) fixed1t Converters work brilliantly on any GB 11 song archive :-)

• They run great with 10.5 Leopard to 10.9 Mavericks OS :-)
• When transferred to GB 1 for iOS they can happily ping-pong back from Mac GB 11 to and iPad...  :-)
• When transferred to iOS 7 GB 2 they can no longer be opened again with GB 11 :-(

Rule 3) Once the GB 11 song file is fixed1t converted to iOS7 GB 2 it can be shared back and forth with other other iCloud iPad... devices :-)

Rule 4) An iOS7 GB 2 song file can be download from the iCloud using free GB 10 :-)

Rule 5) Once the song is downloaded to the Mac GB 10, we must Jump to Rule 1

Rule X) iPad... sharing End Of The Line - the Song can only be worked on by users with Mac GB 10 :-)

This is a real pain for an increasing number of users who were really enjoying sending files back and forth between Macs and their iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

Recommendation To fixed1t Users

What I an recommending to my users is they keep their install of GB 11 an and compress it and delete the application(see the blog entry), They then install NewGarageband.  Once its installed and has the name NewGarageband you can uncompress the Garageband 11 and have both available.  I made dock entries for each.

I am also recommending that they retrieve a backup of Garageband 1 on an iPad...  so they and their friends can share between the Macs and their iPad...  If they get to the stage that it is only iPad... sharing i.e. near the completion of the song, then they can convert it and load it into Garageband 2 on iOS7 which means they should be able to share the files between iPad...  

When they have finished and are ready to Master, they can (if they want) open it on Garageband 10 on the Mac and finish it there.

Personally, I'll be going back to Garageband 11 and Garageband 1

I'll do a quick blog if I sort out the way forward. 

To use or test the converter, and get your songs onto the iPad you will need Garageband 11 and either Garageband 1 or Garageband 2, but again once its on Garageband 2 it won't go back to Garageband 11 for the time being.

So there are my fixed1t workarounds, Apple have just made it a darn sight more complicated.  At least with the fixed1t converters the conversion is so seamless and quite that it reduces some of the pain.

But as they say, no pain no pleasure.  Personally I'll stick with the pleasure. 

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Release of fixed1t Garageband Mac to iPad, iPhone and iPod Converter

I am pleased to announce the release of a new addition to the fixed1t range of Garageband support applications.  Since the release of my first Garageband to iPad 2 converter I have had increasing requests from users to develop the software to support other devices.

I had initially thought of continuing to update the original version and increase the cost (its ridiculously low really), but another user said they wouldn't want to use the converter on an iPod or iPhone and would prefer to stick with the iPad only version so why don't I have two?

I have taken this on board and am now releasing the:

fixed1t Garageband Mac to iPad, iPhone and iPod Converter

The range of devices supported is shown in this screen snapshot of the converter:

You can request a trial copy on the fixed1t website at:

http://www.fixed1t.co.uk/fixed1t_GB_Mac2iPad_iPhone_iPod_Conv.htm

I will be doing a new video for the converter which will be on youtube shortly but the two existing videos present the ease of use, speed and flexibility of the fixed1t converters.

Here is the tutorial video for the Garageband to iPad converter:

Here is a video of a converted Mac Garageband song file running on a 4th Generation iPod Touch:

For those of you not familiar with how easy it is to collaborate with others between the Mac and an iPad here is a simple video:
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You can purchase the fixed1t Garageband Mac to iPad, iPhone and iPod Converter for just $25 USD using the PayPal button below.

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