∞ GarageBand for Mac doesn't support GarageBand for iPad… yet

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One of the things I was really looking forward to when GarageBand for iPad was released was sharing my songs with the Mac version of the app.

[ad#Google Adsense 300x250 in story]I tried doing this tonight, but it didn’t work out so well. I was able to export the project on the iPad and save it to my computer, but I got the following error message when I tried to open it.

This song requires a newer version of GarageBand. Please update to the latest version of GarageBand before opening this song.

Unfortunately, I am using the latest version of GarageBand. I think Apple will release an update sometime soon to fix the problem.

I don’t recall seeing that in any of the reviews I read on the iPad or GarageBand today.


  • Jade

    Good to hear. I thought There was something wrong on my end. Odd that no reviewers bothered to test this…

  • Antonio

    BAAAMM! Have the same problem just now, browsing through the net to find an answer with no luck!
    I hope Apple are fixin’ this update very soon.

    An other thing that stroked me odd was the restriction of 10 sections.
    I was using 8bars sections and couldn’t add more after the 10th.
    A way around this is to use larger sections like 20 bars or so.

  • Swartzfeger

    No support for anything other than 4/4. As much as I wanna love GB for iPad, it’s nothing more than a really appealing time sink for me without it. I can’t imagine meter support would be that difficult. Still going to get it for $5… once they fix GB iPad->mac compatibility, I can work on comps on the iPad, then open in Logic.

    I’m assuming if GB for Mac compatibility is broken then Logic is munged as well?

  • Crucible

    Same problem with export here! :-(

  • guest

    You can export to Logic, it imports fine. Curious, but true. Just doesn’t open in GarageBand yet.

    • http://www.loopinsight.com Jim Dalrymple

      Good catch!