GarageBand → REAPER. Drop a zipped GarageBand .band project and get a native REAPER .rpp project — the real session rebuilt, not bounced to stems.
Full walkthrough: How to convert your session to another DAW
Every track, clip and note — rebuilt natively in REAPER, not flattened to stems.
Tracks with their names, levels and mutes; MIDI regions with every note exactly where it was played; audio regions with their files traveling in the project; tempo and time signature. GarageBand’s own instrument sounds don’t come with it — they live inside GarageBand, so each software-instrument track arrives with its notes and the name of the patch it used, and you choose the sound in REAPER. A looped region is placed once rather than looped, and Apple Loops that were never copied into the project arrive as offline clips. Automation and plugin chains aren’t promised on this pair yet. Nothing is silently dropped — every conversion comes with a report of what changed.
Local conversions stay right in your browser — your session never leaves your computer, nothing uploaded, nothing stored. Uploaded sessions move over an encrypted connection into your own private space, with access only you control, and yours to delete anytime.
Not as a native REAPER project — Doseedo converts it: upload your .band (a .band is a package — a folder macOS shows as one file — so zip it first: right-click it in Finder → Compress) and it rebuilds the project as a native REAPER .rpp project you can open and keep working in.
A .band is a package: a folder macOS shows as one file, which a browser can’t upload as it is. Right-click it in Finder, choose Compress, and upload the zip — the audio travels inside it. A project last saved by GarageBand 6 (’11) or earlier is an older format: open it in GarageBand 10 (or Logic Pro) on a Mac, save it, and zip that. A FILE named .band is something else — a FabFilter band preset, or a cloud drive’s zip of the package.
People describe the same job five ways — export GarageBand to REAPER, import a .band into REAPER, transfer the project, open a GarageBand project in REAPER — and none of it needs stems. Upload the .band and it converts to a native REAPER .rpp project with tracks, MIDI, audio and the tempo map intact.
Tracks with their names, levels and mutes; MIDI regions with every note exactly where it was played; audio regions with their files traveling in the project; tempo and time signature. GarageBand’s own instrument sounds don’t come with it — they live inside GarageBand, so each software-instrument track arrives with its notes and the name of the patch it used, and you choose the sound in REAPER. A looped region is placed once rather than looped, and Apple Loops that were never copied into the project arrive as offline clips. Automation and plugin chains aren’t promised on this pair yet.
GarageBand’s own instrument sounds don’t come with it — they live inside GarageBand, so each software-instrument track arrives with its notes and the name of the patch it used, and you choose the sound in REAPER. Nothing is faked: whatever doesn’t cross the GarageBand–REAPER boundary is named in the conversion report.
Logic Pro opens a GarageBand project itself — File › Open the .band and it upgrades on open — so there is nothing to convert. This page is for getting a GarageBand project into a DAW that can’t read it.
Your project is uploaded over an encrypted connection into your own private space, converted, and is yours to delete anytime.
3 conversions a month with no account; a free account gets 120 credits a month and Pro 2,000 (a conversion is 1 credit), every plan at full fidelity. No watermark, cancel in one click. One conversion is one project translated one direction; a round-trip is two.