GarageBand project to WAV

Drop a GarageBand project to get a WAV, or select a file — it opens in the studio, ready to export.

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How to get a WAV out of a GarageBand project

You have a GarageBand project and something downstream wants audio — a collaborator in another DAW, a mix engineer, a submission form — and no Apple device to open it on. The package carries the arrangement and, usually, the recordings. Those are written out as they are; GarageBand's own instruments are not in the file, so their parts are played on stand-ins.

  1. Add your .band: A .band is a folder that Finder shows as a file: on a Mac choose it with "or choose a project folder", anywhere else drop a zip of it. Its arrangement is read in your browser through the Logic project reader, and the recordings inside the package play from your copy. No account is needed to open it.
  2. It renders by itself: The studio opens on the arrangement and starts the WAV straight away: recordings and audio loops from the package, software-instrument parts on stand-ins picked from their track names, rendered on our server from a General MIDI sound set.
  3. Download the WAV: One file of the whole arrangement lands in your downloads. Your first three a month need no account; a free account gives you 120. For stems, 32-bit float or a loop range, use File → Export audio….

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Questions about the GarageBand project to WAV converter?

We have answers.

Can I convert a GarageBand project to WAV without a Mac?

Yes — drop a zip of the .band here. Recordings come out as recorded; software-instrument parts are played on stand-in instruments.

Is it free? Do I need an account?

Your first three WAVs a month need no account, and opening the project needs none at all. A free account raises the renders to 120 a month.

Can I get stems?

Yes, for the tracks that carry audio: File → Export audio… → Stems writes each as its own WAV in a zip, lined up from zero. Stand-in parts come out in the mix only.

What bit depth and sample rate is the WAV?

24-bit when recordings are in the mix, 16-bit at 48 kHz when everything is a stand-in; File → Export audio… offers 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit float at 44.1 or 48 kHz.

Why are some regions silent?

They are Drummer regions, or loops GarageBand plays from its library rather than from the package. Recordings you made are in the package and play.

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  • What travels inside a .band, and what does not

    A GarageBand project is a package: the arrangement, and — for anything you recorded or dragged in — a Media folder holding the audio. Those come along and play as recorded, at their positions, on their named tracks. What does not travel is anything GarageBand makes live: its software instruments, Smart Instruments, Drummer, loops it plays from the library rather than from the package, the Smart Controls and effects. Software-instrument regions arrive as notes, and stand-ins picked from the track names play them; Drummer regions hold no notes and are not rendered.

  • Bit depth, stems, and what each file holds

    With recordings in the mix the WAV is written in your browser at 24-bit; a project that is all stand-ins comes from our server at 16-bit, 48 kHz, which is all General MIDI samples can fill. File → Export audio… writes 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit float at 44.1 or 48 kHz, the whole mix or a loop range, and Stems writes one WAV per track that carries audio, every file starting at the same zero. Stand-in parts are in the mix, not in the zip. The mix carries track gain, pan, region gain and fades; GarageBand's effects and automation are not rendered.

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