How Can I Transfer Songs Between Garageband for iOS and OS X?

Question

I have Garageband in iPad, iPhone and OS X. How can I transfer the music between them? I have enabled iCloud with iPad and iPhone but cannot understand how to get the music from there to OS X? I have tried iTunes and the file sharing option, but it is too slow, I am trying to find some faster way — I want that the sounds to be available between all of my devices without too many manual changes, hopefully automatically.

Basically: I create a song with the iPhone or iPad, I want it immediately available on OS X for processing, how to get it there?

Answer 1

I found a quicker way here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20126598#20126598

Basically, in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/XXXXX~com~apple~mobilegarageband you'll find the songs you've saved in iCloud from GarageBand on iOS.

Answer 2

First make sure you've got iCloud turned on in Garageband, by tapping the + icon when viewing all your songs. Then, for sending a song to iCloud, just:

1. Tap on the Edit button, and select all the songs you want.
2. You will now see an iCloud icon along the top bar. Tapping it, will prompt you to send the songs to iCloud.

Now, all uploaded songs to iCloud will have an iCloud logo on the top-right corner of the song thumbnail.

Opening Garageband with any other device, which has, too, iCloud enabled, will show a green arrow on the top-right corned of the songs which haven't yet been downloaded. Tapping the thumbnail will start the download.

Mind that, songs created with iOS's version of Garageband cannot be opened with the OS X application if it's the 6.0.1 or earlier version.