This is very important, and I am prolonging doing the dishes on account of it.
I'm starting to experiment with recording on GarageBand, and am also currently playing around with a trial version of Amadeus II. I can do a lot with Amadeus but how do I take a file from that program and import it into GarageBand, for example if I wanted to add drum tracks or a bass or something? Can it be done? Or am I forsaking the dish-doing in vain?
for free/demo/shareware software to get an understanding of what you can get into.
I don't know how your brain works Carley, but mine had to learn one program before I ventured off into another. All that importing and exporting...doesn't anyone stay in one application anymore (sung to the melody of "So far away - Carole King ")
Whatever music you make in one program can be imported into another program most of the time.
If you make a drum groove or a bas line in GB. Export it from GB into iTunes (check GB menus for that function). Drag and drop from iTunes onto your desktop. Open up whatever prog. you're using and import the file on your desktop. You can import by dragging and dropping or just by looking in the file menus for something like 'Import' or 'Import audio file' or 'Import aiff' or anything like that.
Simply put, export as an audio file (aiff, wav, mp3) and import that file into your other program.
You can also export and import midi files but that's for another day. i think all you're looking to do is export and import audio files.